Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/05/2023
5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Location
To Be Determined
The 10th Anniversary Boston Design Week will take place April 25-May 7, 2023, featuring 80+ in-person, virtual and outdoor events citywide, including the annual Design Week Awards, Friday, May 5th. This 12-day design festival offers renowned guest speakers, panel discussions, exhibitions, and more hosted by design-oriented businesses, universities, museums, non-profit organizations, and professional societies. Most events are free of charge with registration, and all events must be open to the public.
The Boston Design Week Awards will take place Friday evening May 5th, at a location to be announced. The Boston Design Week Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to an outstanding individual in the world of design whose work has spanned both the 20th & 21st centuries.
Past recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award include:
2009 – Vladimir Kagan, Designer and Architect
2010 – Dakota Jackson, Furniture Designer
2011 – Massimo and Lella Vignelli, Designers
2012 – Vicente Wolf, Interior Designer
2013 – John P. Axelrod, Collector and Philanthropist
2014 – Susan Park, Preservationist
2015 – Robert Campbell, Architecture Critic
2016 – Virginia Bohlin, Antiques Columnist, Boston Globe
2017 – Jonathan Leo Fairbanks, Decorative Arts Curator
Emeritus, MFA Boston
2018 – Maurice N. Finegold, Finegold Alexander Architects
2019 – Roger Thomas, EVP, Wynn Design and Development
2020 – Awards were postponed.
2021 – Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez, Furniture Maker
2022 – Oren Sherman, Artist, Educator, Visual Storyteller
With sustainability, environmental impact and climate change in mind, the special festival theme this year is: Design For Tomorrow, Today! The festival organizers seek events and programs in all categories and in all fields of design that are groundbreaking, disrupt previous ideas, or challenge conventional thinking, processes or materials, with particular interest in design that responds to the economic, social and environmental imperatives of the city of Boston, the United States and the world.
This year, for the first time, Boston Design Week will also include an online show and sale: “DISCOVER DESIGN FAIR” featuring innovative furniture, decorative arts, glass, ceramics, sculptural objects, lighting and more. Individual makers, collaboratives, galleries and small manufacturers are invited to register to exhibit today!
Boston Design Week seeks to increase public awareness and appreciation of all aspects of design, foster recognition of the vital role design plays in our lives, and bring new audiences to a wide array of design industries and organizations. Our vision is to encourage the public to explore all aspects of design.
Details at https://www.bostondesignweek.com or call 617-363-0405
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