Belle Coco Republic Interior Design Awards winners

Greg Natale Design was named designer of the year in the inaugural Belle Coco Republic 2011 Interior Design Awards.

The winners of these awards were chosen from a rich field of entrants. The awards were created to celebrate the excellence, and creativity of the contemporary Australian interior design industry.

These winners are:

BEST RESIDENTIAL INTERIOR AWARD

Mary Residence, VIC: Matt Gibson Architecture + Design (pictured below)

BEST COMMERCIAL INTERIOR AWARD

Dinosaur Designs, New York: Burley Katon Halliday

BEST CORPORATE INTERIOR AWARD

Financial and Energy Exchange Group (FEX), Sydney, NSW: Burley Katon Halliday

BEST HOSPITALITY INTERIOR AWARD

Crown Metropol/Maze, Melbourne, VIC: Jeffery Copolov for Bates Smart (pictured)

BELLE COCO Republic interior designer of the year AWARD

Greg Natale. Principal, Greg Natale Design

Natale said: "I am absolutely delighted. This is an honour and a privilege that goes above and beyond the satisfaction we get from our work - which we love.”

Belle editor-in-chief Neale Whitaker said: "This year's entries were a pleasure to judge, and I particularly liked that one of the winning projects was New York-based, proving Australian design is competitive with the very best in the world."

Coco Republic executive director Jeremy Byrne said the company wanted to be part of the award process to “express our gratitude for the innovation and skill of our local designers”.

The work of the winners will be profiled in the August/September issue of Belle.