IIDA Illinois Chapter 2015 RED Awards
Last month the Illinois chapter of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) rolled out the red carpet at the Museum of Contemporary Art for its 2015 RED - Recognizing Exemplary Design – awards, recognizing the state’s best interior design. Cheryl Durst, Executive Vice President and CEO of the IIDA, led the ceremony that followed cocktails amongst the art.
Michelle Roberts Student Award Winner (Annual Michelle Roberts Student Award 114): "Today is a Good Day" Design Team, Harrington College of Design. Photo courtesy of Harrington College of Design.
“Great design should be shared, viewed, and appreciated by everyone in the industry. It is also a source of creative inspiration,” said Mindi DeVries, Interior Designer at Harley Ellis Devereaux and co-chair of the RED awards committee. “By submitting a project for consideration in the RED Awards, Illinois design firms have an opportunity to showcase their projects in a wide variety of categories, with a chance to be recognized as one of the finest projects of that year.”
“Illinois wants to recognize the creative projects that firms in our state are completing and show them off,” said Jane Kielb, IIDA, IDEC, Assistant Professor and Interior Design Program Coordinator, College of DuPage. Keilb, the event’s other co-chair, is IIDA Chicago’s President-Elect.
Retail (IIDA 2015 RED Retail): Hunter Kaiser: Creative for Life. Photo courtesy of Hunter Kaiser.
Seeking projects that exemplify “a unique solution to a design problem executed in the most creative way”, said DeVries, 2015 judges considered more than 50 entries submitted by more than 24 Illinois-based design firms and schools.
The Michelle Roberts Student Award, given to the best student work, went to the “Today is a Good Day” team from Harrington College of Design for its DIFFA's Dining by Design 2014 project. Three other design schools were in competition: College of DuPage, Columbia College Chicago, and Illinois State University.
Other 2015 RED winners include Hunter Kaiser, for its Chicago Luxury Beds retail project, and bKL Architecture for its GEMS World Academy Lower School education project.
Educational | PK12 (Educational PK12 101): bKL Architecture LLC. Photo courtesy of bKL Architecture LLC.
2015 is the third year RED awards have been given, and the first year for the Emerging Professional award. Recognizing a lead designer or architect with less than five years of professional experience at the time of project completion, the inaugural award was given to Vara Design, which won for its work on Bow & Stern Oyster Bar, a restaurant that closed in December after a year in operation.
Emerging Professional (Contract Small 101): VARA Design. Photo courtesy of VARA Design.
“There are so many fine projects submitted that our judges have a daunting task to choose a winner,” said Kielb. Submissions for RED 2016 will open in the fall.
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