New York—
Solutia and the 2005 Doc competition winners were favored with the last of the season’s warm weather as the group gathered for its annual awards luncheon. The competition, now in its 17th year, recognizes outstanding achievement in contract projects that integrate color, space, form, function and materials, including carpet made with Solutia Ultron nylon 6,6 fiber.
The award, considered to be one of the A&D community’s premier benchmarks for success, was given to four design firms, three of which are based in Chicago. Also announced were the 2005 winners for Product Design, awarded to carpet mills for outstanding achievement in carpet design.
“Solutia is pleased to recognize these talented individuals and firms for their creativity in design and color along with their masterful execution of these projects,”
Kaye Gosline, director of contract fibers for Solutia, told guests. “We are proud to have the family of Ultron fiber products associated with these design professionals.”
The Doc competition is named to honor a true pioneer and an inspirational leader in the contract interior design industry, Robert F. Docherty, also known as “Doc.” Much of Doc’s 30-year career at Solutia was focused on the contract market. He was among the first in the industry to recognize the important role of the interior designer, establishing relationships with professional organizations such as ASID and IIDA (formerly IBD, ISID and CFID). He pioneered the use of broadloom in both educational and healthcare segments.
Doc funded the research which resulted in the first use of carpet in patient care areas and was instrumental in founding the specifier’s continuing education program conducted at Solutia’s manufacturing facilities. The success enjoyed by Solutia today is in large part due to the relationships Doc began building in the 1960s. “Doc’s vision for contract interiors and passion for leading-edge design continues to thrive through the Doc competition, and our celebration of the winners,” said Gosline.
The award-winning projects will be featured in Solutia’s 2006 national advertising campaign, she added. Each firm also received an original Doc crystal sculpture by Frabel as well as a cash prize. The 2005 Doc award winners are as follows:
• Simeone Deary Design Group of Chicago, for its use of custom carpet by
Durkan Patterned Carpet. Team members included principals Lisa Simeone and Gina Deary, and the design team of Catherine Leschuck, Julie Barton-Tran, Leslie Laguna and Marina Pulliam;
• VOA Associates of Chicago for
its use of Agave by Constantine Commercial. Team members included Nick Luzietti, principal, and Yong Kyung In, Tom Erdelac, Rika Semba, Edward Maczka and Katie Bowman;
• Burkett Design of Denver, for its use of Pulse by
Shaw Industries. Team members included principals Amy Burkett and Michele Ponicsan, and the design team of Melissa Shelton Goldstein and Camille Friend, and
• OWP/P of Chicago, for its use of Flux, Pulse and Paparazzi by Shaw. Team members included Mark Hirons and Lance Yeary.
Product Design awards went to:
• Fortune Contract of Dalton for Space Guy;
• Constantine Commercial located in Dalton for Concert;
• Cadence by Clayton Miller of Dalton for Coda;
•
Bentley Prince Street of City of Industry, Calif., for Blue Highway;
• J&J Invision of Dalton for its Weave design, and
• Constantine Commercial for Classic Collection.
Honorable mentions went to Lorenz Williams of Dayton, Ohio, for the McCormick Building; Gensler of San Francisco and MCM Interiors of Vancouver, B.C., for Nokia Vancouver Product Creation Center; H. Hendy Associates of Newport Beach, Calif., for Umenohana Restaurant; HOK of Washington, D.C., for Chevy Chase Land Co. Headquarters; HLW of Santa Monica, Calif., for HBO; Gensler of Morristown, N.J., for Sun Chemical; Jova/Daniels/Busby of Atlanta for Carlton Fields; lauckgroup of Dallas for American Eurocopter, and TVS Interiors of Chicago for Kimball Office Showrooms.
The independent panel of jurors for the competition included: Todd Baisch, AIA, RID, LEED of Gensler in Chicago; Naomi Asai of DMJM in Los Angeles; Lewis Goetz, FIIDA, FAIA of Group Goetz in Washington, D.C., and Carolyn Iu, AIA of Iu + Bibliowicz Architects in New York.
