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Get to Know the Winners of the 2015 National Design Awards
The winners of the 16th annual National Design Awards, presented by Cooper Hewitt, include many Dwell favorites. Two former Dwell on Design keynote speakers, Michael Graves and Stephen Burks, were honored, as well as other designers that have graced the pages of Dwell. Here, we've suggested articles and videos that will help you do your homework on the winners.
Other Dwell on Design attendees that have won National Design Awards include Margie Ruddick and Clive Wilkinson, both Dwell on Design New York 2014 presenters.
The textile designer at home at LongHouse Reserve, the Long Island estate he had designed by Charles Forberg, whom Larsen calls “an architect’s architect.” One of the most notable features of the house—inspired in equal parts by Japanese Shinto shrines and Larsen’s old New York City loft—is the 65-foot-long glass ceiling embedded along the spine of the peaked roof.
Cedar slats mark the facade of Floating House, Doug and Becca Worple's lake house in Ontario. The architects, MOS, chose materials and shapes that wouldn’t stand out. “They’re really simple, almost Platonic forms,” principal Michael Meredith says. The modest cabin has boat, a gabled roof and a cladding of untreated cedar, a material that shows up on docks and homes along Georgian Bay. “Allowing the buildings to weather seems the right thing to do,” Sample says. And it’s ready for winter: Sliding barn doors seal the place up as an impenetrable box.
Keynote speaker Stephen Burks, the American industrial designer behind Readymade Projects, is in the midst of a yearlong collaboration with Dwell that wraps up this October at Dwell on Design in New York. Burks will join Dwell Editor-in-Chief Amanda Dameron onstage for a conversation about his craft-driven initiatives in developing countries, and how he marries personal goals with marketable design.
Photo by Brian W. Ferry.