Grand Prix Inclusive Design 2022
Image: Lou Dehrot, WHO CHAIRS? (Don’t worry I’ll bring a ramp) 2022. © Daniela Ferro
DESIGN
Louise Linderoth
Grand Prix Inclusive Design
Louise Linderoth was awarded the Grand Prix Inclusive Design for her project that aims to push the boundaries and increase the constructive and expressive possibilities of design for an active wheelchair body. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, she graduated with a master's degree in Fashion Design from The Swedish School of Textiles in Borås, Sweden. She is the owner of the company and brand Lou Dehrot. Eyes on Talents and Paris Good Fashion launched the second edition of the Grand Prix Inclusive Design with APF France handicap in order to reward creative minds committed to designing a more sustainable world. Axians was the special sponsor for this year.
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2023
Image: India Mahdavi, Carwan Gallery, Athens, 2022. Image © Giorgos Sfakianakis
DESIGN
India Mahdavi
Designer of the Year
India Mahdavi was named Wallpaper* Designer of the Year 2023. In 2022, her most iconic interior, The Gallery at Sketch, got a makeover. The French-Lebanese architect transformed the candy pink paradise she created with David Shrigley in 2014 into a more subdued space, in collaboration with artist Yinka Shonibare and with contributions from African craftspeople, who created unique objects and textiles for the interior. Colour is the starting point of Mahdavi’s designs, which combined with the experience of a space or object and a sense of joie de vivre, forms the basis for all of her work.
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Design Parade Toulon
Image: Marisol Santana and Emily Chakhtakhtinsky, Lou cabanoun. © Villa Noailles
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
Marisol Santana & Emily Chakhtakhtinsky
Prix Mobilier national
The Prix Mobilier national has been awarded to Marisol Santana and Emily Chakhtakhtinsky for their project Lou cabanoun. Nestled at the back of the garden, beyond the wild weeds and prickly pear trees, Lou Cabanoun brings together bees and humans in a refuge space. This room questions the way in which the Mediterranean territory is livable when faced with the current climatic challenge. Formally inspired by the Provençal bee walls, Lou Cabanoun pays tribute to the Provençal black bee by borrowing elements from the beekeeping world.
Design Parade Hyères
Image: Yassine Ben Abdallah, Mémoires de la plantation. © j.vandegruiter
DESIGN
Yassine Ben Abdallah
Grand Prix du Jury Design Parade Hyères
Prix du Public de la ville de Hyères
Yassine Ben Abdallah has been awarded the Grand Prix du Jury Design Parade Hyères and the Prix du Public de la ville de Hyères for his project Mémoires de la plantation. Questionning what remains of the history of sugar cane cultivation when the material objects handled by slaves and field workers have disappeared, Yassine Ben Abdallah used sugar to recreate ephemeral machetes that will also disappear over time. In three artefacts, the artist and designer questions the preservation of heritage and its social class biases in a sober and direct but evocative way.
Prix Liliane Bettencourt
pour l’Intelligence de la Main 2022
Image: Grégoire Scalabre, L’Ultime Métamorphose de Thétis, porcelain, 2021 - 2022.
200Hx160Wx160D cm. © photo: Charles De Borggraef
CRAFT
Grégoire Scalabre
Talents d’exception
Talents d’exception rewards an artisan for the realization of an innovative work resulting from a perfect mastery of the techniques and know-how of an art profession and contributing to its evolution. Grégoire Scalabre, French contemporary ceramicist and sculptor, is rewarded for his work L’Ultime métamorphose de Thétis. Monumental sculpture, 2 meters high, L’Ultime Métamorphose de Thétis, is composed of 60,000 pieces of handmade ceramics, turned one by one by Grégoire Scalabre and individually enamelled using a variety of green shades chosen from the palette of the Manufacture de Sèvres.
Image: Anaïs Jarnoux and Samuel Tomatis, MS.86.Ulva, 2021-22, seaweed, 50x28 cm.
© Matthieu Barani, Studio Samuel Tomatis
CRAFT | DESIGN
Anaïs Jarnoux & Samuel Tomatis
Dialogues
Dialogues encourages the innovative collaboration of a craftsman and a designer and salutes a work illustrating an exceptional know-how and the richness of this collaboration. Dialogues 2022 is attributed to Anaïs Jarnoux, upholsterer and Samuel Tomatis, designer, for their work MS.86.Ulva. The bag was created from a material composed of 100% seaweed, instead of traditional animal skins. This new material, developed, tested and then proven after several years of research in collaboration with scientists, is entirely biodegradable. It could replace leather and plastic, in the industrial as well as the artisanal field.
About the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l’Intelligence de la Main
2023 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize
Image: Eriko Inazaki, Metanoia, 2019, ceramics.
CRAFT
Eriko Inazaki
LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize
The 2023 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize was awarded to Japanese ceramicist Eriko Inazaki. Her winning work, a ceramic piece titled Metanoia, 2019, is a captivating orb covered in fine, plant and flower-like extrusions, each intricately made by pinching the clay by hand. The jury commented on Inazaki’s exceptional take on ornamentation in ceramics. This year's honourable mentions went to Dominique Zinkpè from Benin for his wall sculpture The Watchers; and Moe Watanabe, a Japanese artist whose work Transfer Surface uses salvaged walnut bark to construct its naturalistic box form.
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2023 Ralph Saltzman Prize
Image: Marco Campardo, Jello (bench), UV resistant polyurethane resin.
Riviera space, Fuorisalone, 2022.
DESIGN
Marco Campardo
Ralph Saltzman Prize
Designer Marco Campardo has been selected as the 2023 Ralph Saltzman Prize winner. Nominated by Barber Osgerby, Marco Campardo is a London-based designer and maker designing objects, exhibitions and site-specific installations. He has an interest in manufacturing and material experimentation as a form of critical practice, using it to explore narratives about culture, materiality, identity and authenticity.
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Grands Prix de la Création
de la Ville de Paris 2022
Image: Perron et Frères, Banc brûlé, 2020. Solid oak, burnt and oiled. © Alexandra Mocanu
The furniture is burnt with the "Shou sugi ban" technique to give it resistance to time and bad weather.
DESIGN
Perron et Frères
Grand Prix Design
Perron et Frères is a creative work force united around Gérald Perrin and Mayeul Reignault, around design and cabinetmaking. Mayeul, grandson of a cabinetmaker, passionate about wood and designer, discovered by chance the work of Perron et Frères, created by Gérald and an associate designer. He contacted the company and a collaboration began in 2017. Perron et Frères, whose favorite material is wood, develops pieces for brands or interior designers and now wish to design their own furniture collections that convey their values of simplicity and honesty.
Image: Van Cleef & Arpels, 20-24 Place Vendôme Paris, Salons. Agence Jouin-Manku.
Creation of two panoramics on Japanese paper for the living rooms.
Photo credit: Van Cleef & Arpels, Paris - Vendôme/ Agence Jouin Manku – 2020 © Éric Laignel, 2020
CRAFT
Caroline Besse
Grand Prix Métiers d’artFor 20 years Caroline Besse has been developing a color palette made of natural, solvent-free materials. With a training as a classical painter and decorator, she began by creating numerous frescoes. At the same time, she discovered mineral paint. "The intensity and vibration of these colors touched me and made me want to develop my own techniques and contemporary creative proposals. I trained by studying different traditions: the Japanese but also that of Byzantine icons, while deepening my knowledge of the relationship to the body in the gesture of drawing. Since 2017, all the decorations and paintings that I create are made only with the colors of the crushed minerals."