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BDW Awards

Boston Design Week 2024 Design Awards

SAVE THE DATE! THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2024 6-9PM

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DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED

The 2023 Boston Design Week Awards were Sponsored by

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Vectorworks, Inc. is a U.S.-based software development company that focuses on CAD and BIM software for the architecture, engineering, and construction, landscape, and entertainment industries. 

The Awards:

2023 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient

Thomas Moser, Furniture Maker and Founder, Thos. Moser

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The Boston Design Week Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to an outstanding individual in the world of design
whose work has spanned both the 20th & 21st centuries.

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Past recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award include:

2009 - Vladimir Kagan, Designer and Architect

2010 - Dakota Jackson, Furniture Designer

2011 - Massimo and Lella Vignelli, Designers

2012 - Vicente Wolf, Interior Designer

2013 - John P. Axelrod, Collector and Philanthropist

2014 - Susan Park, Preservationist

2015 - Robert Campbell, Architecture Critic

2016 - Virginia Bohlin, Antiques Columnist, Boston Globe

2017 - Jonathan Leo Fairbanks, Decorative Arts Curator

           Emeritus, MFA Boston

2018 - Maurice N. Finegold, Finegold Alexander Architects

2019 - Roger Thomas, EVP, Wynn Design and Development

2020 - Awards were postponed.

2021 - Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez, Furniture Maker

2022 - Oren Sherman, Artist, Educator, Visual Storyteller

Thomas Moser was born on February 23, 1935, in Chicago, Illinois – the second of two boys to Josef and Sabina Moser. After becoming orphaned at age 18, Tom joined the Air Force and from there was given the opportunity to study at the State University of New York at Geneseo. It was there that he married his high school sweetheart Mary Wilson. He continued his education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where he earned his PhD. He and Mary settled in Maine when Tom accepted a teaching role at the University of Maine in Orono. Shortly after he transferred to Bates College in Lewiston, Maine as a professor of rhetoric. In 1972, Tom took a year “sabbatical” from his tenured position at Bates to begin Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers – and never looked back. Tom’s unique design aesthetic gained a loyal following and today – 50 years later - Thos. Moser has grown from a one-man operation to a community of nearly 70 skilled craftspeople in an 80,000 sq. foot workshop in Auburn, Maine. Each guided by Tom’s original mission of building furniture that celebrates the natural beauty of wood and is crafted for a long and useful life.

Producers' Choice Award

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For 140 years, North Bennet Street School has evolved and adapted to serve our community by providing hands-on training, to help people achieve meaningful lives and livelihoods. The oldest trade school in the country, NBSS was founded in 1881 as North Bennet Street Industrial School, our founding mission was to enable immigrants to adjust to their new country by learning the skills needed for gainful employment.  The school offers full-time programs in cabinet and furniture making, carpentry, jewelry making and repair, piano technology, violin making and repair and other areas, and furthers its vision of offering “a good life built by hand”.

March 25-April 5
 2020

Mentor of the Year Award, Co-Sponsored by the Over My Shoulder Foundation 

Legendary Fashion Designer and Icon: Yolanda Cellucci

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In 1968, entrepreneur Yolanda Cellucci entered Boston’s fashion scene and left a dazzling and indelible mark. She forged a business model focused on women’s wear and self-care in a holistic, head-turning way. Her shop Yolanda’s, based in Waltham, became a hotspot for lavish evening and wedding ensembles, international designs, style consultations, a day spa and more — all under one roof.  For more than 40 years, Yolanda’s was a household name throughout the region and shorthand for glitz and glamor. 

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    Awards Announced and Presented at the Event 

The Social Impact Award is given to an outstanding individual, project, development, innovation or business in any design field that has contributed a design solution large or small  to any urgent issue facing our world: societal, environmental, economic, health and wellness, poverty, affordability, sustainability or other. 

The 2023 Social Impact Award was presented to Historic Boston, Inc.

The Newcomer of the Year Award is given to an outstanding individual (or individuals) in any design field, who has launched a new product, design process, design business or other innovation within the past 5 years.

The 2023 Newcomer of the Year Award was presented to Cannon Hill Woodworking.

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_______________________________2023 Boston Design Week Leadership Committee ___________________________

Mayor Michelle Wu,

Honorary Chair

 

Judith Anderson, Chair,  Industrial Design

Mass. College of Art & Design

 

John P. Axelrod and Darwin Cordoba 

 

Silke Berlinghof-Nielsen, Styylish

 

Nancy E. Berry, Editor, Northshore Magazine

 

Jared Bowen, GBH News Executive Arts Editor & Host, Open Studio 

 

Kelly Brilliant, Co-Executive Director

Fenway Alliance 

 

Nina Brogna, National Account Director

Boston Home 

 

Karina Burston, Acting Director

Society of Arts + Crafts

 

Jay Calderin, School of Fashion Design,

Boston and Founder & Executive Director

Boston Fashion Week

 

Nick Capasso, Director

Fitchburg Art Museum

 

Dawn Carroll, Founder

Over My Shoulder Foundation

 

Greg Cerio, Editor in Chief

The Magazine Antiques

 

Sarah Chasse, Associate Curator

Peabody Essex Museum

 

David and Nancy Colella,

The Colonnade Hotel

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Jaci Conry, Editor, Boston Home

 

Sean Cutting, President

Cutting Edge Homes

 

Genevieve Day, Co-Executive Director

Fenway Alliance

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Michelle duBois, Director

Winston Art Group

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Kathy Bush Dutton, Publisher

New England Home

 

Kara Elliot-Ortega, 

Chief of Arts and Culture, City of Boston

 

Colleene Fesko, Fine Art Consultant

 

Alison Frazee, Executive Director

Boston Preservation Alliance 

 

Rita A. Fucillo, Publisher, Art New England

 

Nonie Gadsden, Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, MFA, Boston

 

Margot Girin, Styylish

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Susan Goldberg, CEO & President,

GBH Educational Foundation

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Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez, President Emeritus

North Bennet Street School

 

Dr. Mary K. Grant, President, 

Massachusetts College Art & Design

 

David J Hacin, FAIA, Hacin

 

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Rose-Marie & Eijk van Otterloo Executive Director & CEO

Peabody Essex Museum

 

Eric Haydel, President, M-Geough

 

Kyle Hoepner. Design Journalist and Outreach Consultant

 

Jeremy Howell, Editor-in-Chief

& Co-Creator, Art & Object

 

Allison Iantosca, Owner/President

F.H. Perry Builders

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Diane and David Jensen

Jensen Fine Arts 

 

Cheryl & Jeffrey Katz

C &J Katz Studio

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Allison Kemmerer, The Mary Stripp and R, Crosby Kemper Director,

Addison Gallery of American Art

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Joyce Kulhawik, President of the Boston Theater Critics Association & Andrew Cohen

 

Ted Landsmark, Director, Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, Northeastern University; and Janet Oberto

 

Carlotta Cubi Mandra, President. Cumar

 

David J. Manzi, CEO/Founder

Manzi Appraisers

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Meghan Melvin, Sharf Curator of Design, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 

 

Tim Montgomery, Publisher

New Venture Media

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Betty Moore, Publisher, Builder + Architect

 

Lana M. Nathe, Principal 

Light Insight Design Studio  

 

Taniya Nayak, Principal Interior Architect 

Taniya Nayak Design

 

Nancy Netzer, Director

McMullen Museum of Art

 

Melanie Perillo, Publisher

Boston Design Guide

 

Jessica Roscio, Director and Curator

Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University 

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Petra Slinkard, Nancy B. Putnam

Curator of Fashion and Textiles,

Peabody Essex Museum

 

Don Sparacin, Publisher

The Magazine Antiques  

 

Sarah Turner, President

North Bennet Street School

 

Christine Gilchrist Tuttle

Christine Tuttle Design

 

Tess Woods, Publisher

Modern Luxury Interiors Boston

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AS OF 4/13/23

Some Photos From Our 2023 Awards

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