James Beard Foundation Announces Restaurant Design and Graphics Awards Nominees

Here at UnBeige, we’ve been known to select dining establishments based on their chairs and typefaces, so when the James Beard Foundation announces its annual slate of award nominees, we head straight for the design and graphics categories. A posh swimming pool in Las Vegas (the celebrity chef version of Branson, Missouri) was the setting for yesterday’s announcement of the 2012 contenders, selected by committees of industry professionals in each of the categories. Duking it out for the James Beard Award for outstanding restaurant design (for North American establishments designed or renovated since January 1, 2009) are a trio of Gotham heavyweights: Thomas Schlesser of Design Bureaux for Boulud-on-the-Bowery DBGB