DANN FOLEY'S OUTDOOR SPACE WINS
SFC DESIGN AWARD; LOLOI RUGS, SAFAVIEH FURNITURE FEATURED
Dann Foley, winner of the SFC Design Award for Outdoor Spaces, incorporates products from SFC members Loloi (rugs) and Safavieh (benches) in a South Carolina client's front porch design. |
HIGH POINT, N.C. -- Winners of the Sustainable Furnishings Council's first interior design awards, announced at the organization's 10th anniversary party during the October 2016 High Point Market, included designer Dann Foley of Dann Inc.in Palm Springs, Calif. Foley took the top prize in the outdoor spaces sustainable design category.
The Get Your Green On competition, which was announced in early 2016 and has been promoted on SFC's social media channels, was created to honor interior designers who specify sustainable and healthful home furnishings for their clients' residences. Foley's outdoor room feature his Palm Springs outdoor rugs from a licensing partnership with Loloi, and outdoor furniture from Safavieh, both SFC members.
The winning outdoor room's Palm Springs rug by Dann Foley for Loloi.
"I am passionate about outdoor decorating, and what was exciting to me about a licensing program with Loloi was they were the first to develop a specially treated polypropylene that could create outdoor rugs that would complement my outdoor furniture collection with a sharpness of color and contrast between the colors I hadn't seen before. They were also able to weave my rugs in a technology they developed, and no one else had at the time, to make the rugs more luxurious and the color more lasting," Foley told RugNews.com at the SFC event.
Safavieh's Karoo benches selected by Dann Foley for the winning outdoor space.
The award-winning front porch of Foley's Charleston, S.C. client's home also features Safavieh's outdoor Karoo benches designed with classic proportions and detailing. The benches are crafted of sustainable acacia wood finished in ash grey.
The Safavieh outdoor bench crafted from sustainable acacia wood.
Other award winners were Paola McDonald of Olamar Interiors in Haymarket, Virginia, who won the top prize in the competition, the 2016 Sustainable Design Excellence Award (read full story). Robin Wilson of Robin Wilson Home in New York,won the award for the best Shared Spaces project with a budget of more than $30,000; and Sheree Vincent of Fusion Designed in Wyoming, Minnesota, won the Shared Spaces award for projects under $30,000.