ASFD announced that it is now accepting submissions for the 16th Annual ASFD Pinnacle™ Design Achievement Awards. The deadline for Pinnacle entries is June 1, 2011. Entry forms and supplemental information are available now at www.asfd.com/Pinnacle Awards/Downloads.
“The Pinnacle™ Awards provide us the opportunity of recognizing the work of talented designers, and are a great way for our industry to honor companies which support and encourage originality of thought and design innovation", says ASFD president, Dudley Moore, Jr., of Otto & Moore, Inc. in High Point.
"The addition of the Green Leaf Award in 2010 took the Pinnacles to another level, where sustainable design became synonymous with good design. The Pinnacles truly do represent what is best about our industry,” said Moore.
Furniture/Today continues as the major underwriter of the Pinnacle™ Awards. The 2011 Pinnacle sponsors are AF Lighting, Continental Brass, EarthCare Inside, Furniture Design Studios, High Point Market Authority, Hickory Springs Mfg. Co., Home Furnishings Business, IHFC, Leggett & Platt Inc., Market Square & Suites and The Sherwin-Williams Co.
A stellar panel of Judges for 2011 have been selected. They are Dr. Richard Bennington, High Point University; Mary Brehm, Norwalk Furniture & Design, Raleigh, NC; Amelia Ellenstein, Art Van Furniture, Warren, MI; Jackie Hirschhaut, American Home Furnishings Alliance (AHFA); Michael Lennon, City Furniture, Tamarac, FL; Bruce Mulder, Kendall College of Art & Design, Sheila Long O’Mara, Home Furnishings Business; Connie Post, Connie Post Global Media; Dianne Ray, Garden City Furniture, SC; Thomas Russell, Furniture/Today; Shane Spiller, Spiller Furniture, Tuscaloosa, AL; and Rhonda Wolf, Havertys Furniture, Atlanta, GA.
Pinnacle Finalists will be released and posted on the ASFD Web site following the judging in late June. Winners will be revealed at the 2011 Pinnacle™ Awards Banquet on Monday evening, October 24 at the IHFC Ballroom during the High Point Market.
ABOUT ASFD" Founded in 1981, the American Society of Furniture Designers (ASFD) is dedicated to excellence, innovation, education and originality in the practice of furniture design. ASFD serves as the unified voice of the furniture design community, advocating professional practice and integrity at all times. ASFD seeks to demonstrate the value of design to the furnishings industry.
The Pinnacle Awards were created in April 1995 by the ASFD board of directors to promote design quality and encourage the recognition of furniture designers within the retail home furnishings industry.