10 Show-Stopping Best of Year Product Winners

In case you haven’t heard… submissions are open for Interior Design‘s Best of Year Awards—the design industry’s premiere design awards program honoring work by designers, architects, and manufacturers around the globe. Be sure to submit your top products and projects by September 7, 2022, or sooner! Early bird pricing ends August 12. In case you’re looking for a bit of inspiration, we compiled 10 product winners from last year.

Transition Carpet Collection by Ege Carpets

Winner for Modular Carpet

WireLine by Flos

Winner for Chandelier

OutLand by Ralph Pucci

Winner for Residential Occasional Tables

Big Talk by Blå Station thru Scandinavian Spaces

Winner for Contract Lounge Seating

Shibui by Paola Lenti thru West | Out East

Winner for Outdoor Seating

Garden District by Artistic Tile

Winner for Materials

Levels by Hightower

Winner for Contract Bench + Stool

Hortensia by Moooi

Winner for Residential Lounge Seating

Decors and Panoramiques by Arte

Winner for Fabric Wall Covering

Designtex Crypton Pure by Crypton & Designtex

Winner for Healthcare Textiles

Interested in submitting products or projects for this year’s Best of Year Awards? Get submission details here.

A Look Back at 10 Best of Year Project Winners from 2021

Don’t miss out on an opportunity to submit your top products and projects for Interior Design‘s Best of Year Awards—the design industry’s premiere design awards program honoring work by designers, architects, and manufacturers around the globe—by September 7, 2022, or sooner! Early bird pricing ends August 12. To gear up for the upcoming awards, here is a look at 10 project winners from last year.

TriBeCa Apartment by Enze Architects

Winner for Small Apartment

The Londoner by Yabu Pushelberg

Winner for Boutique Hotel

Early Childhood Authority by Roar

Winner for Small Corporate Office

Valle San Nicolas by Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos

Winner for Beauty/Spa

Lunar by Sò Studio

Winner for Hospitality – Casual Dining

Bay Area Discovery Museum by Olson Kundig

Winner for Kids’ Zone

David Yurman 57th Street by Gabellini Sheppard Associates

Winner for Small Retail

Aktion Mensch Headquarters by Ippolito Fleitz Group

Winner for Social Impact

Bamboo Canopy by LLLab.

Winner for Outdoor Space

Alchemy by Studio Paolo Ferrari

Winner for Dispensary

Interested in submitting projects or products for this year’s Best of Year Awards? Get submission details here.

Interior Design’s Best of Year 2022 Submissions Now Open

Summer is in full swing, but it’s never too early to start thinking about Interior Design‘s Best of Year Awards, especially since there’s an extra incentive to submit sooner than later this year (lower submission fees if you get yours in by August 12)! The 17th annual ceremony, which spotlights the most innovative and noteworthy design achievements—and creatives—around the globe will be hosted by editor in chief Cindy Allen and live-streamed as part of DesignTV by SANDOW later this year. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to submit now through September 7!

Check out our submission guidelines and eligibility below.

Products: All must have been introduced between September 2021 and September 2022. Products/collections may be entered into one or more categories. Products may be entered into one or more categories.

Projects: All must have been completed between September 2021 and September 2022 (with the exception of the “on the boards” category, reserved for in-progress projects). Projects may be entered into one or more categories.

Student products: Open to products launched or exhibited, either in conjunction with a class or a (virtual) show. Submitters must be graduate or undergraduate students enrolled in accredited design programs globally. Student submissions have a dedicated submission form here.

Eligible product designs include: accessories, architectural products, fabric, furniture, kitchen and bath, lighting, and wall covering. Products and projects that have been previously awarded or published are not excluded from entry.

We look forward to seeing your exciting submissions for standout products, projects, people, and students in the A&D community!

EARLY-BIRD SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 12, 2022

Mark Dewalt, Principal of Valerio Dewalt Train, Dies at 70

A longtime collaborator with the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, Dewalt carried out multiple projects over the years starting with the renovation of the first and second floors in the late ’80s. In later years, he led a design team in creating Art on theMART, a permanent projection system that lights up the 2.5-acre river-facing facade of theMART building with large-scale visuals including splashes of rainbow hues.

More recently, Dewalt and Valerio collaborated on the Ford Calumet Environmental Center in Chicago’s Big Marsh park, an Interior Design Best of Year Award winner for Environmental Impact. Dewalt also has made lasting contributions to Chicago’s local architecture through a variety of redevelopment and renovation projects, including the $20-million renovation of the former Chicago Title & Trust Building, a designated National Historic Landmark; multiple projects for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and creation of Live Nation’s performance pavilion on Chicago’s Northerly Island.

A founding member and past president of the Chicago Construction and Real Estate Council of the City of Hope, Dewalt also served on the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Architecture Alumni Board and acted as a guest critic of student work there. In addition, he was a member of the American Institute of Architects and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Restoration Committee in Oak Park, Illinois.

Dewalt is survived by his wife Gail, and daughters Jessica and Kara Dewalt.

Francesco Rota Creates an Imaginative Swinging Platform for Paola Lenti

Shibui means unobtrusive beauty in Japanese, and this suspended perch lives up to that moniker. Winner of Interior Design‘s Best of Year Outdoor Seating category, the airborne platform by Italian interior and product designer Francesco Rota for Paola Lenti is made of minimally treated bamboo poles conjoined with jute straps to form a flat, no-frills seat—think a raft cobbled together by an intrepid adventurer. Stainless-steel cables, clamps, and carabiners secure the swing to a ceiling or a beam. For comfort, add a polyurethane-foam seat pad or a quilt padded with paineira vegetable fiber and upholstered in linen or hemp fabric. For those who prefer to keep their feet on terra firma, there’s also a daybed option propped on steel legs. Through West | Out East.

Perkins&Will Takes Home a Best of Year Award for Nemesis Coffee in Vancouver, Canada

2021 Best of Year winner for Hospitality – Coffee Counter

Comprising 10 petals of CNC-cut laminated timber clad in cherry-hued composite-aluminum shingles, this pavilion, an existing structure by Perkins&Will, is round in plan. After leasing it, Nemesis Coffee contacted the firm to design the 2,000-square-foot interior. The space “always wanted to be a coffee house,” senior associate Rufina Wu suggests. But the fit-out required finesse. “With our strongly sculptural building, the inside had to reference the architecture—and complement it.” Hence the feature ceiling element in which fins of white fabric stretch from a central oculus out toward the perimeter. LED strips spill soft light through the diffusing textile vanes for an effect that’s organic and calming while also echoing the exterior petals. The muted materials palette—glass, stainless steel, pale woods—creates a warm environment even on the city’s grayest days. Faced with pandemic supply-chain hiccups, the firm relied on a hometown fabricator for the curved birch-plywood paneling and a circular high table, its center planted with a tree. A stainless-steel bar slices through the middle of the plan, dividing the seating from the kitchen and service areas. Above, a continuous glass divider modulates from clear (for display cases) to reflective (concealing restrooms). “It reveals exactly what should be revealed,” Wu says, “and hides the rest.”

Perkins&Will: Ryan Bragg; Yehia Madkour; Rufina Wu; Mira Yung; Fargol Moshiri; Joanne Wong; Mahdiar Ghaffarian