ISFD Opens 2023 Pinnacle Awards® For Submissions

The preeminent recognition for house furnishings design returns for the twenty seventh yr as ISFD, the Worldwide Society of Furnishings Designers, opens entries for the 2023 Pinnacle Awards. Skilled and pupil product designers can enter now by way of July 27^th.  Thought-about the trade’s highest design honor, the Pinnacle Awards are open to all furnishings and textile designers, producers and college students who’re immediately concerned in designing house furnishings, décor, or textile merchandise accessible for retail sale within the final yr. Twenty-six product classes, masking each luxurious and broad enchantment merchandise, are included this yr. Winners can be introduced on the annual Pinnacle Awards Gala held on Monday, October 16, 2023, through the fall Excessive Level Market.

“Our annual Pinnacle Awards rejoice the final word in nice house furnishings and textile design and honor the very gifted individuals who created them,” acknowledged David Blair, government director of ISFD. “Annually we sit up for seeing the brand new concepts in type, operate, type, and supplies that may set the longer term route of our house furnishing developments.”

The Pinnacle Awards are meant to applaud designs which might be produced principally in bigger numbers on the market to shoppers. The recipient of the extremely coveted Pinnacle Award is the designer or designers who had been immediately concerned within the “design craft” of the product(s). The gadgets or collections entered have to be in present manufacturing and should have been proven and bought at one of many main house furnishings or cloth markets worldwide.

The 26 Pinnacle Awards classes for 2023:

• Wall Décor – House furnishings that connect to or cling on the wall together with however not restricted to wall mirrors, wall décor, clocks. Doesn’t embrace wall artwork, work, or prints. Entry could also be by piece or group.

• Flooring Coverings – Rugs

• Equipment – Any ground standing ornamental accent like sculpture, massive planters or vases, screens, pedestals, carts, and many others. Entry could also be by piece or group.

• Bed room Luxurious – Headboards, mirrors, nightstands, chests, dressers, and different storage models meant primarily for bed room use. Entry might be bed room piece or group. Prompt retail for a four-piece group have to be above $3000.

• Bed room Broad Attraction – Headboards, mirrors, nightstands, chests, dressers, and different storage models meant primarily for bed room use. Entry might be bed room piece or group Prompt retail for a four-piece group have to be under $3000.

• Eating Luxurious – Entry have to be a bunch of not less than one desk and one mannequin of chair; advised retail for a five-piece group of 1 desk and 4 chairs of above $3000.

• Eating Broad Attraction – Entry have to be a bunch of not less than one desk and one mannequin of chair; ; advised retail for a five-piece group of 1 desk and 4 chairs of under $3000.

• Leisure Furnishings – Entries on this class embrace particular person or a number of models (groupings) that accommodate audio/video parts.

• House Workplace – Consists of desks, seating, and storage meant for house workplace by combing workplace performance with type and sizing appropriate for house use. Entry could be a piece or a bunch. 

• House Textiles – Woven – Textiles designed for house furnishings, primarily upholstered furnishings. Entry could also be jacquards or dobby wovens launched throughout the final yr.  Entries are restricted to 1 per designer and one colorway per entry.

• House Textiles – Print– Textiles designed for house furnishings, primarily upholstered furnishings. Entry could also be display or digital prints launched throughout the final yr.  Entries are restricted to 1 per designer and one colorway per entry.

• Leather-based Upholstery – Luxurious – Consists of furnishings, both movement or stationary, predominantly lined in leather-based. Prompt retail value have to be above $5,000. 

• Leather-based Upholstery – Broad Attraction– Consists of furnishings, both movement or stationary, predominantly lined in leather-based. Prompt retail value have to be under $5,000. 
  Maker/Designer – This class is for builders/makers creating one-of-a-kind items on the market in galleries, shops and or consumer particular merchandise. Makers ought to have an unbiased enterprise offering design and construct providers for customized furnishings and equipment of their native market. This contains wooden and combined materials case items, occasional items, seating, upholstery, and equipment for each indoor and outside use. 

• Lighting – Consists of incandescent or LED fastened lighting meant for indoor house use, together with desk lamps, ground lamps, pendants, and chandeliers. Entry could be a piece or a bunch. 

• Main Collections – Entry have to be an entire house assortment of not less than 18 distinctive items. Upholstery, lighting, or equipment might be included solely as a part of the gathering. 

• Movement Upholstery – Consists of items that transfer to regulate the posture and luxury of the particular person seated. Entry might be made by piece or group. 

• Occasional Storage -Occasional furnishings meant for house use whose main operate is storage, not together with leisure or house theater furnishings. Entry might be by piece or group.

• Occasional Tables – Luxurious – An open piece of furnishings with a flat high and a number of legs or helps offering a degree floor on which objects could also be positioned. Prompt retail value have to be above $500.

• Stationary Upholstery – Luxurious – Can embrace upholstered items with shifting trays, cabinets, and many others., so long as the motion doesn’t have an effect on the posture of the particular person seated. Entry might be particular person items or group. Prompt retail value have to be not less than $2,000. 

• Stationary Upholstery – Broad Attraction -Consists of upholstered items with shifting trays, cabinets, and many others., so long as the motion doesn’t have an effect on the posture of the particular person seated. Entry might be particular person items or group. Prompt retail value have to be under $2,000. 

• Out of doors – Tables, chairs and different furnishings designed primarily for outside or leisure-time settings resembling sunrooms, porches, patios, or atriums.

• Pupil Pinnacle Award – Any bed room, eating, occasional, house workplace, textiles, seating, or leisure class piece chosen from the scholar’s physique of labor. Go to pupil tips for entry type and extra info.

ISFD want to thank the 2023 Pinnacle Awards sponsors: Platinum Sponsor: Worldwide Market Facilities, Silver Sponsor: Excessive Level Market Authority, Bronze Sponsors: Continental {Hardware}, Furnishings Design Studios, Leggett & Platt and Sherwin-Williams together with companions Components Studios, and Furnishings At this time. Additionally, because of Excessive Level College and the Worldwide Textile Alliance (ITA) for his or her continued assist.

Submission particulars might be discovered at 2023 Pinnacle Awards. To see final yr’s winners please go to 2022 ISFD Pinnacle Award Winners.  Entry deadline is July 27, 2023.

About ISFD

The Worldwide Society of Furnishings Designers (ISFD) is an affiliation {of professional} and pupil furnishings designers in residential and contract furnishings and equipment. Its mission is to advertise and advance excellent design and to raise and assist the furnishings designer by way of networking, mentorship, {and professional} improvement alternatives. Its Pinnacle Awards® acknowledge the easiest in furnishings design every year, and its INNOVATION + DESIGN awards promote the excellent work of designer–makers. Go to ISFD.org for extra details about the group and its applications, or observe its actions on Instagram, Fb, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter.