This issue of the magazine is loaded with features all our readers can enjoy.
Once again, interior designer Marilyn Rose shows she is on target with a beautiful project.
Next, Certified Kitchen Designers (CKDs) have evolved into a highly skilled and professional group. The first ever awards program of the CKDs is published in this issue and we can only begin to guess how this will grow and bring to our readers a new means of getting satisfaction by being informed.
Thirdly, the North Fork Designer Showhouse will open in mid-September and we are very pleased to give our readers a preview of some of the designers who are showing their work. The North Fork in September and October is certainly an appealing region of Long Island and we heartily suggest our readers make the trip to Jamesport and visit the Captain Jedediah Hawkins house.
There is still more. This issue contains the glorious work of the architectural firm of Zwirko & Ortmann and Telemark Construction. Another builder, Kessler & Kessler, has built his own Tara. Magnificent barely describes these houses.
How’s this for putting the pieces together? Over the last several months, House magazine has published a LIBI award, an Archi award and a LINLA award all about the same house. Located on the North Shore, the house was a makeover and it was entered in the LIBIs by builder Chris Schlesinger, in the Archis by architect Steve Keller and in the LINLAs by Paul’s Nursery. In each case, the entries showed different photos, a different theme and none of us realized the house was the same.
The architect had his vision, the builder had another and, of course, the landscape designer had a different assignment. The three perspectives gave no indication that it was the same house. The three winners never got together to compare notes or show off the awards but the owners of the house were certainly aware after House magazine published the awards in three consecutive issues starting with the LIBIs in November/ December, followed by the Archis in the January/February issue and then the March/April issue dealing with landscape design.
For this issue, our editors have put together “The house that swept the awards” based on all the perspectives.
Nothing in my memory has come close to this story since it obviously brings an enormous amount of credibility to all of the awards programs. Over the next six months the entries for the LIBIs, the Archis and the LINLAs will be reviewed, judged and then receive the rewards. All of us here are pleased to see the the excitement such competition brings to the table.