Grand Prix du Design Inclusif 2020
Image: Hearring, a collection of hearing aids jewelry designed by FandD. © Studio KH
DESIGN
FandD
Grand Prix du Design Inclusif
At the initiative of Paris Good Fashion and as part of Paris Fashion Week, Eyes on Talents and APF France handicap awarded the Grand Prix du Design Inclusif Fashion and Accessories category. It is the first international prize dedicated to inclusivity in design. Eyes on Talents members, Flora Fixy and Julia Dessirier, of creative studio FandD, won with their hearing aids jewelry collection Hearring. Hearring aims to refine the vision of disability and liberate it from physical or psychological complexes.
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Design Parade Toulon 2021
Image: Room created by Edgar Jayet & Victor Fleury for Design Parade Toulon 2021.
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
Edgar Jayet & Victor Fleury
Grand Prix Design Parade Toulon Van Cleef & Arpels
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Mention Spéciale Eyes on Talents x Frame
Edgar Jayet & Victor Fleury, students in Interior Architecture and Design at École Camondo, won the Grand Prix Design Parade Toulon Van Cleef & Arpels and the Mention Spéciale Eyes on Talents x Frame. It was the 5th edition of the Design Parade Toulon, an international festival dedicated to interior architecture organised by Villa Noailles. For the festival they presented a siesta room inspired by Les Noces (1938) and Le premier Homme (1994) written by Albert Camus. The room was created to be a refuge to the heat, inspired by the Mediterranean interior architecture. They studied traditional methods to learn how to protect oneself from the heat and find a new rhythm in the shadow.
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Design Parade Hyères 2021
Image: "Vire-volt" by Cécile Canel & Jacques Averna.
DESIGN
Cécile Canel & Jacques Averna
Grand Prix du Jury Design Parade Hyères
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Prix Sammode
Cécile Canel & Jacques Averna won the Grand Prix du Jury Design Parade Hyères and the Prix Sammode at the 15th edition of the Design Parade Hères, an international festival dedicate to design organised by Villa Noailles. Their project "Vire-volt" is a series of self-sufficient signs that work thanks to the discrete energy sources that already surround us, and that have always been there: natural light, wind, the mechanical movements of everyday life and the electricity that the city already mobilises, and whose use can be optimised. Its aim is to find attractive alternatives to the neon tube which comes with issues of energy consumption and endangerment of biodiversity in the cities where the lights never turn off.
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DNA Paris Design Awards 2021
Image: Dois Tropicos by Mnma Studio. © Andre Klotz
INTERIOR DESIGN
Mnma Studio
Interior Design of the Year
Brazilian Mnma Studio won the Interior Design of the Year 2021 for their project Dois Tropicos. Mariana Schmidt was the lead designer of the project. The purpose is to create a contemporary element that when opened would bring back some lost time of ancient forms of construction, a slow passing of time, contact with earth. A commercial space that creates a homelike hosting experience, using nostalgia and natural matter, crafted by artisan hands that desire to achieve not perfection but real environments. Every material has its own characteristics and limits for its definition. To work on the threshold of its possibilities - but not defying it - is indeed a fertile ground for advanced thinking and technique development.
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IDEAT Design Awards 2021
Image: Pli Dining Table by Victoria Wilmotte for ClassiCon, 2017.
DESIGN
Victoria Wilmotte
Best Table
Victoria Wilmotte was born in 1985 in Paris, where she studied interior design at École Camondo and product design at the Royal College of Art in London. Her design process can be compared to that of a sculptor: she balances volumes and empty spaces, removes the material until she finds a perfect angle or ideal curve, and polishes the surfaces to the point when they precisely achieve the structure, haptics and light refraction she seeks. The Pli table was designed by Victoria Wilmotte for the German publisher ClassiCon.
