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3/13/2024

2024 First place winners Valente Zambrano (left) for Furnishings Design Leila Nathan (proper) for Inside Design.

The Bienenstock Furnishings Library (BFL) names the 2024 winners of its annual scholar design competitions for furnishings and inside design, awarding a complete of $15,000 to the highest performers and their faculties.

For this 12 months’s Dudley Moore, Sr. Furnishings Design Competitors, college students submitted an unique design for a chair that’s appropriate for advertising and marketing to both or each residential and contract commerce trade segments. The competitors standards states that designs must be aesthetically pleasing and likewise appropriate for manufacturing inside the monetary and technical constraints of mass manufacturing.

Within the furnishings design competitors, the library acquired 50 entries from seven schools, together with the College of Houston, Pratt Institute, Purdue College, Savannah Faculty of Artwork & Design, Appalachian State College, Drexel College, and Kansas State College.

Judges for this class included acknowledged furnishings designers Dudley Moore, Jr., Otto & Moore Inc.; Scott Coley, D. Scott Coley Designs, LLC; Danny Davis, Davis Furnishings; Royale Wiggin, Thayer Coggins; Richard Frinier, Taylor West, West Design Group; and Catina Roscoe, Catina Limitless.

Valente Zambrano, a furnishings design scholar on the College of Houston acquired first place recognition and a $5,000 money award for his chair design, LUNDA. “The emotion I wished to convey by means of my design was peacefulness, a scarce factor on this planet,” mentioned Zambrano. “I wished individuals to take a look at this as a haven to go to after an extended day, unwind and let go of life’s issues.” 

In honor of the primary place winner’s house faculty, Professor Jeff Feng will settle for his division’s money prize of $1000.00.

Pratt Institute scholar Liam Monaghan was awarded second place and a $1500 money prize for his venture entitled R-CHAIR. 

For the 2024 Barbour Spangle Inside Design Competitors, inside design college students had been tasked to design a Skybox for a serious music recording firm. The luxurious skybox will likely be utilized by the corporate’s recording artists when they’re on the town. College students included the music firm’s brand and model identification into the design of the area and selected the points of the corporate’s musical type. The area wanted to include sustainable furnishings, supplies and finishes wherever attainable and reinforce the posh message.

The library acquired 30 entries from seven completely different schools, together with  Savannah Faculty of Artwork & Design, Randolph Group Faculty, Forsyth Technical Group Faculty, Pittsburg State College, Western Carolina College, Virginia Tech, and Saddleback Faculty.

The seasoned professionals judging for this 12 months’s inside design competitors included Christi Spangle and Bri Verstat, Barbour Spangle Design; Holly Woodward, Woodward Home of Design; Elizabeth Scruggs, Superior Development and Design; Monika Nessbach, Design Bar;. Kara Cox, Kara Cox Designs; Stephanie Walker and Lisa Woods, Crimson Design Group; Jillian O’Neill, and Jessica Alpert, Gensler. 

The primary place prize of $5,000 was awarded to Leila Nathan of Saddleback Faculty for her design venture, Entendre. 

“The skybox idea was impressed by the variety and duality of Different Indie music, whereas incorporating hidden design particulars reflective of the file label’s identify, Entendré,” mentioned Nathan. “To pay homage to the music style’s fascination with the previous, I mixed luxurious supplies with classic items alongside textured partitions and sculptural lighting fixtures for a putting and surprising juxtaposition of components.”

The younger designer expressed due to her professor, Farida Gabdrakhmanova, who added, “Leila’s mastery in dealing with supplies, colours, and textures introduced a outstanding depth and richness to her venture, showcasing her distinctive expertise and creativity.”

On behalf of the college’s design division, Gabdrakhmanova accepted the award for $1,000.

Savannah Faculty of Artwork & Design scholar Aneesha Dama acquired second place recognition and a $1500 money prize for her venture, Symphony. The primary place successful venture briefs could also be seen on the Bienenstock Furnishings Library web site.

On the finish of final 12 months, collaborating college students submitted their ultimate initiatives for consideration within the 2024 Bienenstock Furnishings Library’s Design Competitors. Venture work sometimes happens within the fall semester of the junior or senior 12 months main as much as the winter submission deadline for the annual occasion. Graduate college students are additionally eligible for participation. 

Judging happens on scores of 1 to 5 within the following classes: design temporary, ideation thumbnails, design aesthetic, originality, useful side, feasibility and general presentation.

Concerning the Bienenstock Furnishings Library


The Bernice Bienenstock Furnishings Library is a worldwide heart for analysis, design, and collaboration.  It holds the world’s largest assortment of uncommon and vital books on the historical past and design of furnishings, with greater than 5,000 volumes.
The Library is positioned in Excessive Level, NC and is open to members of the house furnishings trade, college students and most of the people. The Library was based in 1970 with an endowment from Furnishings World Journal and the Bienenstock household. It’s supported by a board of administrators from almost each side of the house furnishings trade. It’s dedicated to the development of information about design, furnishings, interiors, structure, textiles, finishes, and constructions.
The Library’s uncommon e-book assortment incorporates volumes revealed since 1543. A particular climate-controlled room homes these uncommon volumes. It’s a treasure trove of inspiration for anybody thinking about house furnishings and inside design.  
The Library’s amenities embody the Vuncannon Seminar Room, the high-tech Hadley Court docket Middle for Design Collaboration and the Pat Plaxico Sculpture Gardens.  These areas can be found for seminars, courses, occasions, conferences, design collaborations, networking and design retreats for a small honorarium.
For extra info go to www.furniturelibrary.com or contact Karla Webb, Library Director at information@furniturelibrary.com or 336-883-4011.