Today, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum announces the winners of its National Design Awards, its own Oscars. William Sofield (above right), the Princeton-educated designer who created sleek container for Tom Ford’s Gucci juggernaut, will take the prize for interior design. Mr. Sofield’s work ranges from the thunderously sensual—like Mr. Ford’s post-Gucci emporia, which telegraph an “Eyes Wide Shut” men’s-club naughtiness—to a quieter, more exposition of luxury, as in the between-the-wars finishes on a Fifth Avenue penthouse once owned by Jackie Onassis, the dining room of which Mr. Sofield veneered with eggshell marquetry.