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Lighting of the Lamp to mark the Inauguration of IIID AnCHOR national Awards nite at ItC Gardenia, Bengaluru. seen in the picture from are (L to R): Mr. Ravi Mohite, Mr. Ashok Gangar, Mr. nitin saolapurkar, Mr. tushar Desai and Ms. Leena Kumar
The hugely awaited culmination of country’s prestigious Awards Programme of the year saw some of the most celebrated interior
designers and architects from across the country. Honours bestowed, awards conferred, smiles shared and creativity applauded – IIID Anchor
Awards 2013 had it all! With interior design reaching a new high in the country, the scrutiny level was raised too. But the 579 entries for the
awards reflected the unflinching confidence of the participants.
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1. national Jury member Ar. Ratan Batliboi addressing the Awardees as editors Maria Louis & Falguni Padode look on
regional level across 5 different zones, Mumbai and Thane in Mumbai, rest of Maharashrtra in Nagpur, Gujrat in Rajkot, North and east at Indore and South in Kochi. The herculean task was successfully carried out by Leena Kumar, member of IIID Awards Committee. The effectiveness of this strategy gives the participants to compete with their regional counterparts first round and the best amongst them, gets to contend at the National level. The format ensures widespread participation and aims to bring into spotlight, talent from across the country.
During the media meet, Tushar Desai, IIID Awards Committee Chairman, addressed the media on the ideologies of IIID and the role of the prestigious awards. He elaborated, “These awards are a quest to find people who are path breakers and torch bearers in search of excellence.IIID firmly believes that to award excellence, it must pursue and achieve excellence with highest possible integrity in conducting every single aspect of the awards programme. It is completely committed to create the best platform for participants, the best jury process, the best awards experience and the best awards validation for the winners.”The IIID Awards Programme primarily
March 22, 2014 – a day marked in the calendars of the entire interior design fraternity! It was a day, when all members of the field gathered to share their body of work, discuss the future of interior design and above all, felicitate the best among them. The Institute of Indian Interior Designers (IIID) initiated the Awards Programme to acknowledge the exemplary work in the field of Interior Design from the year 1996.In 2011, ANCHOR by PANASONIC joined hands in the endeavour of IIID and since then the awards are popularly known as the IIID ANCHOR Awards.
The National Awards Nite was scheduled to start at 6:30 pm at ITC Gardenia, in the Garden City of India, Bengaluru. With anticipation at its peak, the crowd started pouring in quite early. The stage got its finishing touches; work of the participants orderly displayed in panels, lighting tested, tables immaculately set with flowers and candles, waiting to be lit. The OSCARS of the Indian Interior Design was ready for a showcase.
Design Media Meet
Prior to the main event, the press meet provided a networking platform between the designers and the outside world. The awards were first conducted at the
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2. Members of the fraternity gathered to share their body of work, discuss the future of interior design and above all, felicitate the best among them
fulfills the following objectives:
• Provideacommonplatformtoshowcase and share design solutions for various spaces & applications in response to the changing social needs
• EstablishbenchmarksinInteriorDesign
• Providecuestotheentiredesignfraternity through those benchmarks
• Createopportunitiesforintrospection
The pre-event meet was significant, because the Jury Members and shortlisted Awardees including young design enthusiasts reviewed the steps of IIID’s initiative to spread awareness about the field. The need of “Indian identity” as a concept in design was debated. The exchange of views brought out aspects like design detail as a meaningful measure of good design, in addition to primary features like context of site and client’s needs.
Jury Members
The jury had a mix of prominent academicians, illustrious architects and Interior Designers, distinguished media professionals and noted past award
winners. The 26 member Jury Panel comprised of –
Ambrish Arora (Lotus, New Delhi), Anil Salian (Anil Salian and Associates, Mumbai),Canna Patel (Chair person HCPIA, Ahmedabad), Itty Zachariah (Zachariah consultants, Bangalore), Kaiwan Mehta (Managing editor magazine, DOMUS INDIA, Mumbai), Mahesh Nagecha (Professor Sarvajanik College of engineering & Technology, Surat), Mangala Chandran (editor: Buildotech,Clean India journal, Traffic Infrastructure&Waste Recycling India, Mumbai), Martand Khosla (partner of RKDS, New Delhi), Meghal Arya (Associate Professor CePT, Ahmedabad), Nina Puri (Interior Designer, Mumbai), Philip Fowler (Flower and Flower, Coimbatore),Preeti Singh (editor: Home & Design Trends and BBC Knowledge for Worldwide Media, Times group, Mumbai), Rajendra Dongre (Partner with A.B Dongre Architects, Nagpur), Rajiv Kasat (RKA, Mumbai), Ranjana Mital (Professor SPA, Delhi), Ratan Batliboi(Ratan J Batliboi- Architects, Mumbai), Ratan Shivkumar (Deputy Director at KamlaRahejaVidyanidhi Institute of Architecture and environmental Studies, Mumbai), S. Badrinarayananis (Architect, Delhi),
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Prof. S.Balaram (Coimbatore), Saurabh Malpani (Co-founder Artha studio, Pune), Sanjay Agarwal (FRDC, Bengaluru), Shilpa Gore Shah (S+PS Architects, Mumbai), Shrikant Nivasarkar(Architect and Furniture designer, Pune), Sonali Bhagwati (cofounder Spazzio, New Delhi), Vertica Dvivedi (Surfaces Reporter magazine, Director : BigseaMarcom (I) Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi.), Y. D. Pitkar (Senior Associate Upasana Design Cell, Mumbai).
Bimal Mistry, Member of IIID Awards Committee, gave insights on the IIID Awards methodology emphasising the transparent judging process; the jury members did not adapt to vote but chose a winner with mutual consent, the arguments and discussions were video recorded and later shown to the audience. He also stated that the winning entries would be documented and published as a journal. “All the winners, a motley group of 21 from 579, can feel very proud of their efforts as the jury, comprising of some of the finest minds in the country has been extremely demanding and unforgiving. They truly represent the best in the country and IIID salutes them for leading the way,“ said Tushar Desai, Vice President IIID, on the noteworthy jury panel. Adding to the same, Ashok Gangar, Vice President – Sales and Marketing, Anchor electrical Pvt Ltd said,”eminent architects, Interior Designers, design consultants and editors forming the jury for this competition aids in constantly raising the level of competition and bar of excellence.”
The winners were selected on the basis of six criteria: Originality; Innovation and Creativity; Functionality;efficiency &Fidelity to the Client’s Brief; Contextual Reference & environmental Concerns; Detailing & Use of Materials; Cohesion to Concept in Design Development;and Sensorial & Spatial experiences.
The Evening
The evening started off with a welcoming traditional song to invoke the blessings of Goddess Saraswati by
Malini Chadaga. Chairperson of the IIID Bangalore Regional Chapter, Bindi Saolapurkar was elated to have the coveted award function hosted in the city. Her speech brought out the active involvement of the chapter in “unifying the design fraternity and strengthening interior design profession” by means of various programmes. To continue with the spirit of awarding creative excellence, she ended her talk by quoting Mary Lou, “Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun.”
President Talks
Nitin Saolapurkar, President IIID, greeted the audience and shared the journey and vision of IIID,“Started in a garage 40 years ago, IIID embarked to spot, recognise excellence in interior design and to boost the creativity and enthusiasm of the young, upcoming professionals.” He said, “It is comm-enced to raise consciousness about design in our society, which would aid us to bring about a change in the quality of living.” IIID is working towards setting an Archive cell, which would trace the history of IIID and its achievement, adding value to the current position it has acquired.As the President of IIID, Nitin Saolapurkar strongly felt the need
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3. Chairperson of the IIID Bangalore Regional Chapter, Bindi saolapurkar was elated to have the coveted award function hosted in the city
4. nandini shankar, executive Committee Member of IIID, introducing the stalwarts
5. nitin saolapurkar, President IIID, greeted the audience and shared the journey and vision of IIID
6. Bimal Mistry, Member of IIID Awards Committee explaining the methodology of selection process
7. Past Vice President (trade), Mr. Rajan Bahry being felicitated for his services to the fraternity
8. IIID veteran and statesman, Ramesh Khanna was felicitated for his service to IIID for 10 years
9. Ramesh Daswani was felicitated for his proactive role in IFI related events and formation of IIID Pune Chapter
10. Past Vice President (trade), Mr. Kashyap Patwa instrumental in formulating the IIID Awards, being felicitated
11. A special honour of Fellow Membership of IIID was given to Bankim Dave, an exemplary Past President
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to ensure that good standard of design education is available and imparted to the young. He revealed that IIID is charting down the syllabus for Interior Design education and working towards making IIID a regulatory body, which will set standards for Interior Design as a profession. The IIID 2013 National Awards Nite was a gratifying night for him as few of the IIID Past Presidents and members, whose noteworthy contribution helped in shaping IIID, were being honoured. He was proud that IIID received a record breaking number of entries, which spanned across 18 categories for the IIID 2013 Anchor Awards and he only hoped that the number would increase every year.
IIID and Anchor Collaboration
IIID with a base membership of 8000 professionals and trade members across 28 chapters and centres is one of the most active professional bodies with influential presence in the field. It was founded to establish healthy trade practices and enhance the image of Interior Design Profession. Since 2011, it has joined hands with ANCHOR by Panasonic, a 50-year-old company. Anchor, part of Panasonic Corporation, commits itself towards enriching lives of people in the nation through its excellence in product design, aiding IIID’s vision of fostering excellence in interior design. The synergy of these two bodies saw the participation jump from 265 to 579 entries in three years. Their association with IIID expands the boundaries of interior design to new paradigms. Ashok Gangar expressed his gratification to the alliance and said, “It is an honour to be associated with the most prestigious award of the design fraternity. We are pleased to be a part of such an initiative that not only helps the professionals but also the upcoming designers to exhibit their skills and talent.” Sunil Ramteke, National Head, Anchor by Panasonic added that they were proud to partner with IIID for the credibility it had achieved. He further praised the impartial decision making processand proudly stated that IIID has
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12. the evening saw a Jazz performance by Aarti Rao and the Kaya Quintet group
13. IIID stalwarts at the exhibition of winning entries (L to R): nitin saolapurkar, Rohit Ganatra, Ramesh Daswani and Ashok Butala
14–15. the works of the winning entries were exhibited and the creativity and talent of one and all was well appreciated
never honoured any specific architect out of personal interest.
Honours Bestowed
Nandini Shankar, executive Committee Member, IIID introduced the individuals who made selfless contribution to IIID. These members have served to create a vision for IIID and have play a vital role in bringing it to the current stature and were duly honoured at the award function.
Rajan Bahry was the recipient of the first honour. He took the initiative to sponsor IIID’s first newsletter and journal. He was the publisher of IIID’s first book on Residential Interiors in 1988.
IIID veteran and Statesman, Ramesh Khanna was the next to be felicitated. He has dedicated his service to IIID for 10 years, switching between Treasurer and Vice President Trade under many Presidents.
Ramesh Daswani, observed by many as a dynamic team participant, is known
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for his proactive role in IFI related events, especially the Design Sutra. He is the man who contributed a lot to the formation of IIID Pune Chapter.
Kashyap Patwa, another legacy creator, is the former Vice President of IIID. He has been lauded and appreciated as the “perfect advisor” in the role of Vice President. He has been instrumental in setting up IIID Mumbai office premises and also initiating IIID Awards. He has been the Co-Chairman of the Awards Committee for 15 years and has worked tirelessly to advance the growth of the Institute.
A special honour of Fellow Membership of IIID was given to Bankim Dave, an exemplary Past President. He is one of the most highly respected individuals and under his able leadership, IIID’s presence grew in all spheres.
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16. Mr. Kanhai Gandhi and shresht Kashyap of Kns Architects Pvt. Ltd. receiving national winner trophy for Retail Category
17. Ms. samira Rathod of samira Rathod Associates receiving national winner trophy for Commerical Workplace Large Category
18. Mr. Hiren Patel of Hiren Patel Architects receiving national winner trophy for Institutional Category
The National Awardees
After informative talks by different members, the evening saw a Jazz performance by the group-Aarti Rao and the Kaya Quintet. The show was quite mesmerising. But the anticipation of the award winners doubled.
It is indeed quite a merit for a professional to be honoured by a fellow professional. Contesting in what is considered as the OSCARS of Interior Design is not an easy task and receiving an award is undoubtedly praiseworthy.
Category: Residential Single Dwelling
NATIONAL COMMENDATION: Group 4 Architects, Mumbai
Category: Residential Multi Dwelling Small
NATIONAL COMMENDATION: Rahul & Associates, Sangli
Category: Residential Multi Dwelling Large
NATIONAL RUNNER UP: LAB: Language Architecture Body, Mumbai
Category: Retail
NATIONAL WINNER: KNS Architects Pvt. Ltd., MumbaiNATIONAL RUNNER UP: Common Ground Architecture, Calicut,NATIONAL RUNNER UP: Architecture Discipline
Category: Commercial Work place Small
NATIONAL COMMENDATION: The Ashleys, MumbaiNATIONAL COMMENADTION: Sparsh, Rajkot
Category: Commercial Work Place Large
NATIONAL WINNER: Samira Rathod Design Associates, MumbaiNATIONAL RUNNER UP: Sujit Nair Design Group, BangaloreNATIONAL COMMENDATION: Kamat & Rozario Architecture, BangaloreNATIONAL COMMENDATION: Team 3, New Delhi
Category: Hospitality
NATIONAL COMMENDATION: Tejal Mathur, Mumbai NATIONAL COMMENDATION: Sanctuary Architects & Designers, Bangalore
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Category: Wellness Spaces
NATIONAL RUNNER UP: M:OFA Studios Pvt Ltd, New Delhi NATIONAL COMMENDATION: Maya Praxis, Bangalore
Category: Health Care
NATIONAL RUNNeR UP: Lovekar Design Associates, Pune
Category: Institutional
NATIONAL WINNER: Hiren Patel Architects, AhmedabadNATIONAL COMMENDATION: Cadence Architecture &Interior Design, Bangalore
Category: Use of Traditional Crafts
NATIONAL RUNNER UP: Kaaru, New Delhi
Category: Furniture Design
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Category: Innovation and Affordable InteriorsNO AWARDeeS
Category: Young Designer of the Year
NO AWARDeeS
Category: Public and Social Spaces
NO AWARDeeS
Category: Sustainable Interior Design
NO AWARDeeS
Category: Global Indian Practice of the Year
NATIONAL RUNNER UP: Moriq, Hyderabad
Category: International Practice (In India) of the year
NO AWARDeeS
Many Congratulations to all the Awardees. The National Award winners automatically qualify for Asia Pacefic Space Designer’s Association Awards.
Curtains Closed
After months of preparation and organisation, the show ended in high spirits. Some of the best works in the field was celebrated. Sigh of relief was seen on many faces, noise decibels increased, the food and wine added to the mood. The winners were smiling and the ones who did not win were determined to bounce back. Such was the magic of IIID Anchor Awards!
every year, IIID in their endeavour hopes to bring out new talent and commendable work in the eyes of the public. You have 365 days in your hand, unleash your creativity, bring out the best in you with your projects and see your name in the HALL OF FAMe for INTeRIOR DeSIGN. •
19. nitin saolapurkar addressing the media meet while shrikant nivasarkar looks on
20. tushar Desai, IIID Awards Commiittee Chairman, addressing the members of media
21. exhibition of winning entries
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