IIDA Olé

Staff -- Interior Design, 7/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

The International Interior Design Association's 33rd annual awards ceremony, aka the Cool gala, attracted a hot list of 500 guests to the Westin Chicago River North during NeoCon. Industry notables and scantily clad models gathered in honor of the winners: Burdifilek; Gabellini Sheppard Associates; the Rockwell Group; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; and Substance Architecture. The latter won Best of Competition, while SOM won the People's Choice award, tallied by tabletop voting boxes. The Will Ching prize, for firms of five or fewer, went to C&C Studio. And everyone took home a commemorative paper fan.

1. HOK vice president Joe Pettipas with senior vice presidents Susan Grossinger and Brett Shwery.

2. Cheryl Durst, the IIDA's executive vice president and CEO, and Stacy Reed, interior design specialist for the University of Texas.

3. Strictly ballroom.

4. Substance Architecture's Jason Alread, Mindy Aust, Brad Rippey, Julie Severson, William Anderson, and Isaac Bracher with Bank of America's John Lijewski, former IIDA president.

5. Interior Design editor in chief Cindy Allen and the magazine's publisher and vice president, Mark Strauss, accepting a Certificate of Appreciation.

6. Charles Lee, Marjorie Platzker, Catherine Haley, and Interior Design Hall of Fame member Stephen Apking, all of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, holding their awards as SOM's Peter Magill, Pritzker Realty consultant Laura Fisher, and SOM's Enoka Strait beam.

7. Daniel Garbowit and Kimberly Sheppard, partners at Gabellini Sheppard Associates.

8. Rockwell Group associate Niels Guldager and C&C Studio principal Carl Ettensperger.

9. IIDA senior vice president Dennis Krause living it up with models in sarongs by Luna Textiles and Pollack.

10. Georgy Olivieri, a vice president at gala sponsor Haworth.

11. John Newland, IIDA vice president of industry relations, congratulating Apking.

12. Eric Engstrom, president of EDG and outgoing president of the IIDA.

13. Hall of Famer Clive Wilkinson and Eames Office principal Eames Demetrios.