< img src ="https://www.archpaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/exterior-v5.jpg" alt =""> A brand-new distinction folded into Cooper Hewitt’s annual Smithsonian National Style Awards Gala acknowledges specific designers, living and deceased, along with large corporations “for their lasting contributions to the field of style,” Cooper Hewitt shared.
Adobe, MillerKnoll, Target, and Tiffany & Co are amongst the inaugural class of Gala Honorees. Martha Stewart; designer Thom Browne and Tory Burch; artist and designer Maya Lin; imaginative director Jenna Lyons; and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott were likewise noted as honorees.
Industrialist Peter Cooper, Frederick Law Olmsted, Louis Sullivan, Candace Wheeler, and Frank Lloyd Wright were named Gala Honorees post-mortem for their contributions to the fields of landscape architecture, architecture, and interior design.