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| Interior Design Society announces Designer of the Year Award Recipients
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 On Wednesday, May 3, 2018 members and guests of the Interior Design Society (IDS) gathered in Savannah, Georgia to honor the winners of the 2017 Designer of the Year competition. The awards were presented by award-winning interior designer, Corey Damen Jenkins.
“The Designer of the Year competition demonstrates our commitment to recognize the outstanding work of our members nationwide” shared Jenny Cano, Executive Director, IDS. “This year we received a record number of entries, our award-winners consider it a prestigious honor.”
Award recipients were selected by an expert panel of judges that included: Robin Baron, Barclay Butera, Nicole Davis, Jane Dagmi, Richard Duncan, Nancy Fire, Serena Martin, Molly Mays, Jason Phillips, Natalie Reddell, Jennifer Wagner Schmidt and Jackie Von Tobel.
IDS also recognized the achievements of Bruce Knott, who was honored with the IDS Fellowship Award- the highest award given by the organization. Barbara Izzo and Nancy Ganzekaufer were both recognized with the inaugural Outstanding Leadership Award.
Click here to see the winners of the Designer of the Year competition.
| Hilltop Granite is partnering with Pietra Tiles & Mosaics to host HPD's Architecture Happy Hour
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May 16, 2018 | 5:00 p.m. | Hilltop Granite Dallas
12401 N Stemmons FWWY #140 | Dallas, Texas 75234
Two handcrafted pieces will be raffled, a lustrous white marble shell sculpture and Carrara marble accent tray. Don’t miss your chance to win!
There will be food, wine and a great opportunity to network.
Click here to learn more.
| Julie Schuster featured on ForbesBooks and in Culture Trip
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  New York designer Julie Schuster was recently featured in a podcast interview for ForbesBooks Radio, in which she talks about how she integrates three important design practices as an interior designer, a certified feng shui practitioner and a certified living in place space professional. You can hear the interview here.
She was also showcased in an article on Culture Trip entitled, "The One Change to Make in Your Home for the Biggest Impact," in which she offers insight and tips on decluttering.
| Barbara Roth featured in Kitchen & Bath Business
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 Designer Barbara Roth is a sucker for renovating an old Victorian house, so it was lucky that a couple in Beacon, N.Y. - the wife a dear friend of hers - owned such a home and were in need of a new kitchen. The results can been seen in this article, from the January 2018 edition of Kitchen & Bath Business.
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| IDS Associate Beth Krupa designs innovative Imagine Lab
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The Imagine Lab is a unique facility in Stamford, Connecticut that combines elite real estate training with state-of-the-art technology and client-based hospitality education. Designed by Beth Krupa, a three-time nationally awarded interior designer, the Lab is crafted with dynamic environments for creativity, focus, and connection. It's more than just the best place to work; it is a movement towards humanizing work. Designed with a real estate office of the future in mind, the space looks to empower agents to better connect to their clients by showcasing home design concepts with education. See more about the Imagine Lab here.
| Molloy Student, Alum cash in at Swatched2017
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On Oct. 10, IDS Long Island held its 2nd annual Swatched2017 event at the beautiful Zicana stone showroom in Westbury, New York. This was a fun filled evening where professional and student interior designers competed before a panel of celebrity judges to create a design board in just one hour.
Nichole Garofalo from the Design Program at Molloy College was chosen as the student winner. This was the second consecutive year that a student from the IDS Molloy Student Chapter won in this category. A former member of the chapter, Ellen Miller, took the first prize in the designer category.
"This was an exciting evening, not only because of the winners, but because their was such a good turnout of present and former Molloy students who competed,” said Marie Byrne, Faculty Adviser, IDS Molloy Student Chapter.
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Learn how you can make an IMPACT in your community through our new charitable design initiative #idsIMPACT. We are pleased to have Make-A-Wish and Dwell with Dignity as collaborating organizations of this program. Click here to see IDS members who are already making an IMPACT!
| Molloy Students go pro bono for Interfaith Nutrition Network
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The IDS Molloy Student Chapter recently completed the dining room at a homeless shelter for The INN (Interfaith Nutrition Network). Each family shares one room, making the common areas important. The dining room was dark, dreary and not user friendly.
At the ribbon cutting ceremony, the team was informed that “everyone, including the staff, love how the space has turned out and that it now feels more like a home.” The team hopes that the functional, happy, clean and light atmosphere will brighten their days and help give hope for the future. It was truly a labor of love.
All IDS members receive a complementary subscription to Window Fashion Vision. Click here to subscribe.
Tuesday, May 22, 11:30 am - 1:15 pm at Curate Showroom, Carrollton, TX
A compelling look at how and why flame retardant chemicals found their way into home furnishings products. Learn from Barry Cik, a forensic toxicologist and founder of Naturepedic Mattress why it matters, what current regulations dictate, and what your choices are for sustaining a healthy future with your furnishings choices.
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The Interior Design Society has joined The Interior Design Continuing Education Council (IDCEC), effective Jan. 1. Click here to learn more.
As of January 1, 2017, IDS Associate members must earn a minimum of 0.4 (4 hours) approved continuing education units (CEU) each year. Please make note of the following helpful information regarding CEUs and CEU filing to maintain your Associatel level membership in IDS.
IDS bylaws and policies require Professional and Associate members to meet the continuing education requirement. The IDS continuing education requirement is separate from any mandated continuing education requirement in your local jurisdiction. Check with your state regulatory board for requirements.
Filing CEUs
IDS members must utilize the Interior Design Continuing Education Council (IDCEC) registry to file CEUs. Each IDS member must create a free account through IDCEC. Once you have created your IDCEC account, you will receive a unique IDCEC number to login into the IDCEC website (your IDCEC number is different than your IDS member number). The IDCEC user registry allows you to upload and track your continuing education activity as well as store a record for you under your account. Check your IDCEC account regularly to ensure your records are up-to-date. At the end of each CEU cycle, you will be required to submit your IDCEC report to the IDS National office to verify that you have fulfilled your CEU requirement.
Special Circumstances
IDS may grant an adjustment to the requirement for individuals experiencing poor health, certified by a physician; a specific physical or mental disability, certified by an appropriate health care professional; extended duty with the armed forces; or for extreme hardship, which, in the board’s judgment, makes it impossible for the member to comply. Requests for an adjustment to the continuing education requirement must be made at least two months (by October 30) prior to the end of the current reporting period.
Noncompliance
At the end of a reporting period, members who have failed to meet the CEU requirements will be subject to a non-compliance fee ($10 per CEU). Any member who fails to comply with the continuing education requirement, including payment of the noncompliance fee, may be subject to devaluation of Professional membership.
The Interior Design Society has announced that the exclusive IDS Buyers’ Guide
— the premier resource of relevant products and services for interior design professionals — is now
available at the IDS website at www.interiordesignsociety.org .
If your company or business has not yet taken advantage of this exceptional opportunity to highlight
your products and services in the Guide, it is not too late! To learn more about advertising your products
or services in this exclusive Guide, please email ids-advertise@svmmedia.com or click here.
Please call IDS Membership Manager, Della Swider at 336-884-4437 ext. 223 for information. If you are an active member of IDS National, join our closed Facebook group to connect with members across the country! Click here to join the group.
Concrete Decor magazine, the concrete industry's premier magazine for all things decorative concrete is offering IDS members the chance to subscribe free to their magazine. Click here to read their current issue that features an article about how decorative concrete is carving its way into the design community.
If you are interested in obtaining a membership certificate or replacement membership card, please email idsbenefits@interiordesignsociety.org or call 336-884-4437 ext. 223 (please note for all replacement membership cards, there will be a $10 fee payable in advance for each replacement card ordered).
To view benefits exclusively available to IDS members, visit the Member Benefits page on the IDS National website. Members must log in on the IDS website in order to take advantage of available discounts.
Archiectural Digest
The days of toting around a physical portfolio, filled to the brim with (real film) photographs and sketches, are quickly fading. While designers still work with physical swatches and samples, much of the design industry, like the rest of the world, is going digital. In 2018, no matter how good your idea boards, it's imperative to have a strong website. It's the digital face of your brand and, for many potential clients, the entry point to your work and an introduction to your style.
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Mansion Global
Steven Sergiovanni and Chris Satek spent years amassing art. Unfortunately, living in a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood meant that most of it sat in storage.
Then in May 2015, Mr. Sergiovanni, a 53-year-old art adviser, and Mr. Satek, a 56-year-old graphic designer, paid $650,000 for a three-bedroom, 1,600-square-foot house in East Hampton, New York. The following January, the longtime couple kicked off a roughly one-year, $595,000 remodel that turned the dated 1973 structure into a minimalist retreat with expanded windows and wall space to show off their collection.
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The New York Times
Pets can be good for your health, have a positive effect on your psyche and even improve your dating game. But having a furry family member can wreak havoc on your furnishings.
Even if they don’t use the sofa as a scratching post or chew your baskets to bits, pets invariably come with accessories like dog crates, litter boxes and other potential eyesores. Loose fur, dirty paw prints and unfortunate accidents are equally inevitable.
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By Susan Mulholland
 Design is all about the next big thing. We are all obsessed with the idea that there is something new or better out there, and we just have to find it. If you don’t believe me, just go to any of the design conferences listed in the professional interior design trade magazines. I have been practicing professionally for two-and-a-half decades, and I can tell you that no matter how many emails you get from manufacturers telling you about their latest product introductions, nothing beats going to the shows and seeing them in person.
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Mansion Global
Only a handful of prestige rainforest or beachfront properties trade hands each year within the surrounding suburbs of Cairns and the neighboring high-end holiday hub of Port Douglas in Australia.
A true international city with a melting pot of cultures, the Cairns property market is being recognized as much for its relaxed beach and hinterland lifestyle as it is for its exceptional value.
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Architectural Digest
"Vast," "exceptional," "massive and prestigious": These are just some of the words that have been used to describe what Christie's itself is calling "the most anticipated art world event of the spring season." They're referring, of course, to the sale of the personal collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, a category-spanning sale from two of the country's most prominent collectors. Taking place over the course of three days, the collection sale comprises European furnishings; Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and European porcelain; fine jewelry; and some of the world's best works of Impressionist and modern art.
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Blasting News
Artificial Intelligence often gets a bad rap on the silver screen. In Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," an omnipotent computer named HAL 9000 sets upon wiping out all life on its spaceship after noticing that its human occupants were planning to turn him off. The 1984 film, "The Terminator," focuses on AI's attempt at destroying the human race altogether.
This all makes for pretty bleak reading when all you want to do is furnish your living room. But luckily Hollywood AI's real-life counterparts are proving to be a lot more helpful and generally less destructive.
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Mansion Global
Behind its elegant stone cladding and beautifully black lacquered front door, this home on Upper Grosvenor Street is surprisingly grand in scale.
“It’s an unexpectedly large house with a strong traditional heritage mixed with contemporary design and suitable for modern day family life,” said Grazyna Solland, director of Sollands, Ltd.
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