ASID Announces 2005 Design Award Honorees

Washington, DC, January 20, 2006--The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) announced its 2005 design award honorees. A jury of members of the design community selected winners in five categories: Designer of Distinction, Design for Humanity, Educator of Distinction, Patron's Prize and Product Prize (corporate and individual). The jury also decided to bestow a Special Citation on a design visionary. With the exception of the Design for Humanity award recipient, the honorees will be feted at the Society's annual awards gala, Celebration: The ASID Design Awards, to take place at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday, March 18. The Design for Humanity honoree will be recognized during a special luncheon on Friday, March 17, during INTERIORS 06: The ASID Conference on Design. Barbara Barry, ASID, is the 2005 ASID Designer of Distinction. An interior design icon of the late 20th century, Barry has designed timeless residential and commercial interiors-restaurant, spa, retail and office environments -- for the most refined and prestigious of clients. She says that her designs convey a sense of "calm haven in a hectic world." Barry's signature design style -- influenced by the casual elegance of 1940s Hollywood tempered by a modern sensibility -- is now being offered to a wider audience by a variety of fabric and furnishings collections under her name. Barry has created signature collections for Ann Sacks Tile and Stone, Baccarat Crystal, Baker Furniture, Bloomingdales, Blueridge Carpets, Boyd Lighting Company, Havilland Limoges, HBF, Kallista, McGuire, Sferra Bros., Tufenkian Rugs and Wedgwood, among others. In 1985, Barry founded Barbara Barry, Inc., a full-service interior design firm based in Los Angeles. During her prestigious 20-year career, she has been honored with numerous awards and accolades, including induction into the Interior Design Hall of Fame, and being named one of House Beautiful magazine's Giants of Design and its 100 Best Designers, Elle Decor International's Designer of the Year, a member of Architectural Digest magazine's AD 100, and Designer of the Year by Traditional Home magazine. She also was honored as a Star of Design by the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. Barry trained at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. Patricia Moore, Ph.D., FIDSA, is the 2005 Design for Humanity honoree. A founder of the universal design methodology, Moore is president of Moore Design Associates, is an adjunct professor of industrial design at Arizona State University, and is a sought-after speaker and author. Her client list includes 3M, AT&T, Baxter Healthcare, Corning Glass, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Johnson Wax, Kraft General Foods, NASA, Norelco NA, Merck, Marriott, Maytag, Monsanto, OXO, Procter & Gamble, Sunbeam NA and Whirlpool, among others. From 1979 through 1982, Moore, disguised as a woman in her 80s, traveled through more than 100 U.S. and Canadian cities to study how senior citizens -- "our elders," according to Moore -- are treated. The result of her experiment was the book, Disguised: A True Story. Internationally honored for her work with OXO Good Grips(TM), Moore was named by I.D. magazine as one of "The 40 Most Socially Conscious Designers in the World," selected by a consortium of editors as one of the 100 most important women in America and chosen by ABC News "World News Tonight" as one of 50 Americans defining the new millennium. She holds undergraduate degrees in graphic and industrial design from the Rochester Institute of Technology and in biomechanics from the School of Medicine and the Institute of Rehabilitation at New York University, and post-graduate degrees in psychology and counseling and social gerontology from Columbia University.

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