Design Guild Names Showcase Award Winners

Manchester, NH, Nov. 18, 2010 -- The International Design Guild, an alliance of fine flooring covering showrooms for products and services to design professionals and luxury consumers, has named the winners of its 2010 Designer Showcase Awards.

“With over 100 affiliated showrooms nationwide, Guild members are involved with designers in an amazing number of stunning projects at any given time. The Designer Showcase Awards are the best way to recognize the talented interior designers our showrooms work with and cater to every day,” said Krista Eliason, president of International Design Guild.

The winner of the 2010 Dabbieri Award of Distinction and the Grand Prize of $5,000 is Tyler C. Swoverland of Wheatridge, Colorado. For his dining and living space, Swoverland used 100% wool, hand-loomed Dabbieri custom rugs using coffee bean and natural colors from Floor Coverings by CPA located in the Denver Design Center.

First Runner-Up and winner of $2,500 is Jenny Lynn Wynne of Cincinnati, whose living space featured hand-knotted rugs from The Rug Gallery.

Honorable Mention and $1,000 goes to Lane Oliver of Denver whose project used Dabbieri Acquacotta from Floor Coverings by CPA to create a warm old English atmosphere in this library.

Honorable Mention and $1,000 also goes to James Connelly of Whitefish Bay, Wis., whose masculine study featured an oriental rugfrom Kashou Carpets in Milwaukee.