FX Awards 2017: The Winners
The Judging System
The FX International Interior Design Awards is open to architects, designers, clients, and suppliers for interior design projects or products completed or launched between 20 July 2015 and 20 July 2017. The judges are an independent panel of experts who are recruited for a fresh new panel each year, and comprise engineers, clients, architects and designers from many different sectors to reflect our audience tonight.
They were invited on to the 2017 panel because of their experience, opinions, and commitment to design. Judges, and their companies, are not permitted to enter any categories.
Because of the large number of entries, and to preserve the integrity of the FX Awards, we use a transparent judging system in which each judge ranks their top six entries in each category before they know who their co-judges are.
With up to 10 judges for each of the hotly contested categories, these placings are then scored and added together to confirm the shortlist, and the ultimate winner.
Many thanks to all our judges, who gave up so much of their valuable time and brought their expertise and enthusiasm to the process. Sincere thanks also to Cherrill Scheer, who has acted in an advisory capacity as unofficial chair of the judges.
Judges
Alex Michaelis
Partner, Michaelis Boyd Associates
Michaelis Boyd Associates is an award winning architecture and interiors practice, specialising in high-end residential properties and luxury international hotels and lodges.
Alice Keown
F&B asset manager, British Land
Alice Keown is asset manager for food and beverage at British Land. She has 12 years of restaurant property experience, and joined the company from Davis Coffer Lyons in 2015.
Annabelle Filer
Founder of SCIN
SCIN is a materials library, resource and insight company working to help shift material thinking and new material adoption at the coalface between the supplier and the specifier.
Daniel Hajjar
Managing principal, HOK
Daniel is an experienced architect with more than 30 years of international experience delivering projects covering all aspects of planning, architecture and project management.
David Kramer
Creative director, Squaredot
With more than 30 years of experience in the world of furniture and commercial design, David is one of the co founders of Squaredot,launched 17 years ago, and has grown its award-winning design reputation at home and internationally.
Fiona Livingston
Co-founder, Studiofibre
Studiofibre is an accomplished ‘designermaker’. It creates beautifully branded, hand-crafted experiential retail concepts and workspaces that enhance commercial success for its leading, global, luxurybrand clients.
Giles Miller
Designer, Giles Miller Studio
Giles Miller is a ‘composer of materials’, whose London-based studio experiments in the fields of surface, sculptural and architectural design.
Gurvinder Khurana
Director & co-founder, align
Gurvinder is a co-founder of align, a dynamic and fast-growing interior architecture and design agency working in the sectors of workplace, hospitality and residential design.
Jason Turner
Principal, HLW International
Jason is principal of the London office of HLW, an international architecture and design practice with its headquarters in New York.
Jill Entwistle
Editor and author
Jill is the executive editor of Lighting (Illumination in Architecture) and the author of three books on lighting, including Detail in Contemporary Lighting Design (Laurence King). She is the editor of the first BCO Guide to Lighting.
Julian Maynard
Director, Maynard Design
Julian is founder of the international design practice Maynard, which creates wayfinding, products and environments for clients in the transport and public realm sectors.
Laura Carrara-Cagni
Director, Edward Williams Architects
Working across all sectors and internationally, the practice designs clear, beautifully crafted and sustainable buildings to complex briefs. Laura has a particular interest in natural materials and colour in architecture.
Levent Çaglar
Ergonomics consultant
Levent is the key UK expert in the design evaluation of furniture. He works with designers, architects and specifiers to create efficient work environments for the wellbeing of people.
Linzi Cassels
Principal – design director, Perkins+Will
Perkins+Will With more than 20 years of experience designing office interiors and developing workplace strategies, Linzi sits on Perkins+Will’s Global Design Board and Design Leadership Council.
Michael Fern
Principal & director, Edge
Design agency and architecture practice, Edge is a place-maker, offering an unrivalled mix of skills and services. Brand, interiors. architecture: Michael’s passion for transformational design is infectious.
Pete Champion
Group partner, director 3D Design, I-AM
I-AM Designing people-inspired experiences that create positive changes in people’s lives, I-AM is fascinated by what motivates and inspires people, studying how they think and act and changing the way they think, feel and behave.
Pete Jennings
Director, Piercy&Company Central Design Studio
Pete Jennings is a director of Piercy&Company, an architecture studio known for carefully crafted contemporary residential, commercial and civic projects in sensitive historic environments.
Sarah Godowski
Director, Bisset Adams
Sarah is a director of Bisset Adams, an innovative architecture practice with a broad portfolio including public library design, higher education, automotive retailing, workplace and listed buildings.
Sean Weston
Director, Astudio
Sean is a director at Astudio, a researchled practice with a track record of delivering innovative architecture in a wide range of sectors.
Simon Marett
Director, LOM architecture and design
LOM creates intelligent, collaborative environments for companies in the UK and around the world. Work includes complex portfolio strategies, global design standards, new buildings, workplace interiors and one-off boutique interiors.
Simon Thorp
Director, LAPD Lighting Design
Simon is a director at LAPD Lighting Design, an award-winning, freethinking, independent lighting design consultancy established in 2000.
Steve Collis
Strategic director, JHP Design
With studios in London and Seoul, JHP Design is a commercial design consultancy with retail projects throughout the world. Its strategic director Steve Collis is responsible for creating JHP’s strategic and commercial rationale.
Tim Bowder-Ridger
Senior partner / CEO, Conran and Partners
Conran and Partners is a collaborative design studio working across architecture and interior design. Tim is leading on a number of strategic projects, including the refurbishment and adaptive reuse of Centre Point Tower.
Tim Hatton
Principal, Timothy Hatton Architects
THA has an international portfolio of work in both the public and private spheres. Exquisite detailing using fine natural materials and the masterly use of space and light underpin the practice’s design approach.