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Eight winners, your People’s Choice favourites and two new Hall of Famers—see who’s shaping Western Canada’s design future.
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.
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
Laura Killam Architecture brings thoughtful design to remote properties on the West Coast. Read More
This year’s Emerging Interior Designers of the Year, Vancouver design studio &Daughters, build on an unassuming family legacy. Read More
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
Kyla Bidgood—principal of Victoria interior design studio Bidgood—fulfills her design destiny. Read More
Through translucent forms and thoughtful function, Annaka Hoelk designs pieces that gently invite beauty—and joy—into the rituals of daily life. Read More
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 celebrates resilience and change through her sculptural work. Read More
The editorial team at Western Living loves nothing more than a perfectly designed space, place or thing: and we’re here to tell you about it. Email us your pitches at [email protected].
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