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The Italian brand Visionnaire has announced that two products from its new Volare collection are the winners of the prestigious Archiproducts Design Awards 2023. The Shibari armchair and the Duncan kitchen have won Awards in the furniture and kitchen categories respectively owing to their concept and design. Moreover, the Shibari has also won the 2023 'Sustainability Award' decided by a dedicated jury of specialists in eco-design and sustainability.
Winner in the furniture design category, the Shibari armchair designed by Studiopepe features a knot, which since ancient times has acquired a symbolic meaning of connection between two people. The word 'knot' has become associated with the word 'love' precisely to emphasise the nature of a bond. This unique armchair also won the 2023 Sustainability Award for distinguishing features, from the long-lasting fabric composed of recycled wool to the construction techniques adopted to ensure proper disassembly for disposal. Studiopepe has also been named designers of the year, Visionnaire has been collaborating with the duo for over two years now and for the brand they recently created the immersive installation 'L’Impero dei Sensi' which can still be visited at the brand flagship store in Piazza Cavour 3, in Milan.
The winner in the kitchen category, Duncan is the new hideaway kitchen designed by Alessandro La Spada, which has been conceived as a treasure chest, the sliding panel is a surface of metal tiles in a polished antique finish, arranged to form an elaborate geometric pattern, which like a frieze and a precious 'skin' contains the kitchen inside it.
The Shibari armchair represents Visionnaire's second win in the Sustainability category, underscoring the brand's ongoing commitment to sustainable design. In 2022, Visionnaire’s Ca’ Foscari sofa was also declared the winner of the Archiproducts Design Sustainability Awards 2022 thanks to its upholstery, a fabric with highly performing characteristics belonging to the 'Re-Generation' sample book, a research project of the brand in which only those materials that respect characteristics of low environmental impact are inserted and selected.
The brand's Art Director and Co-Founder Eleonore Cavalli and Art Curator Marco Morandini together with designers Chiara di Pinto from Studiopepe and Alessandro La Spada received the prizes from Rossella Arena, International Account Manager of Archiproducts, during the ADA Night in Milan in November 2023.
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