It’s ironic that instead of being a permanent physical location, the only Hall of Fame for the interior design profession is a black tie event that happens only once a year. (We don’t even have to discuss that event is a marketing and a revenue center for one of the industry’s magazines.) The curiosity is that the interior design community, being in the business of creating beautiful spaces and compelling visitor experiences throughout the world, has not yet created a place to view and study the inspiring work designed by industry icons that have been inducted into this hall of fame.
For all its pomp and circumstance, luxurious gift bags, evening gowns and tuxedos, framed by the backdrop of the glamorous Waldorf Astoria in New York, the elegant affair is a networking and promotional event promoted and hosted by Interior Design magazine and is not linked to any professional organization. One could even say that the Hall of Fame, as an institution, is as accountable to the professional design community as the US Green Building Council is to the federal government: not at all. At least with both institutions, their heart is in the right place.
Don’t get me wrong; the design profession needs an establishment that recognizes design excellence and validates the hard work and brilliant ideas of designers past and present. Many of us would not be where we are now without the efforts of designers before us; and having a dream and being inspired by people we admire are part and parcel of any profession, creative or otherwise. Maybe it’s just that the glamour inherent in the event is so incongruous with the workaday conditions of many aspects of the interior design process. Unlike the Hollywood movie scene and the Oscars, interior design is fundamentally about problem solving, not escapism.
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