Great success for the first Premio Magistretti edition. More than 5000 subscribers from all over the world, good projects exhibited at the Spazio è, the 4th floor of De Padova showroom in Milan and a lot of people for the prize-giving evening.
The prize:
1st prize: "Borrod" design Line Depping, Denmark. A project playing with order and disorder. An idea to tidy your working desk in an instant.
2nd prize: "Teo Stool" design Luciana Gonzalez Franco & Cristian Mohaded, Argentina. An elegant and intelligent stool and sculpture, made of a single sheet of folded flexible material.
3rd prize “Yuki” design Enrico Fratesi & Stine Gam, Italy. The shape of a kimono translated into a sofa
The project borrows its inspiration from a traditional Japanese dress, offering unespected comfort.
Honorable Mention: “Boox”, design Han Li & Yan Hu, Cina. A simple and flexible project. The basic components of “Boox” are boxes within a box. The simple assembling method of free-stacking, allows omany different special compositions.
Honorable mention: “Prop”, design Peter Marigold, UK. Innovative artistic typology and it cannot get any simplier. the cupboard is not fixed on the wall but held in place by a wooden stick (with special angle joint) and a sack of sand on the floor.
The jury was composed by Norman Foster, Patricia Urquiola, Carlo Forcolini, Paola Antonelli, Paolo Imperatori, Birgit Lohmann, Maddalena De Padova, Luca De Padova, Valeria De Padova.
A catalogue of the exhibition has been printed to illustrate the 139 projetcs displayed in the installation.
The catalogue is sold at De Padova showroom in Milan or on-line by the web site: www.designboom.com