NEW YORK SPACES MAGAZINE AWARDS LEADERS IN HOME DESIGN

New York Spaces served up a grand celebration at the expansive, luxury lounge ‘Ascent‘ in the Time Warner Center at 10 Columbus Circle in Manhattan. The popular magazine and online platform awarded design firms and innovative products that reign supreme in the home and interior design industry.

It was an elegant evening with a sprightly cocktail hour where hundreds of design enthusiast made appearances, congratulated winners, celebrated good design and welcomed the Spring season.

The Winners were announced live at this new event: Spring Into Design Presented by Benjamin Moore CENTURY . . .

KITCHENS: Scavolini

LANDSCAPE: Piet Oudolf

LIGHTING: Apparatus

FABRIC: Kravet

ARCHITECTS: GRADE

ART & ANTIQUES: Ralph Pucci International

BATHROOMS: Duravit

DESIGNERS WITH A PRODUCT LINE: Jamie Drake (for Theodore Alexander line)

FLOORING: Studium

FURNITURE: Dennis Miller Collection

CONGRATULATIONS to the nominees and the winners and ‘BRAVO’ to New York Spaces – your parties and events will long be remembered as legendary.

New York Spaces celebration at Ascent Lounge in Time Warner Center.

Designer Matthew Patrick Smyth, Dennis Miller (Winner from the category, Furniture), Barry Goralnick (Architect and Designer, Finalist), Lucio Amadio (Design Consultant at Studium), and guests at 5/1/17 New York Spaces Spring Into Design presented by Benjamin Moore event at Ascent Lounge in Time Warner Center, awarding the 2017 Leaders in Home Products Design Awards.

Rio Hamilton, Kim Mitchell (KAM Design / HGTV Property Brothers), Martin Kesselman (NYC Designer and Colorist) at 5/1/17 New York Spaces Spring Into Design presented by Benjamin Moore event at Ascent Lounge in Time Warner Center, awarding the 2017 Leaders in Home Products Design Awards.

Martin Kesselman + Rio Hamilton + Nick Calder + Nicole Haddad + Jonathan Kuztner at Ascent Lounge in Time Warner Center.

Lisa Ben-Isvy (Publisher of New York Spaces), Daniele Busca (Creative Director and Store Manager at Scavolini, Winner in Kitchen category) and David Miller (President and CEO of Davler Media Group, parent company of New York Spaces) at 5/1/17 New York Spaces Spring Into Design presented by Benjamin Moore event at Ascent Lounge in Time Warner Center, awarding the 2017 Leaders in Home Products Design Awards.

Kelly Sinatra (Head of Public Relations for Benjamin Moore) and Lisa Ben-Isvy (Publisher of New York Spaces) at 5/1/17 New York Spaces Spring Into Design presented by Benjamin Moore event at Ascent Lounge in Time Warner Center, awarding the 2017 Leaders in Home Products Design Awards

Vicente Wolfe (Finalist for VW Home line), Lisa Ben-Isvy (Publisher of New York Spaces) and Trudi Romeo (Director at VW Home) at 5/1/17 New York Spaces Spring Into Design presented by Benjamin Moore event at Ascent Lounge in Time Warner Center, awarding the 2017 Leaders in Home Products Design Awards.

Alix Lerman (CMO New York Design Center), Lisa Ben-Isvy (Publisher of New York Spaces), Jamie Drake (Winner from the category, Designers with a Product Line for his work with Theodore Alexander), Jason Kontos (Editorial Director of New York Spaces) 5/1/17 New York Spaces Spring Into Design presented by Benjamin Moore event at Ascent Lounge in Time Warner Center, awarding the 2017 Leaders in Home Products Design Awards.

Anjali Pollack (Interior Designer), Dane Pressner (Interior Designer at D’Aquino Monaco, Lisa Ben-Isvy (Publisher of New York Spaces), Louise Philips Forbes (Halstead Property-The Louise Phillips Forbes Team), and guest at 5/1/17 New York Spaces Spring Into Design presented by Benjamin Moore event at Ascent Lounge in Time Warner Center, awarding the 2017 Leaders in Home Products Design Awardsç.

Malene B + Nicole Haddad at Ascent Lounge in Time Warner Center.

Ralph Pucci receiving his award as the Winner of 2017 Leaders in Home Products Design Awards in the Art & Antiques category, at 5/1/17 New York Spaces Spring Into Design presented by Benjamin Moore event at Ascent Lounge in Time Warner Center.

Dennis Miller receiving his award as the Winner of 2017 Leaders in Home Products Design Awards in the Furniture category, at 5/1/17 New York Spaces Spring Into Design presented by Benjamin Moore event at Ascent Lounge in Time Warner Center.

New York Spaces’ editors nominated approximately 250 firms and individuals across the ten categories. Then, thousands of designers, luxury homeowners, readers of New York Spaces magazine, newyorkspaces.com, and NYC style devotees voted on the Nominees from February 6 – March 3, 2017 to determine the five Finalists in each category. Next, a panel of eight industry luminaries met on March 29th and chose the winners. The judges were: Joshua McHugh, Louise Phillips Forbes, Martin Kesselman, Janice Langrall, Bruce Tilley, John Barman, (all present at this evening’s event), plus Gisue Hariri and Matthew White.

“We’re delighted that Benjamin Moore lent its support to last night’s, first annual Spring Into Design party and award ceremony, by sharing their innovative new paint product CENTURY with the guests. Benjamin Moore developed CENTURY specifically for high-end designers, which we are proud to say more than 50 top designers attended the event and can’t wait to use this product,” adds New York Spaces publisher Lisa Ben Isvy.

Extensive coverage of the Winners, judges, party and award ceremony, related to Spring Into Design and the LEADERS IN HOME PRODUCTS DESIGN AWARDS, will be featured on newyorkspaces.com and in the Spring issue of New York

Spaces’ bi-annual product guide the goods, on newsstands and in mailboxes around May 29.

Rio Hamilton

Rio Hamilton is a business development professional with vast marketing and sales experience.He specializes in brand promotion for the luxury interior design and lifestyle industries. Rio works with companies, individuals and groups on concentrated brand identity and elevation. He has a popular website that chronicles "the who's who" at design and fashion events throughout greater New York.