Iris Apfel will be presented with the Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Créateurs Design Awards Ceremony Slated for Paris Return in 2022
Fashion icon Iris Apfel is set to be presented with the Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award—plus a new category for art curation will be added
Yuri Xavier, co-founder of the CDA, speaks at the 2020 ceremony. Photo: CDA
The third annual Créateurs Design Awards will once again be held in Paris this coming January—the same week as Maison&Objet and Deco Off—marking an in-person return for the ceremony, which honors accomplishments in architecture, design, and journalism. Fashion legend Iris Apfel will be presented with the Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award, the night’s biggest prize, which earlier this year went to esteemed architect Robert A.M. Stern. (Galerie is a proud media partner for the 2022 event.)
Comprised of over 200 global creative leaders, the Créateurs Design Association (CDA) also announced the debut of a new category for excellence in art curation. “We wanted to highlight curators,” Yuri Xavier, CDA co-founder, tells Galerie. “Behind closed doors, it takes a lot of skill to tell a story we haven’t heard before.”
The 2020 ceremony at the Ritz Paris. Photo: CDA
Delphine and Reed Krakoff at the 2020 ceremony. Photo: CDA
Submissions for the dozen awards are open from August 16 through November 19 to international product designers, photographers, journalists, curators, galleries, museums, and architecture firms. (Click to see a full list of categories and submission information.) Members of the CDA will then select three nominees per category, who will be invited to the in-person ceremony and hosted at the Ritz Paris. “The winners don’t know until day of,” added Xavier, who founded the CDA with his wife, Meredith. “It’s a peer-to-peer award, so it’s an opportunity be celebrated by peers.”
The group also unveiled a slate of new members, among them Oki Sato, Maria Fernanda Paes de Barros, Baba Oladeji, Dieter Vander Velpen, Andrea Trimarchi, and Simone Farresin from Formafantasma. “I’m just excited to see everybody again,” says Xavier. “It’s an intimate event, but our goal is very ambitious. It’s going to be in-person and virtual, so we will have a gala in Paris and anyone in the world can watch live.”
Cover: Iris Apfel will be presented with the Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award.
Photo: Courtesy of Ruvén Afanador for Zenny
