GhislaineViñas:
Ghislaine Viñas, LLC is an award winning design firm specializing in product design, residential, commercial and hospitality interiors with 20 years of experience.
About Us
““Let’s play design.””
Ghislaine Viñas is a radical visionary whose renown stems from her studio’s award-winning, international interior design, product design and creative direction. Originally from the Netherlands and raised in South Africa, Ghislaine launched her design studio in 1999 in New York City, which still functions as the nucleus for the Ghislaine Viñas brand, and a laboratory for all of her creative endeavors.
Regardless of setting or scale, mode or medium, the studio’s DNA is wholeheartedly present in all of its projects worldwide, guided by Ghislaine’s instinctive intrigue for dramatic compositions and playful color contrasts. Inspired by materials and mediums yet explored, Ghislaine Viñas has produced her exuberant designs within the realms of residential, hospitality, and commercial interiors, as well as product design. She has led multiple partnerships with top home furnishings companies on extensive collections of custom pieces, bringing to life continued explorations of the studio’s appetite for out-of-bounds color play, formal idiosyncrasy, and boisterous scale.
The studio’s creative outputs are celebrated internationally for its childlike penchant for playfulness, joy and spontaneity. Ghislaine is on ELLE Decor’s A-List, was Interior Design Magazine’s 2020 Residential Designer of the Year as well as their “Best of Year” award ten times, and the recipient of the prestigious Benjamin Moore Hue Award, among others. Her work has been featured in publications such as Architectural Digest, Dwell, ELLE Decor, FRAME, Interior Design Magazine, The New York Times, Vogue, and more.
Honors,
Awards
& Talks
HONORS & AWARDS
2023
HOSPITALITY DESIGN AWARDS – Winner
Category: Bar, Club + Lounge
KIPS BAY DECORATOR SHOWHOUSE
Participant
2022
INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE
Best of Year Award Winner
Category: Residential Rugs + Carpets
INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE
Best of Year Award Finalist
Category: Medium Country House
LUXE INTERIORS + DESIGN MAGAZINE
Red Award Winner.
Category: Interior Design Greater New York.
Project: L.A. Residence
CREATURES DESIGN AWARDS – Finalist
Category: Best Interior Design, Residential Project
2021
THE ELLE DECOR A-LIST
NYCxDESIGN AWARD – Winner
Category: Contract Wallcovering (The Curated Collection from Wolf Gordon, featuring ‘Blooma’ by Ghislaine Viñas)
INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE
Best of Year Award Winner. Category: City Residence
Best of Year Award Winner. Category: Staircase
2020
INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE
Best of Year Award Winner:
Residential Interior Designer of the Year
INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE
Best of Year Merit Award (SoHo Apartment)
METROPOLIS LIKES AWARD – Winner
NYCxDesign. Category: Contract Wall Covering
HiP AWARD – Winner
Category: Hospitality, Wall Covering
NYCxDESIGN AWARD – Winner
Category: Contract, Wall Covering
2019
INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE
Best of Year Award Winner (Contract Wall Covering)
INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE
Best of Year Merit Award (Branding)
2018
INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE
Best of Year Award Winner (Outdoor Textiles)
Best of Year Award Winner (Shapely Rugs & Carpets)
NYCxDESIGN AWARD – Winner
Category: Contract, Floor Covering
METROPOLIS LIKES AWARD – Winner – ICFF
Category: Floor Coverings
ICFF EDITOR'S AWARD – Winner
Category: Carpet, Flooring
HiP AWARD – Winner – NeoCon
Category: Workplace – Fabric & Textiles – Designer Collaboration
METROPOLIS LIKES AWARD – Winner – NeoCon
Category: Textiles
IIDA AWARD – Winner – NeoCon
IIDA/Contract Magazine –
Showroom & Booth Design Awards
Category: Best Showroom Under 4,000 sq ft
2016
INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE
Best of Year Merit Award (Beach House)
NYCxDESIGN
Inaugural Awards Winner
Category: Fabric, Wallcoverings
NYCxDESIGN
Inaugural Awards Honoree
Category: Workplace (Budget)
2015
INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE
Best of 10 Years Award Winner (Residential Interiors)
ICFF EDITOR'S AWARD
Category: Outdoor Furniture
2014
INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE
Best of Year Award Winner (Café)
Best of Year Award Winner (Residential Interiors)
2012
INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE
Best of Year Award Winner (Large Residence)
2011
INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE
Best of Year Merit Award
2010
INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE
Best of Year Award Winner (Urban Residential)
BENJAMIN MOORE
Hue Award for Residential Interiors
2008
INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE
Best of Year Merit Award
2007
PANTONE
Color Outside the Lines
Residential Winner
ELECTROLUX
Live-In Kitchen Competition - Third Place Winner
INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE
Best of Year Merit Award
2005
AIA
Merit Award for Interior Architecture
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2022
APRèS SCAD. LACOSTE, FRANCE
Presentation: How to Be a Force
Workshop: Color Discovery Workshop
2021
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
Student Design Competition Juror
2020
IIDA
Interior Design Competition Juror
2019
ASPIRE DESIGN TOUR
Layering Luxury in Limited Space — panel discussion
WHAT’S NEW WHAT’S NEXT
New York Design Center
Succeeding in the Interior Design Business — panel discussion
2018
ASID NJ - DESIGN I T SYMPOSIUM
Keynote: Creating Happiness
SIMPLY SCANDINAVIAN PANEL DISCUSSION
Scandinavian design influence in America
SHE SAID/SHE SAID... INSIDE OUT
Keynote with Cindy Allen at D&D Building
BROOKLYN DESIGNS
The Brooklyn Appeal: Handcrafted Design and Custom Manufacturing
92 STREET Y
City of Tomorrow - Real Estate, Architecture & Design Summit
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
How Design Impacts Life
2017
INTERMOUNTAIN A.S.I.D., UTAH
How Design Impacts Life
SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
The Best in Interior Design with Cindy Allen & Ghislaine Viñas
2016
MOOOI NEW YORK
RIJKS Masters of the Golden Age
KEAN UNIVERSITY
Why Design? Exhibition + Lectures
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
A Conversation About Design
2014
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY (VCU)
Interior Design Lecture Series
CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK
Spitzer School of Architecture
NY TIMES / ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST SHOW
Adding Color, Accessories & Texture: Making a Room Sing
KEAN UNIVERSITY
Thinking Creatively Conference
2012
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
Annual Spring Lecture Series
2011
NY TIMES / ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST SHOW
Kitchens & Baths
CAINE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS,
Utah State University
SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN (SCAD)
Department of Interior Design Lecture Series
2010
NEW YORK DESIGN CENTER (NYDC)
What's New, What's Next
2009
PARSONS, THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
Color of Space Series
2008
NEBRASKA STATE UNIVERSITY
Hyde Lecture Series
