Maison&Objet 2024
Image: Mix Brussels hotel, interior design by Lionel Jadot, Brussels, Belgium, 2023. Jam Hotel Lisbon, interior design by Lionel Jadot, Lisbon, Portugal. © photos: Mireille Roobaert
DESIGN
Lionel Jadot
Designer of the Year - Hospitality
Maison&Objet has named Lionel Jadot Designer of the Year - Hospitality 2024. As a Belgian national, designer, interior designer and artist, Lionel Jadot is the symbol of a fast-changing era. Raised in a cabinet-making workshop in a popular neighbourhood in Brussels, mastery of recycling is an essential part of the lifeblood of the designer, who was introduced to art and creation as much by his teachers as by the craftsmen and architects with whom he grew up. The randomness of his raw materials, sourced according to availability, increases his creativity tenfold. These materials dictate the beginning of the story, which he then endeavours to project into fantastic universes on the fringes of art.
Image: Christian+Jade, Weight Of Wood - Rocking Chair ©DR
DESIGN
Rising Talents Awards
This year, Maison&Objet has set its compass towards the Arctic Circle to choose the winners of the 2024 Rising Talents Awards. In keeping with tradition, the winners are all under the age of 35 and launched their studios less than five years ago. The geographical area covers the Scandinavian countries of Sweden, Denmark and Norway, plus Finland and Iceland. This year's winners are: Christian+Jade, Ali Shah Gallefoss, Lab La Bla, Frederik Gustav, Antrei Hartikeinen and Studio Flétta. Malin Ida Ericksson, a 31-year-old ceramist based in Stockholm, Sweden, has been awarded the Rising Talent Award Craft.
2024 Couture Council Award for
Artistry of Fashion
Image: Jacquemus, Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear Fashion Show.
FASHION
Simon Porte Jacquemus
Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion
The Couture Council of The Museum at FIT (MFIT) honored Simon Porte Jacquemus, founder and designer at the fashion house JACQUEMUS, with its 2024 Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion. Simon Porte Jacquemus established his eponymous brand in 2009 with no formal training, dedicating the brand to the memory of his late mother. A passion for art and the decorative arts informs his creativity, inspiring the JACQUEMUS men's and women's ready-to-wear and accessories collections that reference French culture and universal gestures of beauty. Indulging in romantic notions of youth, love and other facets of human nature, Simon Porte Jacquemus is known for his provocative approach to fashion shows and theatrical runway productions that take place in unexpected locations.
About the Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion
FRAME Awards
Image: Aesop Diagonal store by Mesura, Barcelona, Spain, 2024. Photo: Maxime Delvaux
DESIGN
Aesop Diagonal by Mesura
Winner of the Month for August
The Aesop Diagonal store in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Mesura, has been named the winner of the August FRAME Awards. The architect developed the project in close collaboration with master stonemasons, the Barbany family, approaching it with the idea of anastylosis, a term that describes the architectural conservation of ancient monuments by reassembling their original pieces as precisely as possible. In this space, the purpose was to craft a new structure from the discarded stone recovered from the family's quarry.
Alvar Aalto Medal 2024
Image: House HdF, Zuidzande, Netherlands. Photo © David Grandorge.
ARCHITECTURE
Marie-José Van Hee
Alvar Aalto Medal
The 15th Alvar Aalto Medal has been awarded to Belgian architect Marie-José Van Hee. Her output covers a wide range of projects, from private houses to public spaces and cultural buildings. Van Hee’s works beautifully emphasise respect for architecture, nature and handicraft, as well as an understanding of traditional and folk building methods. Van Hee is the first woman to receive the Medal in recognition of her personal accomplishments as an architect.
Frieze Seoul 2024
Image: Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Broken Sun, 2024. Stainless steel with bomb metal, stainless steel, powder coating, 270 x 270 cm.
ART
Galerie Quynh
Frieze Seoul Stand Prize
The Ho Chi Minh City-based gallery Galerie Quynh is the winner of the 2024 Frieze Seoul Stand Prize in recognition of their solo booth featuring an installation by Vietnamese-American artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen. Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s solo show at the fair comprises new sculptures related to his film The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon (2022). The artist explores the power of memory and its potential to act as a form of political resistance. His practice is fuelled by research and a commitment to communities that have faced traumas caused by colonialism, war and displacement.
Sikkens Prize 2024
Image: Pipilotti Rist, Het Leven Verspillen Aan Jou [Wasting Life On You], 2021. Site-specific video/audio installation. Installation view, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen het Depot, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2021. Photo: Ossip van Duivenbode
ART
Pipilotti Rist
Sikkens Prize
Pipilotti Rist received the 2024 Sikkens Prize. The artist name of the leading Swiss artist refers to Pippi Longstocking. Just like the heroine from Astrid Lindgren’s stories, Rist sees herself as a woman who explores and imagines the world in a playful and colourful way. Her work is as colourful as her personality. Since her graduation project, the video I’m Not the Girl Who Misses Much, Rist has gained international fame with immersive, surreal, hallucinatory and dreamy video installations.
Art-o-rama 2024
Image: Liam Allan, Brits, 2023. Pencil on paper, 65 x 43 cm. Courtesy the artist and Zyrland Zoiropa
ART
Zyrland Zoiropa
Prix Roger Pailhas
Zyrland Zoiropa’s presentation at Art-o-rama Marseille received the Prix Roger Pailhas for the most daring curatorial project at the show. The gallery presented artworks by two artists, Liam Allan and Burkhard Beschow. Both artists create delicate objects exploring the complexity of ‘place’. Drawings by Liam Allan are immensely detailed depictions of unspecified historical objects, artefacts from anonymous museum collections. Accompanying Allan’s drawings were mixed-media sculptures by Burkhard Beschow. The artist engages in ongoing projects focused on specific places. In his last exhibition, he created sculptures inspired by the German town Bitterfeld, once the most polluted town in Europe. Beschow’s mixed-media sculptures capture the essence of a place, often post-industrial wastelands.
Prix Carmignac du photojournalisme
Image: Jalalabad, Nangarhar, Afghanistan, 12 February 2024. © Kiana Hayeri for Fondation Carmignac
PHOTOGRAPHY
Kiana Hayeri and Mélissa Cornet
Prix Carmignac du photojournalisme
The 14th edition of the Prix Carmignac du photojournalisme dedicated to the condition of women and girls in Afghanistan following the return of the Taliban to power in August 2021 was granted to the reporting project proposed by the duo of Canadian-Iranian photojournalist Kiana Hayeri and French researcher Mélissa Cornet. Over the course of the last six months, Kiana and Mélissa travelled to seven provinces in Afghanistan to investigate the conditions imposed on women and girls by the Taliban, which, according to Amnesty International’s research, could constitute a possible crime against humanity of gender-based persecution.
About the Prix Carmignac du photojournalisme
Balkrishna Doshi: Guru Ratna Award 2024
Image: Jyoti Bhatt, Vilayatea Table, 2006. Acrylic on Plastic Film, 8 x 11 in.
ART
Jyoti Bhatt
Balkrishna Doshi: Guru Ratna Award
Indian artist Jyoti Bhatt is the winner of the Balkrishna Doshi: Guru Ratna Award 2024 for his contributions to painting, printmaking and photography, as well as his contribution to fine art education. The award was launched in honour of Indian architect Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, who passed away last year and left a legacy as an architect and educator.
