Cooper-Hewitt fetes design leaders

By Staff -- Home Textiles Today, 10/27/2003 12:00:00 AM

NEW YORK —

The Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum last week honored the recipients of its National Design Awards.

Target Stores was awarded the Corporate Achievement Award, and Gordon Segal, ceo, Crate & Barrel, received the Design Patron Award.

Other winners included architect I.M. Pei and the husband and wife design team of Lella and Massimo Vignelli, all of whom received the Lifetime Achievement award.

Herman Miller, the furniture manufacturer, was honored with the Product Design award.

Tom Ford, the design director of the Gucci Group, was the winner in the new Fashion Design category.

Billie Tsien and Tod Williams won the Architecture Design award, and Michael Van Valkenburgh, professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, won the Environmental Design award.