1964 Grand Prix, Milan Triennale for ‘40/4’ Chair (one of only two Americans to receive this award, the other one being Buckminster Fuller for his Geodesic Domes)
1965 American Institute of Designers (AID) award for “Best Piece of Business Furniture”
1965 Product Engineering Magazine Award, ‘40/4’ Chair (one of 12 best products introduced in the United States in 1965)
1969 Austrian Gold Medal Award for Furniture
1971 Obtained patent application on Soflex®, a new development of thin resilient seating material
1979 Institute of Business Designers (IBD) Gold Medal for Best Product in Special Seating Category
1979 Institute of Business Designers (IBD) Gold Medal for Best Product of the entire competition
1980 International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) Exhibition, Milan, Italy
1984 ‘Design in America: The Cranbrook Vision’
1992 Metropolis Magazine recognized ‘40/4’ as one of the Classic Designs from Around the World – from the Past 50 Years

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