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GINETTE
GADOURY
 Biography
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 Ginette
Gadoury, President and co-founder of
the Montréal International Interior
Design Show (SIDIM), recognized for
her contribution to promoting design,
wins this award hands down.
Montréal interior design would not be what it is today without the priceless
contribution made by the founder of the ever-popular Décormag,
the very first magazine dedicated to interior design to be published in Canada.
The publication's arrival on the market heralded the beginning of Quebec's magazine
industry. Ginette Gadoury managed the publication from 1972 to 1985, the year
she presided over the final Salon Via Design.
After studying applied arts and attending Montréal's École des
hautes études commerciales, Ginette Gadoury started by opening a design
consulting firm. In 1986, she founded the Centre Info Design and in 1988, she
created Interface Design, a firm dedicated to promoting Quebec design, and Médiathèque
du Design, a non-profit corporation for organizing design educational events.
In 1989, she became president and general director of the "Montreal Kitchen
and Bath Show". That same year, working with the Société des
décorateurs-ensembliers du Québec (SDEQ), she founded SIDIM, which
she still presides over today.
Returning to the publishing world in 1996, she founded intérieurs,
an informative, networking magazine for design professionals, their partners
and their business clients. In 2000, she launched extérieurs,
specifically for professionals in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture
and urban planning, their partners and potential clients.
Besides organizing and participating in many missions abroad over the course
of her career, Ginette Gadoury has also held an impressive number of positions
in the design, cultural and business communities. She was President of the National
Design Council and sat on the board of directors of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan
Montreal, the Centre des dirigeants d’entreprise, the Société de
développement des industries culturelles du Québec and the Musées
nationaux du Québec. She was also a member of the "1% Committee" for
the provincial policy on integrating arts.
Even now, Madame Gadoury maintains her involvement in a variety of organizations.
She sits on the Board of Directors of Editextil, a digital fabric printing research
and design centre, and of Locoshop Angus. She is also an honorary member of Interior
Designers of Canada (IDC), of the Association professionnelle des designers d’intérieur
du Québec (APDIQ) and of the Association des designers industriels du
Québec (ADIQ). |
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