Student Pinnacle Award winner receives ISFD scholarship
HIGH POINT — The International Society of Furniture Designers (ISFD) has named Calvin Ma as the recipient of the 2025 Tom Conley Student Scholarship.
Ma, currently a graduate student at California Polytechnic State University in Pomona, Calif., is also won the ISFD John Conrad Student Pinnacle Awards for his Elaine Chair.
“We had 60 entries this year, in one of our strongest student competitions ever,” stated David Blair, executive director of ISFD, adding, “I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who entered and to congratulate Calvin on his excellent work. I’m sure he will find a good use for the scholarship funds as he completes his education.”
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“It is such an honor to be awarded the John Conrad Student Pinnacle Award and Tom Conley Scholarship,” Ma said. “I’m so grateful to ISFD for supporting and celebrating design students by giving us this extraordinary opportunity.”
The award is named for Tom Conley, a past president and CEO of the High Point Market Authority and a longtime board member of ISFD. For more than a decade, he supported professional home furnishings product designers and students who wanted to make a career in furnishings design.
The ISFD Scholarship was established in 2010 by the organization’s board of directors with the instrumental help of long-time members Richard and Catherine Frinier. Founded to support gifted student designers from schools nationwide, the scholarship pays a financial award in the fall semester.
