The international panel of judges at Interieur Awards 2014 has announced the 20 winners in the Objects category. The first prize goes to the Keystones table, made using 3D printing, by Italo-Japanese design studio Minale Maeda, based in Rotterdam (NL).
The Keystones table by designers Mario Minale & Kuniko Maeda of studio Minale Maeda in Rotterdam (NL) has won the first prize in the Objects category of the Interieur Awards 2014. The designers used 3D printing to make the single component that joins together all the table’s wooden parts.
The project’s complexity lies in the creation of this single element that can be printed on demand and carried easily from one place to another. The other elements making up the table are simple and allow the table to be adapted to suit the client’s needs, within certain sizes and materials.
Application of new technologies and materials to designer products and the influences and transformations involved in the designer’s work are the themes the judges focused on in selecting the 20 winning projects.
The winning projects will be made in the form of prototypes and exhibited October 17 through 24 2014 at Biennale Interieur 2014 - Kortrijk (Belgium).
(Agnese Bifulco)
The 20 winners are, in alphabetical order:
24 Hrs Light, Lisa Muller & Franziska Schmidt (DE)
All Wood Stool, Karoline Fesser (DE)
Atmos, Arturo Erbsman (FR)
Current Table, Marjan van Aubel (UK)
Dune carpets, Sarah Böttger & Hanna Emelie Ernsting (DE)
Fantasia, Lapo Germasi (IT)
Kawara Bench, Tsuyoshi Hayashi (NL)
Keystones, Mario Minale & Kuniko Maeda (NL)
Magnum, Patrycja Domanska & Felix Gieselmann (AT)
Nested - Low metal table to multiply, Alice Viallet (FR)
NomAd table, Jan Goderis (BE)
Perimeter Shelf, Sarha Duquesne & Levi Dethier (BE)
Plug Light, Joyce de Grauw & Paul van den Berg (NL)
Project Cooking Table, Moritz Putzier (DE)
SALUT, Meike Langer (DE)
Svampe - A small table lamp, Alice Viallet (FR)
The Phytophiler, Dossofiorito (IT)
Triangle Ladder, Frits Kuitenbrouwer (BE)
TUMBLE, Koen Devos (BE)
WHY HIDING?, Dirk Ploos van Amstel (NL)
Biennale Interieur 2014 www.interieur.be
Date: October 17 through 24 2014
Location: Kortrijk (Belgium)
Images courtesy of Biennale Interieur
