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NY Now Names 4 Accent on Design Winners
February 3,
2016 by in Designer Weekly 
NY Now has named the winners of the Accent on Design Awards honoring product design excellence, innovation and creativity.
The winners - Ameico for Studio Cheha, Chilewich, Fort Standard, and NEO - are all exhibitors in Accent on Design, a juried collection of contemporary designers and their products, at the winter 2016 edition of the NY Now market, which wraps up today.
“Accent on Design shines a spotlight on the best in contemporary design and functionality and these awards recognize companies that continue to innovate and bring exciting products to market,” said Randi Mohr, co-director and vice president of NY Now. “From Ameico and Chilewich, to Fort Standard and NEO, these companies are on the cutting edge of design.”
Accent on Design Award winners are determined by a select committee based on criteria such as ingenuity, creativity, innovation, function, originality and design. The winter 2016 Accent on Design Award winners are:
• Best New Product: The BULBING LED Lamps from Ameico for Studio Cheha are laser-engraved clear acrylic glass with hidden LED elements that deceive the eye into thinking that there is a shade, offering a space-saving, truly unique design.
• Overall Excellence: Chilewich creates original textiles - renowned worldwide for their durability, ease of care and inventive design - that have been enhancing interiors around the world since 2000, and each season brings a new collection for table and floor that embodies the company’s distinctive aesthetic and unique vision that is created by founder and creative director Sandy Chilewich.
• Consistent Excellence in Creative Material Application: Born in 2007 in Rome after designer Rosanna Contadini discovered neoprene yarn in a hardware store, NEO delivers high-end objects for the home and personal accessories that are knitted, crocheted, woven, simply plaited, twisted or knotted with this velvety, flexible, smooth material.
• Product Collection Excellence: Founded by Gregory Buntain and Ian Collings, Fort Standard is an independent contemporary American design studio focused on creating unique high quality functional home goods and furniture. Their “warm contemporary” style of collaborative design is compelling in their innovative approach to material, connections and production processes.