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Article: Chamber honors members March 6
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- Northbrook Star (IL)
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- February 28, 2008
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During any given week Mark Bernhard's Northbrook woodshed produces an elegant bar for a yacht docked in Florida or shelves on which imported leather boots will be displayed at New York City's Saks Fifth Avenue store. Bernhard Woodwork Ltd. has been cranking out custom woodwork in Northbrook for 30 years and its craftsmen are nationally known for producing old-world European-style furnishings.
Bernhard and his company's work will be recognized as the Small Business of the Year by the Northbrook Chamber of Commerce during its annual meeting March 6 at the Renaissance Chicago North Shore Hotel.
The business, started by Mark's father, Pete, in 1965, moved from Chicago to Northbrook's Sky Harbor ...