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Industrial Designer and Pratt Professor Lucia DeRespinis has been named the recipient of the 2007 Rowena Reed Kostellow Award, an achievement that recognizes people who have advanced and skillfully applied the principals of design that Rowena Reed Kostellow developed.

"The committee selected Lucia because of the beauty of her personal work and teaching. She consistently applies the principals of abstract design she learned from Miss Reed," says Tucker Viemeister, Rowena Fund Chair.

Lucia has been an Industrial Designer for over fifty years and is an Adjunct Professor at Pratt where she studied with Rowena. She is renowned for picking the pink and orange color scheme for Dunkin' Donut's - based on her 5 year old daughter's favorite colors! She was in the Bard Graduate Center's exhibition and major publication: Women In Design/1900 - 2000. She worked for Sandgen and Murtha, Delco Tableware International, Minners & Co. and with George Nelson Assoc. where she worked on the amazing 1959 American Exhibit in Moscow designing the exhibition with a team of 8 from the Nelson office plus Charles and Ray Eames, Buckminster Fuller, and Bill Katavolos. And don't forget all the clocks she designed while at the Nelson Office that are still available at the MoMA store!

2007 Rowena Reed Kostellow Award Ceremony honoring Lucia DeRespinis
January 25, 2008
Knoll Showroom
76 9th Avenue
New York, NY

Individual: $50
Patron: $500 or more
Student: $10
(tax deductible donation)

(Proceeds and silent auction will benefit The RRK Fund)