Winners of International Newcomer Competition 2017 Tile Award Announced

On the Surface — *Transmittance* by Avishkar Bharati

For fresh inspiration on colors and patterns for tilework, look no further than the winning submissions to the fourth annual International Newcomer Competition 2017 Tile Award, a juried contest, that has as its brief “make the most of possible designs using ceramic tiles.” The top designs were Transmittance by Avishkar Bharati of JDAP Design- Architecture-Planning in Mumbai, India; RE: Tile by Andreas Crynen of Ingenhoven Architects in Düsseldorf, Germany; and Stay Unique by Agnes Tröger-Morguet of Agnes Morguet Innenarchitektur & Design, in Cologne, Germany.

Whittled down to three from nine finalists out of an initial 63 entries from 20 countries, the winners had the opportunity to have their designs built as 1:1 models.

In a bonus event, finalists also met in fall 2017 for a workshop in Iceland where they had an opportunity to pitch their ideas to German tile manufacturer Agrob Buchtal, which sponsors the contest.

Kelly Beamon was the products editor for Architectural Record and managed the monthly products newsletter Material World. Before joining the staff of RECORD, she worked as a senior editor for This Old House and Interior Design, and as the managing editor of Surface. As the executive editor of HD magazine, she moderated talks on design trends for HDExpo, an annual hospitality design conference held in Las Vegas. She has also been quoted on design by the New York Times, ABC News, and USA Today and has written columns on American house styles and kitchen and bath trends. She has a B.A. in English from Chatham University in Pittsburgh and 18 years of architecture and design writing to her credit. She resides in Brooklyn with two children, two guinea pigs, and threadbare period original furnishings by George Nelson, Kazuhide Takahama, Charles and Ray Eames, and Gustav Stickley.