Museum Collections

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum,
New York City

The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit

Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of
Architecture and Design

Gallery of Modern Art & Design, Glasgow

Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Montreal

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis

Exhibitions

Decorex London 2011

Good Design 2008, Chicago Athenaeum:
Museum of Architecture and Design,
Nimbus for Weitzner Limited, 2008

The Larsen Design Studio Part II:
The Lori Weitzner Years, 1992-1995,
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2007

Transient State, An Exhibition of Yardage,
Woven Fiber Art Home, 2004

Good Design 2004 , Chicago Athenaeum:
Museum of Architecture & Design, 2004

Falling Leaves: International Impressions,
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2002-2003

Jack Lenor Larsen: The Company and the Cloth,
Mingei International Museum, 2003

Jack Lenor Larsen: The Company and the Cloth,
American Textile History Museum, 2002

Jack Lenor Larsen: The Company and the Cloth,
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2001

The 2000 Objects for the New Millennium,
Gallery 91, 2000

Good Design 1998, Chicago Athenaeum:
Museum of Architecture & Design, 1998

Memory of the Hand: Making Sense of Art
Through Touch, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1998

Good Design 1997, Chicago Athenaeum:
Museum of Architecture & Design, 1997

Good Design 1996, Chicago Athenaeum:
Museum of Architecture & Design, 1996

Objects of Desire, Glasgow International
Design Festival, 1996

Rhythm and Line, multi-media exhibition
at Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, l994

Windows of Barney’s New York, l994

Linen, Fashion Institute of Technology,
New York, l993

Awards and Juries

Interior Design Magazine
Best of the Year Finalist, 2011
Stratum from Weitzner Limited

Good Design 2011
Newsworthy from Weitzner Limited

Designpreis Deutschland, Federal Republic
of Germany, nomination for Nimbus, 2010

Good Design Award, Chicago Athenaeum:
Museum of Architecture and Design,
Nimbus for Weitzner Limited, 2008

Silver Medal, Best of NeoCon,
The Enduit Collection for Weitzner Limited, 2008

Best of Year Merit Award, Interior Design magazine,
Oracle for Weitzner Limited, 2007

Hospitality Product Design Award,
IIDA/Hospitality Design Magazine,
The MASTERWORKS Collection - Oracle, 2007

ADEX Silver Award, Jaks and Criss Cross Collection
for Pallas Textiles, 2005

Best of Neocon, Ceramica Collection
for Pallas Textiles, 2004

2004 Innovations Awards, Ceramica Collection
for Pallas Textiles, Grand Prize

Good Design Award, Chicago Athenaeum:
Museum of Architecture and Design,
Jottings Collection for Pallas Textiles, 2004

2003 Innovations Awards, Jottings Collection
for Pallas Textiles, Grand Prize

Citation of Excellence, Workplace Aesthetics 2002 Innovations Awards

Finalist, The Rising Star Award,
Fashion Group International, 2002

The Nightengale Awards, Ode to Blossfeldt Collection
for Pallas Textiles, 2001

Best of Neocon, Ode to Blossfeldt Collection
for Pallas Textiles, 2001

Design 100, Metropolitan Home Magazine,
March 2001

Best Contemporary Rug Design,
America’s Magnificient Carpets Award,
AmericasMart, Kono for Endless Knot, 2000

Sydney Airport 2000 Olympics Textile Competition,
Australian Airport Authority, 1999

Acclaim Award, IIDA S. Calif. chapter,
Gibralta for Joseph Noble, Inc., 1998

Good Design Award, Chicago Athenaeum:
Museum of Architecture and Design,
Archaeology for Pallas, 1997

IDEA Award, IDSA & Business Week Magazine,
environmental strategy, collab. with Frog Design
for Lufthansa Airlines, 1997

Good Design Award, Chicago Athenaeum:
Museum of Architecture and Design,
Jacob’s Ladder for Larsen Inc., 1996

16th Annual Textile Design Award,
Cotton Incorporated, Intuition for Larsen Inc., 1996

Innovation in Design, Chrysler (nomination)
for body of work, 1995

Apex Award,
International Interior Design Association,
Jacob’s Ladder for Larsen Inc, 1995

Visrealization Textile Competition,
Amoco (juror), 1995

ICFF Editors’ Award for Textiles,
International Contemporary Furniture Fair,
Rhythm and Line, for Larsen Inc., l994

Speaking Engagements

Co Van der Horst
Amsterdam, 2011

The Preservation of Passion, Pei Partnership,
New York, NY, November 2010

The Preservation of Passion, Seattle Design Center,
Career Day Keynote, Seattle, WA, November 2011

The Preservation of Passion, Dallas Design Center,
Keynote Fall Market, Dallas, TX, October 2010

Veranda ‑ The Art of Design, Featured Panelist,
San Francisco, CA, October 2010

The Preservation of Passion, Gensler,
San Francisco, CA, October 2010

The Preservation of Passion, Michigan Design Center,
Troy, MI, September 2010

The Preservation of Passion, Hirsch Bedner Associates,
Atlanta, GA, February 2010

The Preservation of Passion, Atlanta Decorative Arts Center,
Atlanta, GA, February 2010

Veranda ‑ The Art of Design, Panel Discussion,
Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL, February 2010

The Preservation of Passion, John Brooks Showroom,
Scottsdale, AZ, November 2009

Beauty–Collaboration–Design, Panel Discussion,
Santa Fe, NM, 2009

The Preservation of Passion, Keynote Speech,
NeoCon World’s Trade Fair, June 2009

The Preservation of Passion, Rocky Mountain Designers’ Market, 2009

The Preservation of Passion, Keynote Speech,
Marketplace Design Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2009

The Preservation of Passion, Keynote Speech,
Capital Design Week, 2009

The Preservation of Passion, Keynote Speech,
Boston Design Center, 2008

Designing with the Sixth Sense, Keynote Speech,
NORDEX Seattle, 2008

Architectural Digest Home Design Show,
Keynote Panel, 2008

Fabric and the Almighty Dollar, Westweek, 2006

Designing with the Sixth Sense, Westweek, 2005

Looking Outside the Box: Building a Design Concept
and Making It Happen, Neocon, 2004

Looking Outside The Box: Building a Design Concept
and Making It Happen, Neocon East, 2003

Women of Design, Intentional Wisdom,
New York Fall Market, 2001

Textile Industry Roundtable, sponsored by
DuPont Teflon & Contract Design Magazine, 1999

Design Workshop, Siemen’s, 1998

Design for the Spirit, Carnegie-Mellon, 1998

Why Design? Industrial Designers Society of America, 1998

Designer’s Saturday, Sydney, Australia, 1997

I See Music, American Association of Family and
Consumer Sciences, Art and Design Division, New Orleans, 1995

ABC Design, Pratt Institute’s Center for
Advanced Design Research, IDCNY, 1994

Designex Australia, Melbourne, l994

SummerMarket, Showplace Square,
San Francisco, l994