AACC Students Receive Honors for Interior Design

Two students recently won awards in interior design, which is a second career both students are pursuing.

In the Chesapeake Home and Living and American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) awards for exceptional design, Ashby Walsh Williams of Annapolis and Sophie C. Honeywell of Crownsville both placed in the Design Element category of the student competition.

Williams, a first-year AACC student, won first place for her "Eastern Shore Retreat" window treatment. The winning design is a window treatment she created for a client who wanted her son’s room to double as a guest room while he was away at college, according to a release. The project was part of Williams' coursework in “Introduction to Interior Design” (ACH 100).

Honeywell, who has a bachelor's degree from Syracuse University and is in her second year at AACC, won a second place award. Her design was based on her final exam project for “Textiles and Textile Applications” (ACH 105) to create a work of fine art out of textiles. She was inspired by a Willem De Kooning painting “February” and wove fabric into wire poultry net to form a screen that resembled that painting, according to AACC.

The awards were announced in the October/November issue of Chesapeake Home and Living magazine.