The Salão Design Award, the major product design award in Latin America, will once again have an important participation in the São Paulo design week, featuring a booth at the High Design – Home&Office Expo, Aug 28-30. In addition to the exhibition of the award winners, the Salão Design booth will have talks on consumption and internationalization. This year’s competition awarded were 12 cash prizes, three honorable mentions, an Alternative Woods Award and a Master Teacher Trophy.
Taking into account requirements such as originality, form and function, ergonomics, finishing, safety and sustainability, the Salão Design Award recognizes the talent of students, professionals and manufacturing companies at an international level. This year, the award winners were from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
The director of the Salão Design Award, Eduardo Nuncio, emphasizes the historical importance of this initiative, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2018 and was established in the heart of the Serra Gaúcha, in Bento Gonçalves, where the largest Brazilian furniture producing area is located. "Our purpose is to integrate designers with manufacturing companies, in addition to valuing student research, reflecting year after year the evolution of production processes and revealing new talents to the market," he points out.
This year’s Salão Design Award, whose winners will be exhibited at High Design Expo, featured a broad range of typologies, including multiuse pieces for several different applications in living spaces: from armchairs to cutlery and even portable veranda furniture. The judging panel consisted of designers Brunno Jahara, Bruno Faucz, Leticia Grisa, Nicole Tomazi and Salvatore Figliuzzi.
About the Salão Design Award
Salão Design Award is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year organized by the Furniture Industry Association of Bento Gonçalves (Sindmóveis Bento Gonçalves). The award was established in 1988 aiming to encourage the furniture industry to add value to their products through design. With 14,213 projects entered to this date, the Salão Design Award is sponsored by Berneck and Interprint.
Schedule of talks
#1 Internationalization of design
ICFF NYC Fair – Projeto Raiz designers’ exhibition experience
Date: Aug 28
Time: 3 pm
Lecturers: Camila Fix, Marta Manente, Paulo Alves and Sérgio Matos.
#2 Trends and consumption
Macro trends and consumption trends and the relationship with the furniture & design market
Date: Aug 28
Time: 4.30 pm
Lecturers: Andrea Colin Corrêa (Berneck) and Carolina Vitola (Interprint)
#3 Brazilian design abroad
Showroom B2B in Orlando
Date: Aug 28
Time: 6 pm
Lecturers: estudiobola, Fahrer and Paulo Alves
Service
High Design Home & Office Expo
Date – August 28 – 30, 2018
Venue – São Paulo Expo I Rodovia dos Imigrantes – Km 1,5
Opening hours – 10 am – 8 pm
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