Crompond Company is Finalist in Westchester Home's Annual Design Awards

The finalists have been revealed, but the winners remain a secret!

Westchester Home has announced the top designers and architects whose intriguing interiors and appealing architecture have been chosen as finalists, from 200 submissions, in the magazine’s 4th annual Design Awards Contest. The finalists and their projects are profiled in the magazine’s Winter 2015 issue, now on newsstands.

On Thursday, January 14, 2015 the winners will be announced at a gala awards ceremony at the Emelin

Theatre, Mamaroneck, NY. Guests will have the opportunity to mix and mingle with the region’s most outstanding interior designers, architects, and building professionals during a pre-­-awards cocktail reception and then join in celebrating as the winners are announced in seven different categories. Tickets are now on sale at westchestermagazine.com.

The judging for this year’s awards was a two-­-step process involving design professionals in Westchester County and New York City. A nominating committee composed of Phyllis Harbinger, president, ASID NY Metro Chapter, and principal, Design Concepts/Interiors, LLC; Kim Freeman of Kim Freeman Style & Design; Jacqueline Hosford of Jacqueline Hosford Interior Design, LLC, and past president, ASID NY Metro Chapter; John D. Fry, AIA LEED AP, president, AIA Westchester and Hudson Valley, andRaymond Beeler, AIA president, New York State, and principal, Gallin Beeler Design Studio, reviewed all submissions and narrowed the selection down to the top 21 finalists. These finalists were then reviewed by a panel of faculty members from the New York School of Interior Design including Veronica Whitlock, Margaret

Minz, Don Kossar, and John Buscarello, who selected the winners in each category.

The 2015 Design Awards finalists are:

Entry Halls:

Daniel Contelmo Architects, Poughkeepsie, NY

Denise Wenacur, DW Design & Décor, Croton-On­-Hudson, NY

Katherine Stern Design, Croton-on­-Hudson, NY

Dining Room:

Daniel Contelmo Architects, Poughkeepsie, NY

Dufner Heighes Inc., New York, NY

Mimi Fong, Luminosus Designs, White Plains, NY,

Kitchens:

Bilotta Kitchens, Mamaroneck, NY, Randy O’Kane, Senior Designer

Carol Kurth Architecture, Bedford, NY

LEICHT Westchester, Mount Kisco, NY, Tasos Kokoris, Architect

Bathroom:

Claire Paquin, Clean Design, Scarsdale, NY

Ruth Aben, Ruth Abend Design, New York, NY

Leslie E. Gustafson, Design Solutions, Crompond, NY

Living Spaces:

Claire Paquin, Clean Design, Scarsdale, NY

Kent Pruzan Interiors, Greenwich, CT

Mara Solow Interiors, Pleasantville, NY

Master Suites:

Daniel Contelmo Architects, Poughkeepsie, NY

Dufner Heighes Inc., New York, NY

Mimi Fong, Luminosus Designs, White Plains, NY

Whole Home Design:

Carol Kurth Architecture, Bedford, NY

Daniel Contelmo Architects, Poughkeepsie, NY

Samantha Nestor, workshop/apd, New York, NY

Westchester Home’s Design Awards are sponsored by Best Plumbing Tile and Stone, Bilotta Kitchens, Consolidated Plumbing Supply and Majestic Kitchens and Baths.

Tickets to Westchester Home’s Design Awards are $25 and can be purchased at westchestermagazine.com/designawards.