HIGH POINT — Increasing what it calls the “Academy Awards of the design trade, the International Society of Furniture Designers has added a brand new finishings class to its 2024 Pinnacle Awards.
“We’re excited to announce that we’ve added a brand new Finishings class to our Pinnacle Awards line up,” mentioned David Blair, ISFD govt director. “For designers, the end of a product is likely one of the most vital components of design. Due to the exigencies of the manufacturing course of and variations in woods of the identical species from completely different tons, getting even a simple-looking end to look nice is usually a difficult course of. And, on the greater finish of the market, the individuals who apply the finishes are actual artists, typically taking many days and a number of layers of coatings and distressing to attain the specified impact.
“In brief, it’s vital, it’s sophisticated, it’s a necessary a part of the artistic design course of, and we need to acknowledge the gifted skilled designers who do it properly.”
The twenty eighth annual Pinnacle Awards are open to all furnishings and textile designers in addition to producers who’re immediately concerned in designing residence furnishings, décor or textile merchandise accessible for retail sale within the final 12 months. College students who’re at present enrolled in or graduated within the final 12 months from an accredited furnishings or industrial design program could enter the Student Pinnacle Awards.
“One other change to this 12 months’s Pinnacle Awards is within the value factors for Broad Enchantment and Luxurious Bed room, Eating, Leather-based Upholstery and Stationary Upholstery,” Blair mentioned. “We up to date these to replicate present pricing ranges.”
The 27 Pinnacle Awards classes for 2024 are:
- Equipment – Any ground standing ornamental accent like sculpture, massive planters or vases, screens, pedestals, carts, and so forth. Entry could also be by piece or group.
- Bed room Broad Enchantment – Headboards, mirrors, nightstands, chests, dressers, and different storage models meant primarily for bed room use. Entry will be bed room piece or group. Advised retail for a four-piece group have to be beneath $5500.
- Bed room Luxurious – Headboards, mirrors, nightstands, chests, dressers, and different storage models meant primarily for bed room use. Entry will be bed room piece or group. Advised retail for a four-piece group have to be $5500 or extra.
- Eating Broad Enchantment – Entry have to be a bunch of at the very least one desk and one mannequin of chair. Advised retail for a five-piece group of 1 desk and 4 chairs have to be lower than $3750.
- Eating Luxurious – Entry have to be a bunch of at the very least one desk and one mannequin of chair. Advised retail for a five-piece group of 1 desk and 4 chairs have to be $3750 for extra.
- Leisure Furnishings – Entries on this class embrace particular person or a number of models (groupings) that accommodate audio/video elements.
- Finishings – Contains any residence furnishings merchandise to which a end is utilized, excluding textiles. Merchandise entered in different classes may additionally be entered in Finishings. Judges will take into account solely the end.
- Ground Coverings – Rugs
- Residence Workplace – Contains desks, seating, and storage meant for residence workplace by combining workplace performance with model and sizing appropriate for residence use. Entry is usually a piece or a bunch.
- Residence Textiles – Print – Textiles designed for residence furnishings, primarily upholstered furnishings. Entry could also be display or digital prints launched throughout the final 12 months. Entries are restricted to 1 per designer and one colorway per entry.
- Residence Textiles – Woven – Textiles designed for residence furnishings, primarily upholstered furnishings. Entry could also be jacquards or dobby wovens launched throughout the final 12 months. Entries are restricted to 1 per designer and one colorway per entry.
- Leather-based Upholstery – Broad Enchantment – Contains furnishings, both movement or stationary, predominantly coated in leather-based. Advised retail value have to be beneath $2500 per seat.
- Leather-based Upholstery – Luxurious – Contains furnishings, both movement or stationary, predominantly coated in leather-based. Advised retail value have to be above $2500 per seat
Lighting – Contains incandescent or LED mounted lighting meant for indoor residence use, together with desk lamps, ground lamps, pendants, and chandeliers. Entry is usually a piece or a bunch.
Main Collections – Entry have to be a complete residence assortment of at the very least 18 distinctive items. Upholstery, lighting, or equipment will be included solely as a part of the gathering. - Maker/Designer – This class is for builders/makers creating one-of-a-kind items on the market in galleries, shops and or client-specific merchandise. Makers ought to have an impartial 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 out of doors use.
Movement Upholstery – Contains items that transfer to regulate the posture and luxury of the particular person seated. Entry will be made by piece or group.
Occasional Storage – Occasional furnishings meant for residence use whose major perform is storage, not together with leisure or residence theater furnishings. Entry will be by piece or group. - Occasional Tables – Broad Enchantment – 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. Advised retail value have to be beneath $500.
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. Advised retail value have to be above $500.
Out of doors – Tables, chairs and different furnishings designed primarily for out of doors or leisure-time settings equivalent to sunrooms, porches, patios, or atriums.
Stationary Upholstery – Broad Enchantment – Contains upholstered items with transferring trays, cabinets, and so forth., so long as the motion doesn’t have an effect on the posture of the particular person seated. Entry will be particular person items or group. Advised retail value have to be beneath $2,000 per seat. - Stationary Upholstery – Luxurious – Can embrace upholstered items with transferring trays, cabinets, and so forth., if the motion doesn’t have an effect on the posture of the particular person seated. Entry will be particular person items or group. Advised retail value have to be at the very least $2,000 per seat.
- Wall Décor – Residence furnishings that connect to or dangle 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.
- Youth – Toddler and juvenile bed room furnishings together with beds, kids’s room equipment, and storage. Entry will be a person piece or a bunch.
- The Inexperienced Leaf Award Subcategory – Merchandise that meet probably the most discerning design requirements whereas additionally assembly a legitimately eco-friendly profile. See software for extra particulars.
- Scholar Pinnacle Award – Any bed room, eating, occasional, residence workplace, textiles, seating, or leisure class piece chosen from the scholar’s physique of labor. Go to student guidelines for entry type and extra info.
Winners will likely be introduced on the annual Pinnacle Awards Gala held Oct. 28 through the fall Excessive Level Market. Deadline to enter is July 26.
Submission particulars will be discovered at 2024 Pinnacle Awards and 2024 Student Pinnacle Awards.
The 2024 Pinnacle Awards sponsors embrace: Platinum degree: ANDMORE, Silver degree: Excessive Level Market Authority, Bronze degree: Continental {Hardware}, Furnishings Design Studios, Lockdowel, and Sherwin-Williams; Company Companion/Business provider: Canadian Wooden; and Business companions: Designers Today, Parts Studios, Furniture Today and IFDA. Additionally, because of Worldwide Textile Alliance for its continued assist.
See additionally: See the 21 designs that won 2023’s Pinnacle Awards
