Introducing the six champions of the 12th SaloneSatellite Award

Out of a hundred entries, here are the winners of SaloneSatellite Awards 2023

Since 1998, the Salone del Mobile in Milan has been providing a space for designers under 35 with exceptional creative abilities through the form of SaloneSatellite. The latter is an international showcase of young talents and much-deserved recognition. It aims to facilitate the relationship between businesses and these designers in preparation for their post-study, market, and profession.

SaloneSatellite's 12th edition is about safeguarding sustainability and community thinking while channelling innovation of process and tradition. Just last week, April 19, the jury for the prestigious event unanimously selected the six winners—three prizes and three special mentions—out of a hundred entries.

First Prize: 'Tatami Refab' by Honoka from Japan

Above First Prize: Honoka, Japan

3D printing and reclaimed poor materials meet in a versatile project that innovatively reintroduces traditional marks and culture into everyday life and domestic spaces. Tatami is declining year by year. The Tatami Refab Project re-embeds Tatami into modern life using 3D printing technology.

Above Honoka, Japan

Above Tatami Refab

Second Prize: 'Triplex Stool' by Studio Ryte from Hong Kong

From lightweight to efficient structure, compactness to sustainability, the flax fibre Triplex Stool is an experimental furniture piece that responds to the nomadic lifestyle of the current era.

Above Studio Ryte, Hong Kong

Above Triplex Stool (Photo from dezeen)

Flax, a sustainable, lightweight wood fibre, lends itself to a contemporary revisiting of powerful Brutalist language.

Third Prize: 'Kudoazò' by Ahokpe + Chatelin (Belgium is Design) from Belgium

A hanging bed designed and handwoven in Benin for European interiors. The fabric comes from unravelled yarn from sweaters that end up on African markets, the shape informed by the strip.

Above Ahokpe + Chatelin (Belgium is Design), Belgium's Kudoazò

Conceived in Belgium and produced in Benin from recycled materials, this ancient object expresses sustainability channelled by a marriage of traditions and handiwork that breaks down geographical barriers and colonialist aspirations.

Above 12th SaloneSatellite Award 2023 Winners

SPECIAL MENTIONS

'Junki' by Joaquin Ivan Sansone from Argentina

The Junki bench is born from research into the material, creating a sturdy bench, thanks to the combined minimum force of each element. It showcases the power of nature to resist.

Above Joaquin Ivan Sansone, Argentina

Above Junki

Simplicity is essential in this object, which makes most of the material's intrinsic properties in a viable, good-looking solution that emits a message of resilience.

'Primitive Structure' by Weonrhee from the Republic of Korea

In this project, the designer has focused on two points. The first is the cycle of the material during the building process. The second is the primitive origins of her own culture.

Above Primitive Structure

Culture of origin and contemporary design converge in a process that experiments with and reinvents primitive forms, adapting them to new demands.

'Avocado Seed Brick' by Fragmentario from the USA

The brick made with avocado seeds and a binder made from Sargassum algae is one of the applications of the research led by the designer on the properties and use of avocado seeds to balance material excesses and shortages.

Above Avocado Seed Brick

Harnessing the most diverse applications, it embodies contrasting places and resources in an ongoing, fruitful interaction that enriches the project as a whole, born of a simple seed.

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Introducing the six champions of the 12th SaloneSatellite Awards