Excellence and superior achievement in the home and gift industry were recognized July 13 at the eighth annual ICON Honors. Staged at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre, guests enjoyed an evening of cocktails, an elaborate buffet, the awards presentation and a special musical performance by The Indigo Girls.
Atlanta’s Fox Theatre was abuzz in July for the eighth annual ICON Honors. Videos of the winners have now been released. Relive the night!
Now released on Gifts and Decorative Accessories’ YouTube channel are video stories celebrating the 2017 award recipients.
“My father, after the second world war, started importing and exporting anything he could get his hands on…pineapples from Hawaii to Germany, porcelain from Germany to the US, and gradually got into these decorative birds and angels he found in Southern Germany,” said Clifford Adler, about the beginnings of Kurt S. Adler, a 2017 ICON honoree. “He gave a European feel to Christmas for the first time in the US.”
Hear more of Kurt S. Adler’s story, along with that of the other 2017 ICON honorees, in these special videos.
The ICON Honors 2017 honorees and video subjects are:
- Innovation Honors, Product Innovation: Spicher and Company
- Branding Honors, Branding/Identity: Bloomingville, Wolf Gourmet, Her Majesty’s English Tea Room
- 2017 AmericasMart Medal of Excellence Honor: Kurt S. Adler, Inc., Clifford, Howard and Karen Adler
- The Gift and Home Trade Association/Gift for Life Honor of Excellence: Chris Rosse, Rosse and Associates
Retailers, manufacturers, sales agencies and service providers were eligible to pursue recognition in several categories of competition and honorees were selected through extensive adjudication by experts from the worlds of design, manufacturing and product development.
ICON Honors is produced and staged by AmericasMart Atlanta in partnership with the Gift & Home Trade Association and Progressive Business Media, parent company of Home Accents Today and Gifts and Decorative Accessories, and in affiliation with Gift For Life.
