Interior Design Magazine Editor-in-Chief Cindy Allen Keynote
Tuesday: 10:00 am
Event Description
Cindy Allen is widely lauded as one of the most influential advocates for the interior design profession. With almost two decades as Editor-in-Chief of Interior Design, she champions the industry, promoting both the giants of design and its rising stars. Allen has published more than 10 books on design, with the latest edition covering the industry’s best. An early adopter of alternative platforms to share Interior Design’s content, she has also made nearly 100 short documentaries on industry icons that are featured on DesignTV by Sandow. Allen received an Honorary Doctorate from the New York School of Interior Design in 2010 and from the San Francisco Academy of Art in 2012. She is the recipient of the 2009 Alpha Award from Alpha Workshops, the 2010 Circle of Excellence Award from the IFDA, the 2014 Open House New York Honoree Award, the 2015 Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation’s Scroll Award, the 2019 AIA Stephen A. Kliment Oculus Award and was honored at the 2020 LongHouse Winter Benefit. Allen has served as a juror for the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards and the Gensler Design Excellence Awards, among others.