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Designs by Mac Stopa and Massive Design Win a Record-Breaking 3 Best of Year Awards and 3 Honoree Awards at Interior Design Magazine’s Best of Year Awards 2014

On December 4, 2014 over 1,000 people from the design community (designers and manufacturers) gathered at the state-of-the-art Frank Gehry design IAC Building at 555 West 18^th Street in NYC to celebrate the 9^th Annual Interior Design Best of Year Awards 2014 honoring the industry’s outstanding projects and products.

Winners were announced live by hosts Cindy Allen, Interior Design editor in chief, and Mark Strauss, president and publisher. Below are some of the highlights from this year’s event. For more information, click on the following links: Find us on Facebook/Design by Mac Stopa and interiordesign.net.

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The award-winning Breaking Form modular carpet collection designed by Mac Stopa in collaboration with the Mohawk Group was introduced at NeoCon 2014, North America’s largest design exposition for commercial interiors. Over 40,000 people from more than 78 countries attended the show from June 9 – 11. Architects, designers and other industry professionals visited the Mohawk Group’s third floor showroom at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago for the launching of the Mohawk Group’s never-before-seen Breaking Form collection. With Breaking Form, Mac successfully transforms the floor – a two-dimensional product – into something three-dimensional. The collection received the Best of NeoCon Editors’ Choice Award for modular carpet, which was announced on Monday, June 9 at the Best of NeoCon Awards Breakfast hosted by Contract magazine. In addition to the Mohawk showroom, Breaking Form was exhibited during NeoCon at the Kinzie Street entrance to the Merchandise Mart and in the building’s main elevator banks.

For more information about Breaking Form, visit www.neocon.mohawkgroup.com.

Interior Design’s Honoring Industry People (HIP) and Design Solutions Awards celebrated the HIPPEST in the commercial design industry at NeoCon 2014 in an awards ceremony hosted by Interior Design’s editor in chief Cindy Allen and president and publisher Mark Strauss. Massive Design’s Mac Stopa received a HIP Product Designer Honoree Award for exceptional and exemplary work in product design, while the WHY Y LVT collection that Mac designed in collaboration with Mohawk won a HIP Use of Color Award. The celebration was held on June 10 in the Atrium on the 8^th floor of the Merchandise Mart in Chicago with many of the award winners in attendance.

Click here to see more images of the HIPPEST in the commercial design industry.

The Hybrid Collection by Mac Stopa for Casali was introduced during Salone del Mobile 2014 in Milan. The Hybrid Collection featuring three-dimensional glass has its genesis in the synergy between Mac’s passion for creating innovative design based on digital geometries and organic random geometries created by nature and the use of high technology in production and high quality craftsmanship of Italian glass manufacturer Casali. The transparency on glass coordinated with the 3D patterns creates a three-dimensional spherical effect with morphed movement producing multiple artistic expressions. The Hybrid Collection was recognized as being one of the most innovative products exhibited at the show.

Mac’s Table and the Tako chair designed by Mac Stopa for Tonon also debuted at Salone del Mobile 2014. Mac’s Table is an innovative new table system with a modular sculptural leg that offers unlimited possibilities. The leg’s reversible geometry allows for creating an infinite number of table base compositions as well as multiple matching table top shapes and dimensions in a variety of materials. The Tako chair is a sleek modern chair with an organic vibe. Made of soft touch medium density integral polyurethane foam, Tako has a sculptural-shaped backrest, whose organic geometry flows fluently into the geometry of the chair’s wooden legs, producing one sleek form made from two different materials. Tako is also available in finished premium leather and fabric. Both Tako and Mac’s Table were exhibited in a variety of finishes and colors at the Salone.

The exhibition was held from April 8 – 13 at Fiera Rho in Milan. Truly international in scope, the Salone welcomed a total of 311,781 members of the trade, of which 205,464 were from other countries than the host country of Italy, with an additional 39,000 members of the general public and over 6,000 communications professionals also attending.

For more information about the Hybrid Collection, visit: www.casali.net

For more information about Mac’s Table and Tako chair, visit: www.tononitalia.com and www.tononitalia.it

The Ghelamco Arena interiors project by Mac Stopa and Massive Design was honored with an Interiors Award in the sports category during the 35th Annual Interiors Awards presented by Contract magazine. Contract’s editor in chief John Czarnecki hosted the awards ceremony held on January 24, 2014 at Cipriani on 42nd Street in New York City with more than 550 people in attendance. The five members of the competition’s jury – design leaders from across the United States – selected winners in 14 categories from nearly 400 excellent entries received from around the world. Each of the winning projects is located in a different city in the US, Canada, Spain, Austria, Belgium and Japan. According to the jury, each project “has a distinctive sense of place” and “strong design concepts closely tied to the characteristics and architecture of the buildings.”

www.contractdesign.com, www.ghelamco.be

On December 5, 2013 over 900 people from the design community (designers and manufacturers) gathered at the state of the art Frank Gehry design IAC Building at 555 West 18th Street in NYC to celebrate the 2013 Best of Year Awards honoring the industry’s outstanding projects and products.

Winners were announced live by hosts Cindy Allen, Interior Design editor in chief, and Mark Strauss, president and
publisher. Below are some of the highlights from this spectacular event.