Last week, AN named Michael Hilal, Little Wing Lee, and Tom Polucci as jurors for the 2025 Best of Products Awards. Now, more jurors are joining the panel. Welcome Thamarit Suchart, Odile Hainaut, and Anya Moryoussef. Best of Products is an annual awards program that elevates the tools and toolkits of the design world. With over 35 categories, this program highlights both building materials, like cladding, insulation, and enclosures, as well as interior products, like furniture, rugs, appliances, and finishes. Submissions are currently open from now until end of day on July 25. The full panel of jurors, joined by AN’s own Jack Murphy and Kelly Pau, will review each entry, paying attention to innovation, sustainability, and design value. Read about the newest thought leaders and experts joining the panel below and get submissions in before the deadline—and before Early Bird closes at midnight on May 30, 2025. (Courtesy Thamarit Suchart) Thamarit Suchart | Principal and Cofounder | Chen Suchart Studio Thamarit Suchart is a principal and cofounder of Chen Suchart Studio. Chen Suchart Studio is a full-service architecture and design firm based in Arizona. The work spans residential, hospitality, and commercial projects, with a particular emphasis on design-forward new construction. Founders Thamarit “Tommy” Suchart and Patricia Chen have been working together since meeting at the Rhode Island School of Design, from which they both earned a degree in architecture. They have worked for iconic architects and founded Chen Suchart in 2010. Chen Suchart’s work has been recognized for its combination of formal inventiveness and programmatic flexibility, and varied work and educational backgrounds have supported a practice that is both pragmatic and playful, rigorous and ranging, and intuitive and informed. The studio has been delighted to partner with visionary clients such as the Los Milics Winery and Tasting Room; Molteni&C; and numerous extraordinary individuals. The studio’s residential work emphasizes a keen understanding of site and landscape, a bold profile, and a capacity to work with materials in fresh and unexpected ways. (Courtesy Odile Hainaut) Odile Hainaut | Brand Director | ICFF Odile Hainaut has an educational background combining French Literature (Sorbonne Nouvelle Censier University), Performing Art (Cours Perimony), and Musicology (Paris Sorbonne University). Passionate and curious about creativity and the arts at large, Hainaut traces her love of design to 1992, when she began working at Raison Pure, a French international design and branding agency, handling PR and special events. As Director of Communications, Hainaut undertook major marketing, design, and communication projects, building its reputation as a major player in the branding and design world. For two years, she managed the communication for the international launch of the fragrance collection Eau de Murano and led the creation of limited editions with renowned Murano artists. When she moved to New York with her family in 1999, Hainaut pursued the work that she started in Paris, successfully building the communication and PR strategy of the U.S. operations of Raison Pure USA, now named forceMAJEURE. Her immersion in the world of Design deepened in 2007 when she created New York’s Gallery R’Pure, an experimental gallery space dedicated to contemporary collectable design. Hainaut became more and more involved in the New York design scene and decided to extend her curatorial skills to a larger-scale design exhibition in New York. She met Claire Pijoulat in November 2010 and the two decided to combine their vision, expertise, and passion to launch WantedDesign in May 2011. WantedDesign became the premiere annual international exhibition during New York’s design week. In October 2019, WantedDesign Manhattan was acquired by Emerald Expo. Since 2023, Hainaut and Pijoulat took new roles as Brand Directors for ICFF. The Manhattan fair, renamed WANTED, is a central feature of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) at the Javits Center. (Courtesy Anya Moryoussef) Anya Moryoussef | Founder | Anya Moryoussef Architect Anya Moryoussef is the recipient of two Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Medals, most recently the 2021 Emerging Architect Award. She founded her critically acclaimed practice in 2016 and has been a dedicated educator and mentor since 2008, including as a faculty member at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture and University of Toronto John H. Daniels School of Architecture, Landscape and Design. Moryoussef’s work focuses on elevating the potential of renovation and vernacular reinterpretation. Known for its expressiveness, restraint and craft, her portfolio has been recognized by The Architect’s Newspaper’s Best of Practice Awards, and the Wallpaper* Architect’s Directory. Her house on Craven Road was an OAA Design Excellence Award Finalist. Moryoussef has juried the RAIC awards, is a regular guest lecturer, invited critic, and has been a speaker and panelist for Building Equality in Architecture Toronto and the Toronto Society of Architects. In addition to mentoring young architects, Moryoussef actively seeks collaboration with other emerging industry members to empower a new cohort of emerging professionals. (Courtesy Kelly Pau) Kelly Pau | Design Editor | The Architect’s Newspaper Kelly is the Design Editor at The Architect’s Newspaper and AN Interior, where she focuses on covering interior architecture, product design, and AN’s awards program. Previously, she covered design and architecture across product, interior, and other typologies at COOL HUNTING. She’s been published in Vox, The Cut, Salon, and other national publications. She’s also been awarded a Ceramics of Italy Journalism Award Honorable Mention for her coverage on trends in the ceramic tile industry. Submissions for Best of Products are open from now until midnight (ET) on July 25, 2025. Learn more about eligibility and start submissions here.