By Shawn Williams
Updated: Aug 28, 2021
SEATTLE, WA — November 30, 2017 — GRAY Magazine is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2017 GRAY Awards—a cross-disciplinary, design awards program.
Designers and manufacturers were invited to submit design projects across ten categories plus an “editors’ pick” Design for Good category. An esteemed panel of international design stars—including Philippe Starck, Ingo Maurer, Deborah Berke, Karim Rashid, Vicente Wolf, James Corner (Field Operations), Roman Alonso and Steven Johanknecht (Commune Design), and Olivia Kim (Vice President of Creative Projects, Nordstrom)—worked with the GRAY editorial team to select a winner from each category.
GRAY Award winners were revealed last night at the design event of the year at Seattle’s prestigious new event space, The Sanctuary, designed by Philippe Starck in concert with Daniels Real Estate and ZGF Architects. Breaking all the rules of traditional awards programming, GRAY surprised attendees with a splashy big reveal, with all the judges announcing the winners on video, a live performance by the band Smokey Brights, and the debut of a special gold-leafed December/January Awards issue, presented with great fanfare and a surprise appearance by the University of Washington Marching Band.
Amidst a glittering shower of confetti, winners received a custom contemporary glass art trophy, handcrafted exclusively for the GRAY Awards by the critically acclaimed Seattle artist John Hogan. Winners also received a press kit from GRAY Award media partner v2com, distributed to its international database of journalists.
GRAY is also thrilled to share that with 50% of the party ticket proceeds, as well as generous donations from attendees, it was able to donate over $13,000 to the event charity partner, the BLOCK Project, a non-profit program founded by architects and dedicated to alleviating homelessness in Seattle.
WINNERS
Architecture – Commercial
Washington Fruit & Produce Company Headquarters
Graham Baba Architects
Architecture – Residential
Bear Run Cabin
David Coleman Architecture
Fashion Design – Apparel, Accessories
Legion
SCHAI
Interior Design – Commercial
Bauhaus Restaurant
Andrea Greenway Interior Design
Interior Design – Residential
Cliffwood
Finley Grace Design
Landscape Design – Civic, Residential
National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol
Product Design – Lighting, Furniture
Whorl Console
Neal Aronowitz Design,
Product Design – Other
PlusMinus
Erdem Selek
Student Design
Cube^3
Western Washington University
Wild Card
Ice Cube
Olson Kundig
Design For Good
Treeline Village
SRG Partnership, Inc.
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