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Designer Brings Home Two ASID Awards

October 13, 2021

Joan Kaufman, FASID, LEED AP, design director of Interior Planning & Design Inc., of Naperville, Ill., has been named as the winner of the 2021 ASID Celebration of Design and Design Excellence Award for Universal Design and for Millwork Design and Detail. Kaufman was selected from a variety of entries in the category. This year, the American Society of Interior Designers – Illinois Chapter (ASID-IL) celebrated their awards program the Mart River Park and Marshall’s Landing in Chicago. More than 150 designers and design enthusiasts joined together to congratulate the winners.

ASID-Illinois President Susan El-Naggar, ASID, NCIDQ, LEED Green Associate, WELL AP, and Professor Tarik El-Naggar, AIA, RA, co-hosted the event.

The Design Excellence Awards recognize design professionals that are either members of ASID or IIDA Illinois Chapters or registered interior designers in Illinois. Designers submitted their entries in more than 50 categories including residential, contract and product design.

A panel of distinguished interior design professionals from eight other ASID Chapters across the country reviewed the entries and selected category winners based on lighting, scale and proportion, color and composition, design creativity, function and solutions appropriate to the design criteria. All entrants included an IMPACT statement – a detailed explanation of how the project positively affected the users’ lives or livelihoods.

“We are exceptionally pleased to have received the two ASID awards,” said Kaufman. “The First Place – Universal Design award was for a Streamwood, Ill., accessible bathroom my team and I designed that was initially a challenge, but the end result was beautiful, functional, and provided design features that significantly improved the clients’ everyday lives in their home.”

Kaufman’s second award was First Place in the Millwork Design and Detail category for a custom wood booth and live edge island countertop in a Wheaton, Ill. home. The countertop, which separates the kitchen and family room, was created from an oak tree that was removed from the client’s yard when the home was built. Wanting to recycle the tree, a section of the trunk was cut, milled, and finished into a natural wood countertop with a “live” edge treatment.

Sponsors included: presenting sponsor Monogram and event sponsors Design Center at the Merchandise Mart, Artist Frame Service, Cambria, Crystal Head Vodka, Artistic Tile and Oscar Isberian Rugs. Modern Luxury Interiors Chicago served as the event’s exclusive luxury media partner.