Today sees the long-awaited announcement of the judges for the Restaurant and Bar Design Awards 2014.
Now into its sixth year, the Restaurant and Bar Design Awards has grown exponentially across the industry, being the only organisation which specifically celebrates and recognises the work of restaurant and bar design.
This year, they have secured the services of 26 influential design directors, magazine editors, chefs, hoteliers and restaurateurs to judge the entries for the Awards – and they will have their work cut out if there is anything like the quality and volume of entries as in 2013 (almost 700 projects were entered this year). There will also be two new categories to add to the existing ones: Street Food (UK) and Decorative Lighting (UK and International).
The full list of judges is below:
Chris Baldock, Choreographer and Artistic Director
Michael Corsar, Designer, MCVI
Gillian de Bono, Editor in Chief, How to Spend It
Sandra del Rio, Editor in Chief, Condé Nast Traveler Spain
Simon Farr, Deputy Chairman, Bibendum
Kaffe Fassett, Artist
Thomas Heatherwick, Founder, Heatherwick Studio
Mark Hix, Chef and Restaurateur, HIX Restaurants
Gerry Judah, Artist
Andy McLoughlin, VP Global Innovation and Design, InterContinental Hotels Group
Yotam Ottolenghi, Cookery Writer and Chef/Patron of Ottolenghi and NOPI
David Partridge, Joint Chief Executive, Argent
Lik Peng Loh, Director, Unlisted Collection
Livia Peraldo Matton, Editor in Chief, Elle Decor Italy
Julia Peshkova, Editor, Architectural Digest Russia
Julia Peyton-Jones, Director, Serpentine Galleries
Niko Saurma, Vice President Design, Swarovski
Claus Sendlinger, CEO and Founder, Design Hotels
Tariq Shaukat, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Caesars Entertainment
Sharron Stammers, Director, Light Collective
Andy Sturgeon, Landscape and Garden Designer
Divia Thani Daswani, Editor in Chief, Condé Nast Traveller India
Michael Tiedy, SVP Global Brand Design and Innovation, Starwood Hotels and Resorts
Blues To, Editor in Chief, GQ Taiwan
Kim Walker, Senior Vice President of Brand Marketing, Morgans Hotel Group
Peter Wetherell, Founder and Chairman, Wetherell