The British Institute of Interior Design (BIID) held its Annual General Meeting last week and took the opportunity to announce a new president and this year’s award winners
The BIID’s president for 2024-2025 is Angela Bardino (pictured above). Angela leads Jacobs’ interiors and insights team for Europe. Her design experience has traversed sectors including workplace, hospitality, arts and culture, working for a range of both global and local clients. Angela is active in the workplace interiors community, she believes in pushing the boundaries of design with sustainability with end user experience at the fore. Angela is a BIID registered interior designer and was formerly a member of the BIID Professional Practice & Sustainability Committees, before taking on the role as BIID President, taking over from May Fawzy.
CPD Award
Commitment to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) helps to ensure that BIID members are keeping up to date with the latest developments in a rapidly changing industry. All BIID Members are required to undertake an annual CPD requirement of 20 hours.
The CPD Award honours the BIID member who gained the most structured hours in that year. At the 2024 AGM, the recipient of the award for the second consecutive year, was BIID Registered Interior Designer Chloe Bullock who accrued 151 Structured CPD Hours. Chloe is the founder of Materialise Interiors, an award-winning, B Corp Certified, Brighton-based interior design company, offering sustainable and vegan interior design for commercial and residential clients. Her ongoing commitment to environmental awareness, sustainability using circular economy principles and cruelty-free specifications learnt at The Body Shop, has translated into her own interior design business. Chloe is a member of the BIID Sustainability Committee and co-founder of Interior Design Declares. Chloe is the author of ‘Sustainable Interior Design’ for RIBA Publishing.
Merit Award
The Merit Award honours a BIID member who has particularly excelled in three key criteria: excellence in interior design practice; a contribution to the development of the Institute and a commitment to the wider field of design education. Chosen by the awards committee, the 2024 award was presented to BIID registered interior designer Gilly Craft.
Gilly founded her own successful interior design practice in 2004 – Koubou Interiors, which specialised in residential, commercial and healthcare design for over twenty years. She is now an interior architecture and design consultant and mentor for growing interior design companies and those just starting their interior design journey.
Gilly was President of the British Institute of Interior Design (BIID) from 2018-19 and formerly held the role of CPD Director for the BIID. She worked closely with the BIID council and committees on the strategic development of the Institute. Most recently Gilly has been Chair of the BIID Awards Committee, overseeing the inaugural BIID Interior Design Awards in 2022 and steering the growth of the awards to the successful event it is today.
