Boston Design Week 2023 Design Awards
FRiday EVENING, May 5, 2023, 5:30-8:30pm
At Cascieri Hall, Boston Architectural College, 320 Newbury Street, Boston
The 2023 Boston Design Week Awards are Sponsored by
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

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.
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
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
Awards Announced and Presented at the Event
• Social Impact Award
• Newcomer of the Year
• Mentor of the Year, co-sponsored by
The Over My Shoulder Foundation
NOMINATIONS FOR THESE AWARDS
ARE OPEN UNTIL APRIL 15th
https://tinyurl.com/BDWNominations
Nomination Guidelines
• All Nominations must be submitted electronically.
• Anyone can submit as many nominations in each category as they choose, and self-nominations are allowed.
• Only complete nomination forms will be considered.
• The winners will be announced and the Awards will be presented at the Boston Design Week 2023 Awards, Friday evening May 5, 2023. The nominee must be present to receive the Award, but all finalists will be notified and receive complimentary tickets to the Awards for themselves and a guest.
• Award finalists and recipients must allow Boston Design Week to publish and promote the information about their award.
• The Awards carry no monetary value, and the decisions of Boston Design Week and its advisors are final.

Awards Co-Host Taniya Nayak, Taniya Nayak Design
Photo by Jim Barbere
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.
Some Past Social Impact Awards:
* Michael Mittelman, Founder and Designer, Bowls for Food
* Ben Peterson, Sir. Of Practice Instruction and Student Support,
Boston Architectural College
* “Hatched”, Esplanade Association
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.
Some Past Newcomer Awards:
Carly Blackmore, Owner, Habitat Design
* Susi Sanchez, UX Architecture Studio
* Joel Kamm, Founder & CEO of Flexetail
* Angela Luna, Founder & CEO, ADIFF
The Mentor of the Year Award is given to an outstanding role model in any design field who encourages involvement in professional opportunities and provides exemplary guidance or training in their discipline to students, staff members, colleagues or the public. The Mentor of the Year Award is co-sponsored by The Over My Shoulder Foundation.
Some Past Mentor of the Year Awards:
* Charles Spada, Principal, Charles Spada Interiors
* Michael J. Lee, Photographer
* Jay Calderin, Senior Instructor, School of Fashion Design and
Founder & Executive Director, Boston Fashion Week
_______________________________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
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
Jaci Conry, Editor
Boston Home
Sean Cutting, President
Cutting Edge Homes
Genevieve Day, Co-Executive Director
Fenway Alliance
Michelle duBois, Director
Winston Art Group
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
Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez, President Emeritus
North Bennet Street School
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
Diane and David Jensen
Jensen Fine Arts
Cheryl & Jeffrey Katz
C &J Katz Studio
Allison Kemmerer, The Mary Stripp and R, Crosby Kemper Director,
Addison Gallery of American Art
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
Meghan Melvin, Sharf Curator of Design, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Tim Montgomery, Publisher
New Venture Media
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
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
AS OF 3/5/23
Some Photos From Last Year's Awards Event

















