INTERIOR DESIGN COMMEMORATES INDUSTRY’S BEST OF 2006
Best of Year and Roscoe Award Winners Announced at Inaugural Event

New York, NY – December 13, 2006 -- El Greco and Pablo Picasso weren’t the only stars at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum November 30. Circulating among works by the master painters inside Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic structure were some 800 members of the international A&D community, convening to celebrate the winners of Interior Design’s Best of Year and Roscoe Awards.

Directly on the heels of the magazine’s Hall of Fame, which packed the Waldorf-Astoria’s grand ballroom with a record attendance of more than 1,500 people on November 29 and inducted Rand Elliott, Sergio Palleroni, Gaetano Pesce, Annabelle Selldorf, and Paul Siskin, the back-to-back events, says editor in chief Cindy Allen, “galvanized the design community—enabling us to honor the trifecta: people, projects, and products.”

“I’ve been on countless juries yet I don’t think I’ve been on one that had such a selection of A-listers opposite A-listers,” continues Allen. Winners were selected by some 25,000 online votes, qualified by title, October 17 – November 1, 2006.

“It was so magical to celebrate design in the Guggenheim, it’s such an inspiring place,” recalls BOY residential apartment winner Lee Mindel of Shelton, Mindel & Associates. “The evening allowed for cross-hybridization between areas of the industry that usually never interact, and Interior Design continues to bring pride to the industry.” In addition to pride, the event also raised money for the Council for Interior Design Accreditation.