After 21 years as a principal and partner at Kansas City's Contract Furnishings Rents LLC, Jean-Paul Wong is leaving his shared space with Contract Furnishings Inc. and moving in a new direction.
Wong founded Contract Furnishings Rents in 1996 with Stephen Stroade, who also founded Contract Furnishings Inc. in 1989 and is its sole owner. The two companies used the same space, but were separate entities.
Wong bought out Stroade's interest in Contract Furnishings Rents in 2015 and rebranded it as Pure Workplace Solutions earlier this year. He's now focusing on keeping pace with workplace trends.
"I found the need to look at things a little bit differently. The marketplace was changing, and I wanted to look at furniture as less of a commodity and focus on good design," Wong told the Kansas City Business Journal.