Vancouver’s design crowd packed into Cantu Bathrooms & Hardware for a night of celebration: the 18th annual Western Living Designers of the Year Awards. From bold architecture to visionary interiors to extraordinary handmade creations, the evening honoured the designers redefining what life in the West looks like.

This year’s awards also included the WL People’s Choice winners (chosen by you!) and two new inductees into the WL Hall of Fame. Our international panel of judges had the near-impossible task of picking winners from an outstanding field—and the results speak for themselves.

Thank you to every designer who entered and to our judges for their care and expertise. And now, meet the visionaries who turned ideas into something unforgettable.

These are the 2025 Western Living Designers of the Year

Architects Marianne Amodio and Harley Grusko (MA + HG). Photo by Pooya Nabei

2025 Architects of the Year: MA+HG

Architects Marianne Amodio and Harley Grusko, the duo behind MA+HG, refuse to give in to preconceived notions of what a building must be. Read More

 

Architect Laura Killam (Laura Killam Architecture). Photo by Pooya Nabei

2025 Arthur Erickson Memorial Award: Laura Killam Architecture

Laura Killam Architecture brings thoughtful design to remote properties on the West Coast. Read More

 

Designers Darcy Hanna (left) and Emma Sims (&Daughters). Photo by Pooya Nabei

2025 Robert Ledingham Memorial Award: &Daughters

This year’s Emerging Interior Designers of the Year, Vancouver design studio &Daughters, build on an unassuming family legacy. Read More

 

Jewellery designer Andrea Blais. Photo by Jon Adrian

2025 Fashion and Jewellery Designer of the Year: Andrea Blais

Designer Andrea Blais’s fine metal and stone pieces truly say something about each of their wearers—and it’s that emotional attunement to her clients that makes her pieces stand out. Read More

 

Interior Designer Kyla Bidgood. Photo by Lillie Louise Major

2025 Interior Designer of the Year: Kyla Bidgood

Kyla Bidgood—principal of Victoria interior design studio Bidgood—fulfills her design destiny. Read More

 

Designer Annaka Hoelk. Photo by Pooya Nabei

2025 Industrial Designer of the Year: Annaka Hoelk

Through translucent forms and thoughtful function, Annaka Hoelk designs pieces that gently invite beauty—and joy—into the rituals of daily life. Read More

 

Marrimor Objects. Photo by Pooya Nabei

2025 Furniture Designer of the Year: Marrimor Objects

When you find your creative match—like the duo behind Marrimor Objects—the result is furniture in which playful meets practical, and good design becomes something greater. Read More

 

Ceramicist Andrea Copp. Photo by Pooya Nabei

2025 Maker of the Year: Andrea Copp Ceramics

Ceramicist Andrea Copp celebrates resilience and change through her sculptural work. Read More

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