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"New York, N.Y (Nov. 13, 2007): In mid-October Architectural Digest held the publishing industry's first-ever Open Auditions for residential design. More than 400 pros and non-pros, from as far away as Mexico, the Philippines, Australia and Venezuela, lined up at New York's D &amp;amp; D building to show their portfolios to a panel of AD judges headed by longtime editor-in-chief Paige Rense.\n\nBeginning today and for the next six weeks, more than 20 outstanding designs \u2014 living rooms, dining areas, bedrooms, kitchens and overall architectural design, are being announced on the magazine's website: www.architecturaldigest.com. Designs will also appear in future issues of the magazine.\n\nConcurrent with judges' picks, AD is inviting the public to cast its vote, on a room-by-room basis, every week for a six-week period. On December 25, the overall web audience favorite from the Architectural Digest New York Open Audition will be announced.\n\nThe online voting schedule is:\n\nNovember 13-19 - Web visitors vote for their favorite living room from among five of the participants.\n\n November 20-26 - The audience favorite for living room will be announced, and web visitors vote for their favorite dining area from among three of the participants.\n\n November 27-December 3 - The audience favorite for dining area will be announced, and web visitors will vote for their favorite kitchen from among five of the participants.\n\n December 4 - 10 - The audience favorite for kitchen will be announced, and web visitors will vote for their favorite bedroom from among three of the participants.\n\n December 11-17 - The audience favorite for bedroom will be announced, and web visitors vote for their favorite architecture from among five of the participants.\n\n December 18-24 - The audience favorite for architecture will be announced, and web visitors vote for their favorite room from among the five audience favorites.\n\n December 25 - The overall website audience favorite for the New York Open Audition participants will be announced.\n\nLiving Rooms:\n\n Judy W. Gordon (Northfield, Illinois.), for a project in Glencoe, Illinois.\n\n Norman McCrary, New York, New York.\n\n Francine Martineau, Montreal, Canada.\n\n Jack Montgomery (Southbury, Connecticut), for a project in Fairfield, Connecticut.\n\n Margaret Rose (Sydney, Australia) for a project in Palm Beach, Australia.\n\nDining Areas:\n\n Antonio R. Mendoza (The Philippines), for a project in New York, New York.\n\n Peter Pawlak, New York, New York.\n\n Sucharitha Reddy, Staten Island, New York.\n\nKitchens:\n\n Ron and Ruthie Bzdewka, Somerset, New Jersey.\n\n Breanna Carlson, New York, New York.\n\n Batya Kalderon-Hadani, Cresskill, New Jersey.\n\n Sheila Camera Kotur (New York, New York), for a project in Salisbury, Connecticut.\n\n Steven Morey, Dallas, Texas.\n\nBedrooms:\n\n Kasia Karska (Englewood, New Jersey), for a project in Lake Creek, Colorado.\n\n Tamara Magel (New York, New York), for a project in Larchmont, New York.\n\n Michael Marienthal, Chicago, Illinois.\n\nArchitecture:\n\n Helen Grubel (White Plains, New York), for a project in East Hampton, New York.\n\n Kenneth Hobgood (Raleigh, North Carolina), Chapel Hill, North Carolina.\n\n Valerie Schweitzer, Westport, Connecticut.\n\n Brent Stocker, Sunapee, New Hampshire.\n\n Alejandro Herrasti (Mexico City), Monterrey, Mexico."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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