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The Paint Quality Institute is pleased
to announce the winners of its “Prettiest Painted
Rooms in America” competition. The Grand Prize winner
and four Runners-up were selected
by a distinguished panel of judges. The competition winners
are as follows:
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- Grand Prize Winner |
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- Runner Up |
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- Runner Up |
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- Runner Up |
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- Runner Up
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 Penny Drue
Baird, (Grand Prize winner), designed a media
room that originally consisted of plain white walls. Her
painting techniques and variety of color enhanced the total
design of the room and was unanimously chosen by the judges.
Baird used wainscoting and beadboard applied in varying directions
and painted them in shades of turquoise and pale green. This
created a tranquil and inviting atmosphere.
Baird divides her time between New York City and Paris.
Her work has appeared in leading magazines and show houses
and she has been quoted in more than 100 publications in
the United States and abroad. She has a Ph.D in psychology
and is the mother of four boys and two stepsons.
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 Grady Cooley, (Runner-up),
painted a botanical theme on the walls of a spec house to
replicate an 18th century
wallcovering. He has clients in the United States and
Europe, worked in the fashion industry before entering the
world
of interior design and has designed a number of the hottest
restaurants in Southern California. Cooley divides his
time between New York City and Los Angeles.
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 Justine Cushing,
(Runner-up), painted
the walls of her own small Manhattan apartment with a cantaloupe
strié glaze
that changes character with the changing light throughout
the day. Her work has appeared in Vogue, House & Garden and House
Beautiful and she studied at the Foxcroft School
in Middlebury, Va., and Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Mass.
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 Karen Harris,
(Runner-up), created a room for a seven-year-old
boy with an abstract rainbow theme. Harris, an Allied Member,
ASID, is president of eff.ess Studios, LLC, a firm specializing
in residential and interior product design, presently based
in Akron, Ohio. She has a B.S. in architecture from the
University of Virginia.
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 Keita L. Turner, (Runner-up), designed
her award-winning room for the Fall 2005 ESSENCE Showhouse
in Harlem. It featured
soothing blue punctuated by rich chocolates and vibrant fuchsias.
Turner is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design
in Providence and the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Her work has been showcased in print, film, TV and in the
African American Design Archive at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt,
National Design Museum.
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