DESIGNER’S DAYS 2012 – AWARDS
(c) Christophe Brachet
On Monday June 4, at the closing ceremony of the 12th edition of the Paris Design Trail, held at Les Docks-Cité de la Mode et du Design, the Designer’s Days Association awarded its prizes, in the presence of the 2012 Jury, chaired by Pierre Charpin and including Jerôme Aumont (Maison Française), Galit Gaon (Holon Design Museum), Harri Koskinen (designer, representative of Helsinki World Design Capital), Claudia Pignatale (Secondome), Chantal Hamaide (Intramuros), Marie Kalt (AD), and Marion Vignal (L’Express Styles).
Awards :
Designer’s Days Grand Prize for Design Promotion, awarded with AD
Marianne Goebl – Design Miami
Designer’s Days Entreprise Designer prize awarded with Express Styles and Maison Française
A + A Cooren for their lighting project with Vertigo Bird
Designer’s Days Prize for the Diffusion of Design awarded with Intramuros
Catherine Colin (Made In Design) tied with Yann Desombre (Terre Design)
Designer’s Days prize for best scenography awarded with Luxe Magazine.com
B&B Italia – Silvera with Christophe Weber for “Be cartoon”
ex æquo with Sèvres Cité de la Céramique and Sam Baron for “Louis, Jeanne, Michel et les autres”
Luxe Magazine.com offers the winners a 3-night half-board stay at the Altapura hotel in Val Thorens (Groupe Sibuet).
For this last prize, the Jury distinguished 5 finalists: >B&B Italia – Silvera and Christophe Weber
>Sèvres Cité de la Céramique and Sam baron
>Tai Ping and Ramy Fischler
>Saazs and Christian Biecher
>Poltrona Frau and Noé Duchaufour Lawrance.
This year’s Designer’s Days exhibition reached a new dimension in terms of size and attendance. Bringing together designers (eliumstudio, Sabrina Transiskus, Atelier Cahen & Gregori…), major publishing houses (Cassina, Boffi Maxalto, B&B Italia….), galleries (Think & More, Gallery S Bensimon), schools (Ecole nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratif, Ecole de Saint Etienne, Duperré, Ecole Bleue…), museums (Petit Palais, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Centre Pompidou, Musée des Arts et Métiers)…. Designer’s Days celebrated design in all its forms for 5 days, opening new venues such as the Italian Embassy, the Passerelle des Arts invested by Wilmotte & Industries and the Petit h (Hermès) workshops in Pantin.
There, on the banks of the Canal de l’Ourcq, beyond the Paris ring-road, the public could discover a selection of cutting-edge exhibitions, with a focus on young artists and crafts combined with design.
The opening of this trail, launched as a challenge, proved to be a success, with both the residents of Pantin visiting the exhibitions, and the Parisian public taking the river shuttles made available by the Designer’s Days Association.
A successful challenge for this twelfth edition on the theme of Identity(ies), which enabled the Designer’s Days Association to confirm the relevance of its proposals to both the general public and professionals.
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