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Hospitality Design Magazine Presents the Best of Boutique Awards as Excitement Grows for HD Boutique September 17-18

"The Best of Boutique Awards not only offer us a unique opportunity to honor hospitality's most innovative products and designers, but provide us with a chance to witness the best of the best. This valuable glimpse allows us to witness what we may expect for years to come from some of the world's leading designers," says Michelle Finn, vice president, Hospitality Design Group.

In addition to being recognized with an award to display at HD Boutique, recipients will be featured in the November 2008 issue of Hospitality Design magazine and on the magazine's website at hdmag.com. The HD Awards were judged by three noteworthy industry professionals: Eric Lam, principal, LAM McGOWAN Architecture + Design; Myron Lea, lead designer, DiGuiseppe Architecture + Design; and Cece Stelljes, interior architect, Karim Rashid. The 2008 Best of Boutique (BOB) winners include:

                 Blossom Glossy Black of the Xtra Collection
                                GranitiFiandre

               Stacy Garcia Inc. Metropolitan Giclee Table Lamp
            Stacy Garcia Inc. and Pacific Coast Contract Lighting

                                Ajiro Sunburst
                          Maya Romanoff Corporation

                                Question Mark
                               Sandler Seating

                            'Wildfire' Envel Glass
                                 Envel Design

                               Xorel Embroider
                                   Carnegie

                                Foglia Rocker
                              Neoteric Contract

                                Spa Collection
                            Robert Allen Contract

                                  Bottled Up
                               Masland Contract

                               Forest Armchair
                                 JANUS et Cie

The 2008 Best of Boutique (BOB) Awards are presented by Hospitality Design (HD) magazine, part of Nielsen Business Media, which also produces the 2008 Hospitality Design Boutique Exposition & Conference (HD Boutique) inMiami Beach from September 17-18, 2008 (hdboutique.com) and 2009 Hospitality Design Exposition & Conference (HD Expo) inLas Vegas from May 14-16, 2009 (hdexpo.com). Hospitality Design (HD) magazine also presents Hospitality Design Green Day (HD Green Day) and Hospitality Design Summit (HD Summit) in Duck Key, FL from March 4-6, 2009.

Nielsen Business Media, a division of The Nielsen Company, is a leading market-focused provider of integrated information and sales and marketing solutions, helping businesses go to market more effectively and efficiently. Serving seven major market groups, and 30 individual markets, spanning the entertainment, media and marketing, retail, travel and performance, design, and life sciences industries, Nielsen Business Media provides business-to-business products and services in print, online and in person. With 42 publications, more than 60 trade shows and 185 digital products and services, Nielsen Business Media offers insight, analysis and face-to-face contacts to help professionals better understand their markets, serve their customers and grow their businesses.

The Building Design Group, part of Nielsen Business Media, includes leading publications, events and digital offerings in the residential and commercial property design industry including DDI, GlobalShop, Commercial Property News, Contract, Hospitality Design, Hospitality Design Expo and Hospitality Design Boutique, Kitchen & Bath Business, Kitchen and Bath Industry Show, Multi-Housing News and Multi-Housing World. The group also produces publications and events in the decorated apparel and home healthcare industries including Impressions, The Imprinted Sportswear Shows and Medtrade. Additionally, three Marine Military Expositions are produced that are focused on the US Marine Corps. Nielsen Business Media is a division of The Nielsen Company.

SOURCE Hospitality Design Magazine