Five Custom Woodworkers Receive CWB Design Portfolio Awards.FIVE CUSTOM WOODWORKING businesses have been chosen to receive top awards in the 2000 Design Portfolio Awards competition, sponsored by Custom Woodworking Business magazine. Winners were named in six categories: residential furniture, Industrial Design Form Corp., Miami, FL; commercial/institutional furniture, Swanson Woodwork woodwork: see carpentry; furniture; intarsia; marquetry; veneer; wood carving. , Boston, MA; architectural millwork, Accu-Trim Custom Woodworking Inc., Cooleemee, NC; kitchen/bath cabinetry cab·i·net·ry n. Cabinetwork: finely detailed cabinetry. Noun 1. cabinetry - the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality) cabinetwork , Swanson Woodwork; laminate laminate, n a thin slice of porcelain or plastic fabricated in a dental lab, which is cemented to the front of the teeth to cover gaps, whiten stained teeth, or reshape chipped or broken teeth. casework case·work n. Social work devoted to the needs of individual clients or cases. case  work , E.P.W. Fine Woodworking,
Loomis, CA; and specialty products, I.A. Keer -- The Art of Furniture,
Minneapolis, MN. In addition, Industrial Design Form Corp. was named the
overall winner, having received the highest score among all entries.
Industrial Design Form's winning entry was a Great Buffet (Wave), one of seven new pieces introduced in the collection of designer Luis Lozada. The buffet combines wood color and texture with a mix of African lacewood and solid mahogany bases. Swanson Woodwork, in a first for the competition, won two separate categories. The winner in the kitchen/bath cabinetry category was a remodeled kitchen featuring cherry cabinets, mantle and worktable. Swanson's remodel re·mod·el tr.v. re·mod·eled also re·mod·elled, re·mod·el·ing also re·mod·el·ling, re·mod·els also re·mod·els To make over in structure or style; reconstruct. of Mario Russo Salon in Boston won for commercial/institutional furniture. Accu-Trim's winning entry was a two-story Brazilian cherry library, living room entertainment center and basement entertainment center. The first award ever given in the laminate casework category went to E.P.W.'s communications room for the Sacramento Medical Foundation. The centerpiece of the room is a 18-foot-wide soffit covered with metal laminate. Tux and Zoot, a pair of portrait mirrors made of solid maple and purpleheart pur·ple·heart n. 1. A tropical tree (Peltogyne paniculata) native to Guiana and Trinidad, having very hard, durable brown wood that turns a purple color on exposure. 2. , recut veneers of tay, sapele Sapele (səpā`lē), city (1991 est. pop. 123,000), S Nigeria, a port in the Niger delta. The center of the Nigerian timber industry, Sapele has sawmills and a large plywood and veneer factory; rubber is processed there, and plastics, , pommmele and brandied peach burl, were the winning pieces for I.A. Keer -- The Art of Furniture, in the specialty products category. Eight other companies received Honorable Mention Awards. The awards program was instituted in 1993 to recognize some of the unique functional projects being produced by professional custom woodworkers. It is named after CWB's Design Portfolio column, which highlights unusual and outstanding projects. Award recipients are featured in the magazine's December 1999 issue and at www.iswonline.com. |
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