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Grant and Jane Huddish. MICHELLE TRAURING
Elizabeth Lear and Brian Mahoney. MICHELLE TRAURING
Jo Ann Secor and Lee Skolnick. MICHELLE TRAURING
Mary Griffo and Brian O'Leary. MICHELLE TRAURING
The third annual HC&G Innovation in Design Award winners celebrate. MICHELLE TRAURING
Lacy Young. MICHELLE TRAURING
Lee Testa and Dennis Howard. MICHELLE TRAURING
Jennifer Bennett and Michael Tagliavia. MICHELLE TRAURING
The third annual HC&G Innovation in Design Award winners celebrate. MICHELLE TRAURING
Katherine Dalene Weil and Aaron Weil. MICHELLE TRAURING
Maurice Hamilton and Lynn Carey. MICHELLE TRAURING
Terri and Seamus Doyle. MICHELLE TRAURING
The third annual HC&G Innovation in Design Award winners celebrate. MICHELLE TRAURING
Marissa Gribbin and Jessica Boo. MICHELLE TRAURING
Judy Malone and Melissa Principi. MICHELLE TRAURING
Marjory Horowitz and Cliffeton Green. MICHELLE TRAURING
Honoree Vicente Wolf. MICHELLE TRAURING
Preston Bailey, Vicente Wolf and Matthew Yee. MICHELLE TRAURING
Jason Kreth and Michelle Smith. MICHELLE TRAURING
Carolyn Pressly-Ryan and Kevin Ryan. MICHELLE TRAURING
Meaghan Dalton and Gaelin Walsh. MICHELLE TRAURING
Kimberly Eads and Kathryn Fee. MICHELLE TRAURING
Jon, Janice, Crystalyn and Kevin Hummel. MICHELLE TRAURING
Alice Serres, Jairon Dubon and Laura Serres. MICHELLE TRAURING
Dick Tarlow and Kristin Kehrberg. MICHELLE TRAURING
Seth Howe and Tamara Magel. MICHELLE TRAURING
The third annual HC&G Innovation in Design Award winners celebrate. MICHELLE TRAURING
Abigail and Paul Vogel. MICHELLE TRAURING
Erica Millar and Russell Riccardi. MICHELLE TRAURING
The third annual HC&G Innovation in Design Award winners celebrate. MICHELLE TRAURING
Arthur Beckenstein and John O'Rourke. MICHELLE TRAURING
The third annual HC&G Innovation in Design Award winners celebrate. MICHELLE TRAURING
Pamela Eldridge and Kendell Cronstrom. MICHELLE TRAURING
Pamela Eldridge and Kendell Cronstrom. MICHELLE TRAURING
Mixing and mingling outside Guild Hall. MICHELLE TRAURING
The third annual HC&G Innovation in Design Award winners celebrate. MICHELLE TRAURING
Claudia Pilato and Kevin O'Connor. MICHELLE TRAURING
Skye and Michael Westcott. MICHELLE TRAURING
Anthony Baratta. MICHELLE TRAURING
Beata Pisalska, Ken Saretsky, Agnes Szymacha, Agnes Pisalska, Maggie Tibett and Jon Tibett. MICHELLE TRAURING
Tim Street-Porter and Annie Kelly. MICHELLE TRAURING
The third annual HC&G Innovation in Design Award winners celebrate. MICHELLE TRAURING
Christopher Musto and Kristine King. MICHELLE TRAURING
The third annual HC&G Innovation in Design Award winners celebrate. MICHELLE TRAURING
The third annual HC&G Innovation in Design Award winners celebrate. MICHELLE TRAURING
Fawn Galli and Jennifer Chused. MICHELLE TRAURING
Angela and Eric Schultzel. MICHELLE TRAURING
Ani Antreasyan, Elizabeth Dow and Emily Benedek. MICHELLE TRAURING
Rob Coburn, Quinn Pofahl, Jaime Jimenez and Carlos Arena. MICHELLE TRAURING
Milly de Cabrol and Cami Weinstein. MICHELLE TRAURING
Lorin Klaris. MICHELLE TRAURING
Jamie Drake and Michael Siegel. MICHELLE TRAURING
Marianne Howatson and Robert Stilin. MICHELLE TRAURING
Jodi and Scott Markoff. MICHELLE TRAURING
Tasleema Brevard and Eliza Gatfield. MICHELLE TRAURING
Johanna Rivera, Priscilla Thambiah and Carolyn Pressly-Ryan. MICHELLE TRAURING
The third annual HC&G Innovation in Design Award winners celebrate. MICHELLE TRAURING
Mixing and mingling outside Guild Hall. MICHELLE TRAURING
The third annual HC&G Innovation in Design Award winners celebrate. MICHELLE TRAURING
Mixing and mingling outside Guild Hall. MICHELLE TRAURING
Dottie Simons presents Katherine Dalene Weil of Bates Masi + Architects with the award for Innovation in Kitchen Design. MICHELLE TRAURING
Dottie Simons, left, presents Katherine Dalene Weil and Aaron Weil of Bates Masi + Architects with the award for Innovation in Kitchen Design. MICHELLE TRAURING
Dottie Simons, left, presents Katherine Dalene Weil and Aaron Weil of Bates Masi + Architects with the award for Innovation in Kitchen Design. MICHELLE TRAURING
Jamie Drake, left, presents Nick Martin of Martin Architects with the runner-up prize for Innovation in Bath Design. He also received the runner-up award for Innovative Product Design. MICHELLE TRAURING
Jamie Drake, left, presents a representative from Stelle Lomont Rouhani Architects with the award for Innovation in Bath Design. MICHELLE TRAURING
Dennis Howard, left, presents Zachary Crawford of Landscape Details with the runner-up prize for Innovation in Garden Design. MICHELLE TRAURING
Dennis Howard, left, presents Edmund Hollander of Edmund Hollander Landscape Architect with the award for Innovation in Garden Design. MICHELLE TRAURING
Dennis Howard, left, presents Edmund Hollander of Edmund Hollander Landscape Architect with the award for Innovation in Garden Design. MICHELLE TRAURING
Edmund Hollander of Edmund Hollander Landscape Architect won the award for Innovation in Garden Design. MICHELLE TRAURING
Preston Bailey introduces honoree Vicente Wolf. MICHELLE TRAURING
Preston Bailey and honoree Vicente Wolf embrace. MICHELLE TRAURING
Preston Bailey and Vicente Wolf embrace. MICHELLE TRAURING
Preston Bailey and Vicente Wolf embrace. MICHELLE TRAURING
Innovator Award recipient Vicente Wolf gives a speech. MICHELLE TRAURING
Innovator Award recipient Vicente Wolf gives a speech. MICHELLE TRAURING
Allison Bourquin, left, presents Tamara Magel of Tamara Magel Lifestyle with the runner-up prize for Innovation in Interior Design. MICHELLE TRAURING
Allison Bourquin, left, presents Erica Millar of Erica Millar Design with the award for Innovation in Interior Design. MICHELLE TRAURING
John Taranto, left, presents Russell Riccardi of Russell Riccardi Architects the runner-up prize for Innovation in Architecture Design. MICHELLE TRAURING
John Taranto, left, presents a representative from Stelle Lomont Rouhani Architects with the award for Innovation in Architecture Design. MICHELLE TRAURING
Kendell Cronstrom presents Eliza Gatfield of Custom Cool Rugs the award for Innovative Product Design. MICHELLE TRAURING
Kendell Cronstrom presents Eliza Gatfield of Custom Cool Rugs the award for Innovative Product Design. MICHELLE TRAURING
Kendell Cronstrom presents Eliza Gatfield of Custom Cool Rugs the award for Innovative Product Design. MICHELLE TRAURING
The third annual HC&G Innovation in Design Award winners celebrate. MICHELLE TRAURING MICHELLE TRAURING
Cynthia Saxe, Bobby Kaufmann, Kathy Stuart and John Taranto. MICHELLE TRAURING
Big names in architecture, interior and landscape design packed into Guild Hall on Thursday, August 8, to celebrate the third annual “HC&G Innovation in Design Awards” sponsored by Hamptons Cottages and Design magazine, this year honoring Vicente Wolf.
Innovator Award presenter Preston Bailey described the Manhattan-based interior designer, and his best friend, as hardworking and “absolutely stubborn.” The event designer also credited Mr. Wolf for changing his life—by pointing him down a successful career path and, perhaps more important, transforming his apartment.
“He has, as a designer, the rare ability to see a space and understand exactly what it should look like,” Mr. Bailey said. “We had some battles. We fought and we screamed and we yelled and we called each other all kind of a name. And eventually, I said, ‘You know, Vicente, just do what you want.’ And suffice to say, my apartment turned out to be spectacular.”
To the beat of Robin Thicke’s summer hit “Blurred Lines” and in front of a standing ovation, Mr. Wolf took to the stage and was met with a bear hug from Mr. Bailey.
All smiles, he stepped up to the podium with his Innovator Award.
“I’m blushing,” he said. “I don’t know if you can see it or not.”
His speech was brief and modest. Mr. Wolf thanked a list of colleagues and reminisced about the past, while reflecting on the role of interior designers today.
“Interior designers are seen as frivolous. They’re seen as ‘spendserous,’ as silly, but we really change people’s lives,” he said. “We bring to them style. We bring to them comfort. Wonderful spaces. We open their eyes to things that could have been right in front of them that they never saw. And I think that, to me, people say, ‘Well, are you gonna retire?’ I think, ‘Am I gonna stop breathing? I don’t think so.’ Because I love doing what I do. It brings joy and pleasure every day that I go into the office.”
The overall winner in the Interior Design category was Manhattan-based Erica Millar Design, with first runner-up honors going to Tamara Magel Lifestyle from East Hampton.
The Innovation in Kitchen Design award went to Bates Masi + Architects of Sag Harbor. Bridgehampton-based Barnes Coy Architects was named first runner-up.
The overall winner in the Bath Design category was Stelle Lomont Rouhani Architects from Bridgehampton, which also took top honors in the Architecture category. The first runner-up for Architecture went to Russell Riccardi Architect from Manhattan.
The first runner-up honors in Bath Design went to Martin Architects, which also claimed the runner-up award for Innovative Product Design. The overall winner for Innovative Product Design went to Custom Cool Rugs.
Edmund Hollander Landscape Architects took the overall win for Garden Design, with first runner-up awarded to Landscape Details Inc.
“I apologize for not being Beyonce,” Mr. Hollander deadpanned, following a cue from presenter Dennis Howard, who announced the diva’s name after opening the winner envelope. “I want to thank all of the other architects and designers who are here that we get to collaborate with, because our designs really are as good as they are because of the people we work with ... So, really, thank you to all of you.”
Michelle Trauring on Aug 12, 2013