NEW CHAPTER

Liu-Kanter, a native of Taiwan, had an inkling her future would also revolve around art and design because she was so entranced by the blueprints her father, a general contractor, frequently brought home. During his childhood in Illinois and Michigan, Rooney-who, encouraged by Liu-Kanter, made the leap to JBI in 2003-pored over builder magazines, reveled in his mother's bedroom pencil murals, and began drawing floorplans at a young age. In 2023, on their last trip together to Vancouver, Rooney and Beers had such a good time dining at Jean-Georges Vongerichten's Paris Café at the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport in New York, they missed their flight.