For more than two decades, Hospitality Design magazine has annually recognized designers, architects, brand executives, and owners through its Wave of the Future program. Here is the much-lauded list of past honorees.
Past Honorees
- Justin Colombik
- Amber Eley
- Kristen Freeland Hines
- Andy Goodwin + Tom Parker
- Brittney Hepler
- Chelsea Hershelman
- Christina Luk
- Melinda Nettelbeck
- Diane Hang Nguyen
- Rosie Rainbow
- Vedi Aslanyan
- Heather Ciszczon
- Paolo Ferrari
- Ashli Johnson
- Kat Kim
- Kerrie Murphy
- Pascale Sablan
- Constantina Tsoutsikou
- Aaron Anderson
- Linda Boronkay
- Atit Jariwala
- Diana Martinez
- Elide Rathborne
- Kane Sarhan
- Pooja Shah-Mulani
- Nick Solomon
- Crystal Vinisse Thomas
- Kia Weatherspoon
- Kristen Conry
- James Cull
- Pallavi Dean
- Damon Lawrence
- Susan Nugraha
- Jacu Strauss
- Paris Swann
- Kaitlyn Thornton
- Rebecca Weinstein
- Ashley Wilkins
- Emily Keip
- Kristen Cochran
- Li Xiang
- Rachael Harvey
- Sarah Klymson
- Life House
- Asthetíque
- Rashana Zaklit
- Yu Ting
- Venus Williams
- Ashley Stempler
- Kate Rohrer
- Charlie North
- Dan Mazzarini
- Tenaya Hills
- Nina Gotlieb
- Frank
- Studio Mai
- One Plus Partnership
- Brittney Hart
- Nicemakers
- Curioso
- Martin Ablaza
- Christopher Alvarado
- Buck Studio
- Bells + Whistles
- James Waterworth
- Melissa Haft
- Sabine Vessnow
- Studio Tack
- Ave Bradley
- Teddy Mayer
- Michelle Behr
- Ana Milena Hernández Palacios and Christophe Penasse
- Christina Luk
- Matthew Goodrich
- Kevin O’Shea
- Gray Shealy
- Alicia Cannon
- Dieter Cartwright
- Kelly Ogden
- Meg Sharpe
- Liubasha Rose
- Griz Dwight
- Rob Wagemans
- Anwar Mekhayech
- Adam Winig
- Daniel Scovill
- Julie Frank
- Kenneth Allen Villamil
- Joyce Wang
- Dodd Mitchell
- George Snode
- Gregory Tubeck
- Hiromi Tsuruta
- Jaime Micha
- Rafael Micha
- Kendyl Lawson
- Terri Myers
- Denise Corso
- Lars Krückeberg
- Jacqueline Kish
- Terence Ngan
- Suhail
- Tara Oxley
- Glenn Lepore
- Matt Abramcyk
- Tonny Sadha
- Andy Masi
- Alex Calderwood
- Sean Tanner
- Martin Vahtra
- Beatrice Girelli
- Moisés Micha
- Carlos Couturier
- Lisa Roth
- Eddie Abeyta
- Clarence Chiang
- Hannah Lee
- Dorothée Boissie
- Alan Barr
- Warren Foster-Brown
- Heather Maloney
- Colin Seah
- Brendan McNamara
- Josh Held
- Stacy Elliston
- Kellie Sirna
- Glen Coben
- India Mahdavi
- Jason Pomeranc
- Monica Ponce de Leon
- Lindy Roy
- Aliya Khan
- Stephen Francis Jones
- Stephanie Goto
- Therese Virserius
- André Fu
- Rafael Alvarez
- Brannen L. Brock
- Jason E. Goldberg
- Tim Mutton
- Jo Sampson
- Giana DiLeonardo
- Lia DiLeonardo
- Stephane Dupoux
- Cass Calder Smith
- Andrew Alford
- Jennifer Kleen
- Gulla Jonsdottir
- Yasumichi Morita
- Nader Tehrani
- Kevin Kelley
- Caren Crangle
- Paul Lewis
- Marc Tsurumaki
- David J. Lewis
- Andrew Cohen
- Jeremy Levitt
- Foreman A. Rogers
- Oliver John Palmer Michell
- Dan Menchions
- Keith Rushbrook
- Robbyn Gabby
- Sam Nazarian
- Chris Sheffield
- Michael Dalton
- Hansy L. Better Barraza
- Fabio Novembre
- Lionel Ohayon
- Susan Marinello
- Thomas Shöner
- Jeff Kovel
- Adam H. Goldstein
- Amy Hulbert
- David Ashen
- Leonard Lee
- Natalie Norcross
- Jun Aizaki
- Frank X. Medrano
- Steven Brabson
- Thomas Schoos