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Best of Year 2009 Winner: Shelton, Mindel & Associates

Best of Year -- Interior Design, 12/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

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Best of Year Winner, Showroom: Shelton, Mindel & Associates: Leonard Street Gallery, New York, NY
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Back in the boom, Herzog & de Meuron was commissioned to build its first skyscraper, a 60-story New York apartment tower. The job of designing the sales and design gallery went not to Pritzker Architecture Prize winners Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, however, but to another duo, Interior Design Hall of Fame members Peter Shelton and Lee Mindel. In a 2,500-square-foot space on the ground level of a neighboring cast-iron building, they set out to create a work of art on par with the Anish Kapoor sculpture envisioned for the sidewalk outside the finished tower. A rendering of the building was framed by Corinthian columns in the entry of the gallery. Full-scale rooms followed, complete with modernist furniture and contemporary art. Everything looked ready to move right in—as soon as the economy rebounds, and construction resumes.

GRACE SIERRA; NATHAN SOMERA; THOMAS BUENAVENTURA: PROJECT TEAM.

Best of Year Merit Awards, Showroom

[merz]project architecture + interiors + urban design: The BSH Gallery and Training Center, Scottdale, AZ
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A white fabric-wrapped drum fixture descends from the ceiling to bring drama to a reception area that introduces four showroom-studios, a training center, and a product-research lab.

Giorgio Borruso Design: Snaidero USA Showroom, New York, NY

Instead of simulating domestic settings, this kitchen showroom relies on staggered walls to create focus areas for cabinetry, appliances and fittings, and finishes.

One Plus Partnership Limited: Nanjing Sales Office (Natural Kingdom), Nanjing, China

With floors rendered in three colors of marble and walls of wengé strips, striations bring dynamism to a sales office for a residential development next to a national park.