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Furniture Style presented its Desert Star Award at the Winter 2008 Las Vegas Market. The award honors a single designer or design team whose work exhibits consistent commitment to innovation.
Furniture Style Announces
2008 A.D.I. Awards Winners
On Jan. 28, six Las Vegas Market exhibitors received top honors in the third edition of the A.D.I. Awards—Advancing Design & Innovation design competition.
Furniture Style and World Market Center in Las Vegas are proud to announce the winners of the third edition of the A.D.I. Awards--Advancing Design & Innovation, a design competition for Las Vegas Market exhibitors.
Custom-designed A.D.I. trophies were presented on Jan. 28, to six home furnishings manufacturers in six categories: Accent, Materials, Home Solutions, Major Collection, Original Design/Creativity and Desert Star, a category for designers.
All A.D.I. entries were evaluated on a variety of criteria by a panel of judges comprised of representatives from furniture retailers such as Gates Home Furnishings, Blue Tomatoes Furniture, Wickes Furniture and Arhaus Furniture and a professor of art and design at Kendall College in Grand Rapids, MI.
The winner and finalists in each category are:
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Accent Award
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WINNER:
1. Magnussen Home, Lakefield sofa table
FINALISTS:
2. Levels of Discovery, Best of Buds storage seat3. Four Hands, Whitman coffee table
Materials Award
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WINNER:
1. Four Hands, Remington
FINALISTS:
2. Brownstone, Inc., Campaign Collection3. David Francis Furniture, C0160 Bordeaux lounge chair
Home Solution Award
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WINNER:
1. Kathy Ireland Home by Martin, Tribeca loft console
FINALISTS:
2. SolaraHome Inc., Mistral home theater/media sofa3. Riverside Furniture, Cobble Hill computer table
Major Collections Award
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WINNER:
1. Sitcom, Audrey Collection
FINALISTS:
2. Zocalo, Terraza Collection3. Alphaville, Istill Collection
Original Design/Creativity Award
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WINNER:
1. Scandinavian Collection, Brighthandle
FINALISTS:
2. Powell Co., LittleMissMatched youth furniture3. Levels of Discovery, Alphabet Soup Collection
Desert Star Award
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WINNER:
1. David Francis Furniture, David Francis
FINALISTS:
2. aspenhome, Jena Hall, Andy Nielsen, David Blum, Stephanie Lena and Brent Camfferman3. Zocalo, Margaret Leigh and Jorge Jaramillo
Who We Are
The A.D.I. Awards—Advancing Design & Innovation is an annual home furnishings awards program produced by Furniture Style magazine and the World Market Center.
Furniture Style is the leading business-to-business source for product news, fashion forecasts and consumer shopping trends.
World Market Center
is a new showcase for the home and hospitality contract furnishings industry, located in downtown Las Vegas.