2017 Houston PaperCity Design Awards: And the Winners Are…

The annual Houston PaperCity Design Awards elicited 291 outstanding entries in 18 categories, with more than 2,000 project images downloaded into digital libraries for our judges — designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard from Los Angeles, architect Peter Pennoyer from New York, designer Katie Ridder from New York, and designer Mark D. Sikes from Los Angeles. We present the winning projects here, and in the October 2017 issue of PaperCity magazine.

The awards celebration kicked off the inaugural Texas Design Week Houston on Monday night. The evening began with cocktails and small bites from Canopy in the beautiful West Avenue Texas Design Week Event Venue, designed by Richard Flowers of The Events Company. The awards presentation followed, with awards presented by judges Martyn Lawrence Bullard and Mark D. Sikes. Christofle’s Houston general manager Fausto Villeda presented the winners with stunning Andrée Putman-designed engraved silver trays. The celebration continued at the after-party, with Bullard and Sikes signing their latest books.

Watch for the October 2017 issue of PaperCity magazine for more on the winning projects. To purchase tickets for Texas Design Week, which runs through Friday, May 19, go to texasdesignweek.com.

Residential Interior Design Over 3,500 Square Feet

Firm: Found, for Found co-owner Ruth Davis’s home

Lead Designer: Aaron Rambo

Lead Architect: André De Jean, Reagan | André Architecture

Runner-Up: Lucas Eilers Design Associates, Sarah Eilers and Laura Rickaway

Residential Architectural Design Over 3,500 Square Feet

Firm: Mann Designs

Lead Designer: Shannon Mann

Lead Architects: Reagan Miller, Reagan | André Architecture

Landscape architect: Kainer & Kainer Landscaping

Runner-Up (tie): Two projects from Jerry Hooker, Mirador Group

Residential Interior Design Under 3,500 Square Feet

Firm: Creative Tonic

Lead Designer: Courtnay Tartt Elias with Lila Chumbley

Runner-Up (tie): Lucinda Loya, Lucinda Loya Interiors; Margaret Naeve Parker, M. Naeve

Residential Architectural Design Under 3,500 Square Feet

Firm: StudioMet

Lead Architect: Shawn Gottschalk

Runner-Up: Brett Zamore, Brett Zamore Design.

Residential Interior Design or Architectural Design Singular Space – Bedroom (Tie)

Firms: Biscuit and Kemble Interiors

Biscuit Lead Designer: Bailey McCarthy

Kemble Interiors Lead Designer: Lindsey Herod

Runner-Up (tie): Courtnay Elias, Creative Tonic; Paloma Contreras, Paloma Contreras Design

Residential Interior Design or Architectural Design Singular Space – Kitchen

Firm: Meg Lonergan Interiors

Lead Designer: Meg Lonergan

Runner-Up: Michael Viviano, Viviano Viviano

Residential Interior Design or Architectural Design, Bath

Firm: Dreamscape Modern Builders for the Art Colony

Lead Architectural Designer: Michael Wiglesworth

Runner-Up: Michael Viviano, Viviano Viviano

Residential Interior or Architectural Design — Children’s Room

Firm: Biscuit

Lead Designer: Bailey McCarthy

Architect: Bill Curtis, Curtis & Windham Architects.

Runner-Up: Bailey McCarthy, Biscuit — a sweep.

Residential Interior or Architectural Design Dining or Entertaining Space

Firm: Creative Tonic

Lead Designer: Courtnay Tartt Elias with Lila Chumbley

Runner-Up: Bailey McCarthy, Biscuit

Residential Interior Design or Architectural Design – Use of Small Space

Firm: Creative Tonic

Lead Designer: Courtnay Tartt Elias with Lila Chumbley

Runners-Up (tie): Victoria Goldstein, VG Studio and Bailey McCarthy, Biscuit

Hospitality Interior Design or Architectural Design: Hotel, Restaurant or Club

Firm: Gensler for Watermark Baton Rouge, an Autograph Collection Hotel

Principal in Charge: Greg LaCour

Principal: Nancy Nodler

Designer: Doug Detiveaux

Architect: Benjamin Nanson

Runners-Up (tie): Elizabeth Ingram, Elizabeth Ingram Studio for State of Grace Restaurant; Kelie Mayfield and Erick Ragni, MaRS with Paige and Smoot Hull for The Vintage Round Top BOHO cottage.

Retail Interior Design or Architectural Design

Firm: Rottet Studio for Bernhardt Design Showroom NYC.

Lead Designer: Lauren Rottet, with David Davis, Josef Jelinek, Harout Dedeyan, James Cull, Ashley Liu, Kefan Lu, Laurence Cartledge

Runner-Up: Content Architecture, for Paloma Nails salon. Jesse Hager, Heather Rowell, Eric Hughes, Gail Chen

Commercial Interior Design or Architectural Design: Office, Theater, Spiritual or Public Space

Firm: Gensler for River Oaks District

Principals in Charge: Hal Sharp and Marty Borko

Principal/Project Manager: Brooks Howell

Project Manager: Jeff Walker

Principal/Design Director: Duncan Paterson

Architects: Lisa Pauli, John Cho, Shailesh Virlley, and Michael Knight

Runner-Up (tie): Marie Flanigan, Marie Flanigan Interiors for Mercedes-Benz Sugarland showroom; Rame and Russell Hruska, Intexure Architects for Quantlab Financial stair

Historical, Restoration/Preservation: Residential

Firm: Mann Designs, for Marigny historical renovation in New Orleans

Lead Designer: Shannon Mann, with Laura Roach, Tricia Crane, Kandice Eiskant, and Gabriela Fenton

Architect: studioWTA

Runner-Up: Laura F. Michaelides, Four Square Design Studio for the 1920s Dentler Building; Linda Eyles, Linda Eyles Design for 16^th Street Queen Anne Home

Historical, Restoration/Preservation: Commercial

Jon Deal, The Deal Company

Architect: Lettie Harrell, LH2 Architecture for The Silos on Sawyer

Runner-Up: Page. Lead designers Kari Brown, Arturo Chavez, Matthew S. Cohen, Alberto Govela, Ptah Harding, Jeffrey Mechlem, Jr., Robert H. Owens, Mete Sonmez for the Esperson building interior renovations

Residential Landscape Design

Firm: Virginia W. Kelsey, AIA

Lead architect: Virginia Kelsey

Runner-Up: Lanson Jones, Lanson B. Jones & Co.

Best in Furniture Design, Single Piece or Collection

Firm: Mecox for Mecox Private Label Collection

Lead Designer: Mac Hoak

Runners-Up (4-way tie): Jillian O’Neill, Jillian O’Neill Interiors & Collection for the Jillian O’Neill Collection; Katie Scott, Katie Scott Design for the Alley bench; Kelie Mayfield, MaRS for Motile; and Gin Braverman, gindesignsgroup for Braeswood residence table

Best in Product Design, Single Piece or Collection

Firm: Matt Camron Rugs & Tapestries, for the Eileen from the Minimalist Collection

Lead Designer: Elizabeth Esfahani

Runners-Up (tie): Elizabeth Esfahani, Matt Camron Rugs again for the Khotan reinterpreted (a sweep); Courtnay Tartt Elias, Creative Tonic for a bespoke tie rack

The 2017 Houston PaperCity Design Awards Judges

Martyn Lawrence Bullard, who came to Houston to present the awards, is a member of the Architectural Digest AD 100 and Elle Decor A-List. His work has been published in Architectural Digest, Veranda, and Elle Decor. His newest book is Martyn Lawrence Bullard: Design and Decoration, and he has designed homes for Elton John, Cher, Tommy Hilfiger’s Miami beach house, Colony Palms Hotel in Palm Springs, and Chateau Gutsch in Switzerland, once home to Queen Victoria.

Mark D. Sikes, who came to Houston to present the awards, has published Beautiful, All American Decorating and Timeless Style, to much acclaim, and has designed the interiors of Reese Witherspoon’s Draper James boutiques, a set for screenwriter Nancy Meyers, and he has been published in Architectural Digest, Verandaand House Beautiful.

NYC-based designer Katie Ridder is a member of the Elle DecorA-List and has appeared on top 100 designer lists in House Beautiful and New York.  Her work has been published in Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, House Beautiful, Town & Country, the New York Times, and Domino and her latest book is A House in the Country (Vendome), co-authored with husband Peter Pennoyer.

NYC-based architect Peter Pennoyer is a member of the Architectural Digest AD100.  His work has appeared in Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, Veranda, and The Wall Street Journal. His clients include The Mark Hotel in New York, David Webb jewelers, and The Hotchkiss School. He is coauthor, with Anne Walker, of five books on early 20th-century American architectural practices. His most recent book is A House in the Country (Vendome), co-authored with wife Katie Ridder.

The PaperCity Design Awards and Texas Design Week Thank…

Presenting Sponsor of Houston PaperCity Design Awards and Texas Design Week — and owner of the beautiful awards event venue — West Avenue. Thank you to Darin Botelho and the Gables team.

Christofle and Houston GM Fausto Villeda, for the elegant Andre-Putman-designed engraved trays for the Winning Designers and Architects.

Thank you to Texas Design Week lead underwriters PaperCity, Alton LaDay Media, Rizzoli, David Sutherland, and Chateau Domingue, and to underwriters Viyet, Roca Tile, Found, Meredith O’Donnell Fine Furniture, Giorgetti Houston, Iconic Systems & Services, Bisto Menil, Canopy, Gables Residential, Ann Sacks, Internum, Hotel Granduca, Luxe Interiors + Design, Robert Leleux and Southern Style Now ’17, Sovereign Services, A Fare Extraordinaire, Deep Eddy Vodka, Swift + Company, Duchman Family Winery, Fall Creek Vineyards, Aztec Events & Tents, Rothko Chapel, Jazz Houston, Ringside Design.