ASID Announces 2004 Design Award Honorees

Washington, D.C., March 14--The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) is pleased to announce its 2004 design award honorees. A jury of professional designers selected winners in five categories: Designer of Distinction, Design for Humanity, Educator of Distinction, Patron's Prize and Product Prize (corporate and individual). The honorees will be recognized at the Society's annual awards program, Celebration: The ASID Design Awards, to take place at the Westin Horton Plaza in San Diego on Saturday, March 19. Deborah Lloyd Forrest, FASID, is the 2004 ASID Designer of Distinction. A world-renowned, award-winning hospitality interior designer specializing in historic preservation of landmark hotels, Forrest was inducted into the Hospitality Design Platinum Circle in 2004. Her projects have included the historic Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., the Hermitage in Nashville, Tenn., and the Alluvian in Greenwood, Miss., which was selected as one of the world's "Hot 100 Hotels" by Condé Nast Traveler in June 2004. The design of the Alluvian also was honored with the grand prize, luxury segment category, by Lodging Hospitality in 2004. Her firm, ForrestPerkins, also has designed a variety of boutique and large-scale luxury hotel properties for Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, InterContinental Hotels Group, and St. Regis Hotels and Resorts, to name just a few. The firm's award-winning work has been published in a number of publications, including Architectural Digest, Hospitality Design, Interior Design, Travel & Leisure, The New York Times and The Robb Report. Forrest and her partner, Stephen Perkins, AIA, founded ForrestPerkins in 1998, and currently maintain offices in Dallas and Washington, D.C., with more than 30 employees-interior designers, architects and technical staff. Before establishing ForrestPerkins, Forrest owned her own firm, Deborah Lloyd Forrest Associates, based in Dallas. Forrest is a fellow of ASID, the highest honor the Society bestows on members, and was named one of the top interior designers in Dallas by D Home magazine in 2004. Architecture for Humanity and Cameron Sinclair, its founder and executive director, are honored with the 2004 ASID Design for Humanity award. The nonprofit organization was founded in 1999 to "promote architectural and design solutions to global, social and humanitarian crises." Architecture for Humanity links architects and designers in 60 countries to projects in needy communities. The organization's volunteers have provided assistance to communities in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Grenada, Iran and Turkey, among many others around the globe, and the organization is currently involved in tsunami relief efforts in Asia. To date, Architecture for Humanity has raised more than $200,000 in donations and pro-bono services to allow for the building of basic shelter, schools, medical clinics and infrastructure in Sri Lanka. The organization also hosts international design competitions, leads educational outreach and advocacy programs, and partners with relief organizations to achieve their missions.

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