by Brianna Crandall — December 12, 2012—Interior Design magazine recently announced its Best of Year product design winners and honorees, as selected via an online vote of the architecture and design community from among 660 residential and contract product and project submissions.
The 2012 winning products (excluding specifically residential categories) are:
- Accessories: General: Phillips Collection — Square Root6776
- Accessories: Office: Haworth — Belong
- Bath: Accessories and Hardware: Tubes Radiatori — Trame
- Bath: Cabinetry: Lacava — Giulia GA130
- Bath: Fittings: Dornbracht — Horizontal Shower
- Bath: Fixtures: Laufen — Palomba – Solid Surface Bath tub
- Building Products: Architectural Systems — Fusión Wood Panels
- Flooring: Carpet/Broadloom: Tandus Flooring — Needle Tech
- Flooring: Carpet/Modular: Interface — Walk the Plank
- Flooring: Carpet/Rugs: Warp & Weft — Kaleidoscope
- Flooring: Green: Interface — Urban Retreat
- Flooring: Hard: DuChateau Floors — Heritage Timber Edition
- Flooring: Tile and Stone: Artistic Tile — Estrella Mosaic
- Furniture: Contract/Desking and Systems: Tuohy Furniture Corporation — Coda Collection
- Furniture: Contract/Tables: Halcon — Mesa
- Furniture: Green: Emeco — Broom Chair
- Furniture: Healthcare/Furniture and Seating: Wieland — sleepToo
- Furniture: Outdoor/Lounge & Accessories: Sutherland — Hoofed Table
- Furniture: Outdoor/Seating: Kenneth Cobonpue — Cabaret High Back Sofa
- Furniture: Partitions and Wall System: 3form — Edge
- Hardware: Olson Kundig Architects — Tom Kundig Collection
- Kitchen: Appliances: Fagor America — Fagor Integrated Refrigerator
- Kitchen: Cabinetry: SieMatic Möbelwerke USA — FloatingSpaces
- Kitchen: Fittings: Moen — MotionSense by Moen
- Kitchen: Fixtures: Kohler Co. — Kohler Colors Featuring Jonathan Adler on the Kohler Whitehaven kitchen sink
- Lighting: Chandelier: Sand Studios — Rain
- Lighting: Controls: Lutron Electronics — Lutron Maestro occupancy/vacancy sensing switch
- Lighting: Floor and Sconce: FontanaArte — Yumi
- Lighting: Pendant: 3M Architectural Markets — Flex by 3M
- Lighting: Table: Kartell — Taj
- Seating: Contract/Conference: Keilhauer — Talk
- Seating: Contract/Guest: American Leather — Alyssa
- Seating: Contract/Lounge/single: OFS — Madrid
- Seating: Contract/Lounge/multiple: Knoll — The Lounge Collection by Pierre Beucler and Jean-Christophe Poggioli
- Seating: Contract/Task: OFS — Flexxy Swivel
- Textiles: Contract: cf stinson — The Cartouche Collection / Robert A.M. Stern for cf stinson
- Textiles: Green: cf stinson — The World Beat Collection
- Textiles: Healthcare: Momentum Textiles — Botanica Collection
- Textiles: Hospitality: Robert Allen Contract — Kirk Nix for Robert Allen Contract
- Textiles: Hospitality: Leather: Edelman Leather — Leather & Lace
- Textiles: Outdoor: Chella Textiles — Framework
- Wallcovering: Fabric: Weitzner — Cumulus
- Wallcovering: Other: Phillip Jeffries — Aviator
- Wallcovering: Tile and Stone: Ann Sacks — Ogassian, Japanese Geo
- Window Treatments — Conrad Shades: Conrad Original Sunshades — Midori – Weave No. 1774
Best of Year 2012 Project awards were selected in various segments of such categories as Education, Green, Health Care, Hospitality, Institutional, Office and Retail.
A full list of the Best of Year 2012 Winners & Honorees, as well as product and project finalists can be found on the magazine’s Web site. All winning products will also be included in a special section in the magazine’s December issue and in a hardbound book due out in spring 2013. A portion of ticket sales for the event was donated to the nonprofit Rebuilding Together NYC, to go towards repairing and rebuilding homes damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
