WORKROOM COMPETITION AWARDS

Window Fashion VISION’s annual Design & Workroom Competition Awards fête the most talented members in our industry. To showcase their creativity, skills and expertise in residential and commercial designs, those who work behind the scenes took the time to let themselves be the statement piece.

Workrooms are the fabricators of homeowners’ dreams and can create magic if given the chance. The following projects are a fraction of what our industry is capable of and we invite you to find inspiration in these images.

BEDDING & PILLOWS FIRST PLACE BEDDING & PILLOWS FIRST PLACE

Addie Conte

Addie Designs

Lothian, MD

To bring the designer’s blue-hued vision to life, Addie Conte set to fabricating three flanged pillow shams, an accent bolster pillow and a duvet cover using Quadrille and Carole fabrics, along with complementary Carole Fabrics and Samuel & Sons trim on the bolster. It was imperative she pay close attention to pattern placement as the fabric featured a very large repeat. In order to have the motif pattern on the Euro shams visible behind the bolster, Conte shifted the pattern to the top of the pillows rather than the center, which was continued in the duvet cover so the motif would be showcased when it’s folded into thirds.

BEDDING & PILLOWS SECOND PLACE

Susan Cumming Fortucci

The Pincushion Denton, MD

This sleigh bed was the centerpiece of a clients’ master bedroom, but it wasn’t fitting that description any longer. Susan Cumming Fortucci rose to the challenge of recentering the room’s focus by dressing the mattress with a duvet featuring an elegant Cowtan & Tout embroidered fabric with plain sides, along with a micro-cord in the seams as a finishing flourish. Perched atop the duvet are three Euro shames in the same Cowtan & Tout fabric, two king-size shams of Clarke & Clarke fabric and a Zoffany-fabric bolster pillow in the same color palette.

Ingenious Installation First Place

Brave Maggie Designs

Nashville, TN

Featuring an intricate existing Galbraith & Paul wallpaper, Jennifer Holaday was asked to make a functional roman shade in the same print in a teenager’s bedroom. This project required meticulous construction to align seamlessly with the wall, including repeated measurements of each motif and its distance from the molding. As well as matching the pattern, the window treatment needed to function properly and reliably, so a Forest Drapery Hardware RBS lift system was chosen for regular use.

Ingenious Installation Second Place

Coastal Concepts

Westbrook, CT

This project presented Olivia Ursini with the unique opportunity to begin working with a client as soon as the framing was constructed on a new-build custom home. Even more interesting was that this was the first time the client lived a home as they were upgrading from Manhattan apartments. The Connecticut location called for a coastal chic aesthetic—and function—and Norman Window Fashions louvered shutters and Color Lux by Comfortex screen shades on the doors fit the bill. The screen shades maintain a minimalism as to not distract from the shutters.

CURTAINS & DRAPERIES FIRST PLACE

Gillian Wendel

The Wendel Works

Houston, TX

Texas heat, including the sun, is not something to mess around with, requiring Gillian Wendel’s client to seek her help for the three large windows in their master bedroom. The task was to create something beautiful and luxurious, yet functional for day and night blackout purposes. Mitchell Fabrics roman shades were sewn using the double layer method to ensure no light pinholes and RM Coco stationery two-finger-pleat panels with Angel’s Distributing blackout lining were hung from a custom curved rod by Helser Brothers. Day or night, this client will sleep tight without any extra light.

CURTAINS & DRAPERIES SECOND PLACE

Lisa Jones

Lisa Jones Interiors, Inc. Resaca, GA

A guest deserves as much privacy as possible when staying in someone’s home and Lisa Jones was tasked with achieving just that in a client’s home. Blackout-lined Carole Fabrics ripplefold draperies needed to be fabricated with the geometric pattern lined up at each column, which was tedious but well worth the extra effort. Thibaut sheers underneath the draperies reduced the unavoidable glare of the sun and became even easier to adjust with the addition of Somfy motorized rods.