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Staff -- Interior Design, 11/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Trust Us

There's no more worthy cause than the Design Trust for Public Space, which is why Interior Design signed on as the first-ever media sponsor of the organization's annual benefit auction in New York. The event raised $230,000, with $14,000 of that coming from the winning bid for a commissioned portrait by William Wegman.

The event's chair, Interior Design Hall of Fame member Kitty Hawks, and husband Lawrence Lederman.
Joan Michaels of 2 Michaels, furniture dealer Larry Weinberg, 2 Michaels's Jayne Michaels, Interior Design editor in chief Cindy Allen, jewelry designer Monica Castiglioni, and attorney Todd Pickard.
The studio of Rafael Viñoly Architects, transformed for the silent auction.
Design Trust executive director Deborah Marton and the event's planner, Deborah Strafella.
Maharam's Stephen Maharam, Design Trust founder and board president Andrea Woodner, professor Allison Kavey, and Design Trust development director Lawrence Horne.

L.A. x 2

Always keen to pair design with art, Ralph Pucci International presented furniture by Robert Bristow and photographs by Roberto Dutesco at the company's Los Angeles showroom. Interior Design cohosted the opening, which brought out a crowd of friends and family.

Host Ralph Pucci and Ergo Design Works designer Miki Ito.
Pucci's niece, Tara Lynch, and her husband, David Scalese, proprietors of the home-accessories store Funktion in Los Angeles.
Ralph Pucci International at the Pacific Design Center.
Designer Lori Erenberg and Interior Design deputy editor Edie Cohen.
The evening's guests of honor, Robert Bristow and Roberto Dutesco.

Hon. IIDA

Stanley Abercrombie, editor emeritus of Interior Design, was the toast of the International Interior Design Association's Northern California chapter Leader's Breakfast. The organization presented Abercrombie with its Leadership Award of Excellence in recognition of his prolific writing—his most recent title being the rereleased Interior Design and Decoration, a collaboration with Sherill Whiton.

The breakfast at San Francisco's Palace Hotel.
A very pleased Stanley Abercrombie, honorary IIDA.
Gensler's chairman, Art Gensler, presenting the citation.
IIDA executive vice president and CEO Cheryl Durst, IIDA senior director for marketing and communications Jocelyn Pysarchuk, and Herman Miller vice president for architecture and design John Newland.