Anna Mavrakis Named Recipient of IDS Fellowship Award

High Point, NC, April 12, 2016—The Interior Design Society (IDS) announced Anna Mavrakis, past president of IDS, as the recipient of its Fellowship Award at the ceremony concluding IDS National Conference on April 1.

Becoming an IDS Fellow is the highest honor that can be awarded to a member and is only bestowed every few years when there is a member worthy of such an honor. Achieving the distinction of IDS Fellowship recognizes individual interior designers for outstanding accomplishments in their profession and for providing a significant contribution to IDS.

The award was presented to Mavrakis by IDS national president, Jan Cregier.

An IDS Fellowship is awarded to a member who has shown outstanding achievement by promoting the excellence and advancement of residential interior design, providing leadership to the residential interior design industry and the profession of interior design, enhancing the profession of residential interior design by advancing the educational training or practice of interior design, and ensuring the advancement of human living standards by removing barriers that prevent individuals from the benefits of an improved environment as a result of a residential interior design professional. Anna Mavrakis has accomplished this and much more.

Mavrakis passed the Council for Qualification of Residential Interior Designers (CQRID) in 1988 and has been a professional level member of IDS since 1999. She also served as president of the Northeast Ohio chapter and was later elected as IDS National president and served from 2011 through 2013.