Design Britain award ...finalists announced...

Designers of the future discovered at interiors 2010

Featuring this year’s hottest young design talent in furnishing, lighting, soft furnishing and accessories, interiors 2010 will be hosting this year’s New Design Britain finalists.
The New Design Britain competition is open to graduates and postgraduates and has two main categories in the competition: Made in Britain and Designed in Britain. Each of these has three subsections: Furniture, Accessories and Surface Coverings and Fabrics.
The finalists will be displayed at the show with the winners being judged and announced at interiors 2010 on Monday 25th January 2010.

The finalists are as follows:

Furniture:
Phil Crooks, Yu-Hun Kim, Tim Harrison & Lorna Wilby
Highly commended: Alec Macmaster & Francesca Mancini

Accessories:
James Cadogan, Helena Karelson, Allesandro Foglia & Celia Choryn

Surface Coverings and Fabrics:
Kate Simcoe, Lynsey Jean Henderson, Vaishali Patel, Tamar Balakjian, Polly Bell & Jennifer Jones

Judging the entries will take place by:

John Jenkins – Heals
Sally Bendelow – Marks & Spencer
Damien Walton – House of Fraser
Gareth Griffiths – Stuart Jones ltd
Martin Grierson – Worshipful Company Furniture Makers
Barbara Chandler – Freelance journalist and photographer

Previous winners of New Design Britain include Jason Heap, Rob Scarlet and Naomi Dean – all have gone on to have success within the interiors industry. To read more about their success stories click here.

Nice to see some of my old boys, Jason Heap and Alex Macmaster mentioned here...well done to both of them!