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Mannarino Designs Celebrates Award & Product Launches

October 21, 2021

Anna Maria Mannarino of Mannarino Designs Inc., an interior, event and product designer and past president of the New Jersey Chapter of ASID (ASID NJ), has expanded her product design offerings and is celebrating her 21st ASID NJ Design Excellence Award win.

One of 19 interior designers honored this year, Mannarino won in the “Design for People with Special or Specific Needs” category for her work designing the living room/dining room of a pair of doctors participating in her Your Home Collaboration project launched during the height of the pandemic to provide front-line medical professionals with free two-hour design consultations.

She is also soon debuting a line of five chandeliers with American Brass and Crystal. The first chandelier, Dripping Jewelry, already earned a Gold award last year from the ASID competition.

“Anna Maria transformed a classic design into a modern creation – an American-manufactured piece with Italian cast brass, glass arms, 30% leaded Egyptian crystal and brass chains,” said Martin Grodman, national sales manager Hospitality and Design for the Union, N.J.-based lighting brand. “We’re very excited to be working with her.”

In the textile arena, Mannarino’s rug designs for Creative Touch, a to-the-trade resource specializing in the highest quality traditional and contemporary handcrafted rugs and based in Secaucus, N.J., made a splash at the High Point Market in June and are set to make similar impact this coming market. The rugs are complemented by Mannarino’s new 16-piece collection of 22-by-22-in. printed, velvet pillows and pillowcases.