2015 Pinnacles Will Honor Best Kitchen, Bath

OBERLIN, Ohio – The next edition of the Pinnacle Awards will have two new categories to honor outstanding natural-stone work in residential kitchens and baths.

The annual Marble Institute of America (MIA) competition expands for 2015 to reflect achievement in projects driven by customer demand.

“With the boom in the use of natural stone for residential kitchens and baths domestically and internationally, we felt that adding the two specialty categories would be a natural extension for the competition,” said Jim Hieb, MIA executive vice president/CEO. “With expansion into the most-popular consumer stone categories, MIA hopes to significantly increase the number of kitchen and bath entries this year.”

The 2015 Pinnacle Awards competition will include two new categories: “Kitchen of the Year” and “Bath of the Year”.
 
The new kitchen and bath categories will be in addition to the traditional categories for residential interior/exterior sponsored by GranQuartz, commercial interior and commercial exterior sponsored by Mapei, and renovation/restoration sponsored by Coldspring.

The winners of the kitchen and bath honors will be eligible to win the Grande Pinnacle Award, sponsored by Marmomacc, which carries with it a trip to the world’s premier stone show held annually in Verona, Italy.

The deadline for all categories in the Pinnacle Awards program is July 31, 2015. Details for entering can be found at http://www.marble-institute.com/awards/pinnacle-awards. Questions can be directed to Helen Distelhorst at hdistelhorst@marble-institute.com.  

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