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Reconciled Fragments Coffee-table

Designed by T SAKHI - Tessa & Tara Sakhi This collection is inspired by the the notion of decomposing materials as fragments in order to recompose them into one solid whole. “Reconciled Fragments” interprets this movement with gathered waste of Forest Green marble and aggregates of brass powder, from the surrounding local factories in Beirut, which they dispersed on a wooden organic-shaped wooden mold.

Photography

Journalism

Chicago Architecture Biennial tackles land rights, social justice, and more

Collaboration

"Sundays" by Paola Sakr for Kvadrat Febrik

Hospitality & Commercial

Collection

The Top 8 submissions in each category will receive recognition as Créateurs Selects and move on to the final round of voting. The three most voted submissions will be the official CDA nominees and invited to participate during the award ceremony.

Collection

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Transparency Matters / Draga & Aurel

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For the collection, Draga & Aurel took inspiration from Minimalism’s simplified volumes, the retro-futuristic experimentation of Space Age design and the eye-bending patterns of Optical Art. Together, they have brilliantly synthesized these varied influences to build an all-new collection, entirely fabricated by hand in their Como atelier. Working with transparent material, such as coloured resin, bronze, brass and cast glass, in an inspired mineral palette, the duo has designed all-new seating, tables, lighting, bookshelves, desks and room dividers that span both indoor and outdoor.

Spacey / Lasvit

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Look into the telescope. What do you see? There are millions of shining dots on a canvas painted by the universe itself. In the telescope’s eyelet this beauty is seemingly within your reach, but take your eye off the apparatus and...it disappears. The Spacey chandelier keeps the beauty of the universe inside your living room.

Amazonas / Morfosi

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The "Amazonas" collection, designed by Giorgio Bonaguro, represents the debut of Morfosi in the Outdoor area. Characterized by the use of marble combined with wicker, it is inspired by the luxuriant and exuberant nature of Brazil.
As the vegetation of rainforest flows and spreads from the earth to the light, so the wicker is born from the marble and creates sinuous and elegant shapes that incorporate and support the stone. Two natural materials that are not simply combined, but intertwine to create new furnishing elements.

Olympus Series / Pietro Franceschini

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Neoteny is the condition in which an organism reaches maturity without loosing all of its juvenile characteristics. An exhibit at A/D/O in Brooklyn about the possibility of a ‘Neotenic Design‘ has been the starting point for a deep research in terms of language and materiality, leading to Pietro’s first furniture collection: Olympus. It is a diverse and experimental body of works. Classical and majestic meet young and playful.

Sand in Motion collection / Rive Roshan

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Movement of sand caught in a moment of time. A collection of 8 collectible sand objects formed through 3D printing with the natural material itself.

The collection consist of various vessels, a chair, large mirror and side tables that are
named after a particular movement that shaped their organic and kinetic identity, frozen in motion.

The sand objects consist of 98 percent Bavarian sand - an extremely soft white quartz natural material. Regardless of its fragile and tactile appearance, the object is amazingly strong.

Collaboration

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ZEPHYR by ALISON ROSE

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Natural stone is an exciting canvas for the kind of art that Zephyr represents. Its inherent unpredictability and variation are part of its lasting beauty, a fact that Alison understood and embraced when embarking on this project. "Working with natural materials like veined marble allows for an “unplanned” and exciting disruption in the repeat of a pattern. It’s this natural veining that excites me - and black, white and gold tones showcase the modernist dimension.”

The Knit! Exhibition - Sundays
Paola Sakr for Kvadrat Febrik

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On Sundays, we break bread under a cloud of laughter and endless conversations. Lebanese food brings people together: family, friends and guests. I believe that the most meaningful aspect of my home that I could share with the rest of the world is this beautiful ritual for how well it reflects the essence of our culture. The generosity, the chaos, the diversity, the warmth, the openness and the hospitality of the people.

“Sundays” is a collection of tableware items typically found around a Lebanese dining table.

Stilled Life / Rive Roshan

Rive Roshan
Moooi Carpets
Sandhelden
Marie Stella Maris
Galerie KRL

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Stilled Life, a poetic immersive experiential installation, a sculptural garden, capturing the sound of silence and the beauty of a fleeting moment. The artistic spatial composition offered visitors moments of reflection and visual wonder in a sanctuary of textures and materiality.

Sabine Marcelis X cc-tapis

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Sabine Marcelis, known for her masterful manipulation of color and shade, debuts
a new collection for cc-tapis, Stroke. Each room is envisioned as a blank canvas and
the rug as the singular gesture onto which one builds a composition. Starting from
these domestic associations, Marcelis considers the expressive potential of everyday
life. “The house is like a canvas and we are constantly creating drawings and marks
and traces with our daily gestures. Strokes, wipes, brushes, streaks; surfaces become
a temporary canvas. The rugs I designed for cc-tapis capture two of those gestures
in a permanent state,” she says of her creative process, which also took cues from
Lichtenstein’s pop-art brushstroke paintings and the colorful fields of Pablo Tomek’s
spontaneous movements, harnessing the totality of the gesture within each design.

The Steinway & Sons Kravitz Grand

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Steinway & Sons and Lenny Kravitz created a limited edition piano that retails for $500,000 USD. Steinway & Sons will produce no more than 10 Kravitz Grand pianos, which will be the only ones that will ever be made.

Transcendent by Jamy Yang
Tai Ping Carpets

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Transcendent by Jamy Yang
Evoking science, art and physics, Transcendent nods to multi-dimensional worlds where forces transform, distort and fracture light or matter in dramatic patterns. The Tai Ping artisans interpreted Jamy Yang’s ambitious ideas into a series of luscious, luxurious rugs.
“The slender, vertical yarns were woven into a stunning picture-like magic,” says Yang, of his visit to Tai Ping Xiamen Artisan Workshop. “At the same time, the horizontally stretched lines behind the carpet also intrigued me.
These unfinished, raw threads showed a deeper meaning, which made me think about time and space. I was attracted by the exquisite skills of the artisans.”

Workshop/APD for Arteriors Collection

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An exclusive licensed collection designed for Arteriors - leading provider of luxury lighting, furniture and décor based in Texas - by Workshop/APD, a design and architecture firm based in New York City. The collection of residential and commercial-grade lighting and decorative accessories bears the signature “crafted modern” approach that has defined Workshop/APD’s award-winning projects for two decades.

Commercial & Hospitality

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Mozaic Bar

ark4lab of architecture

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Ark4lab is an open Architecture laboratory based in Thessaloniki , Greece, devoted to contemporary architectural design and research. It was founded by George Tyrothoulakis and Evdokia Voudouri , both graduated in Architecture at Aristotele University of Thessaloniki. Since 2010 Ark4lab explores and develops its practice through all scales and media. Their projects include buildings, residential projects, hotel design, landscape, urban design, exhibitions and interior design, academic and educational projects covering all stages of the project, from the design phase to project management. Ark4lab are obsessed with authenticity in each project working closely with clients for a unique experience for the user of their living space.

Lisbon Showroom

Casa do Passadiço

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Casa do Passadiço - Interiors was born in 1992, when Catarina Rosas converted a 18th century Manor House in Braga, Portugal, in a privileged showroom and founded the atelier with the same name. Her daughters Cláudia and Catarina Soares Pereira soon joined her to proceed with the work of architecture and interior design.
The atelier signature style integrates a well-balanced contemporary elegance and discreet luxury and their works are known to be sophisticated, elegant and simultaneously timeless and comfortable that can be described as a ‘reinterpreted classical’.

Palazzo Avino

Cristina Celestino

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Palazzo Avino is a stunning five-star deluxe hotel on Italy’s famed Amalfi coast. Built by the Avino Family in what was once a 12th century private villa for an Italian noble family and opened as a hotel in 1997.
Tucked away in the medieval hilltop village of Ravello, the dramatic hotel is perched high on the cliffs, above the sparkling Mediterranean.

Harrods Dining Hall

David Collins Studio

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David Collins Studio designed the Harrods Dining Hall, as part of a 4 year renovation of the department store's historic food halls. The 491 sqm hall delivers a restaurant counter experience for 194 covers within the ground floor of one of the world's most iconic department stores.
Upon entry, guests are immediately greeted with the theatre of food preparation and provenance. 5 stand-alone counter dining experiences (The Sushi Bar, The Grill, The Fish Bar, Kama by Vineet, The Pasta Bar) wrap around the room, with a Wine Bar counter in the centre.

Kohan Ceram Central Office Building

HOOBA Design Group

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The project was designed as the headquarters for Kohan Ceram Brick Manufacturing Company. Preserving the existing concrete structure, the multifunctional complex was designed including a showroom, a sales office,.
Integration of elements such as interior and exterior, introversion and extroversion, façade and space, transparency and solidity, natural and artificial lighting, creates a new phenomenon which not only carries features from both components, but also introduces new values to the system. In other words, design challenges were resolved by merging these dual components into unique elements.

Ayla Golf Academy

Oppenheim Architecture

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The Ayla Golf Academy takes inspiration from the natural dunescapes and mountains of the Jordanian desert and the architectural heritage of the ancient Bedouin. The innovative and organic design of the building forms the iconic core of the Ayla Oasis mixed-use resort development in Aqaba city.

Park Hyatt Kyoto

tonychi studio

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Inspired by the natural surroundings of the historic Higashiyama Hills, tonychi studio designed the Park Hyatt Kyoto as a modern “Mountain House” interpretation of timeless Kyoto culture.

Pairing traditional Japanese design, architecture, and artisanal craftsmanship with sleek, contemporary curation, the hotel serves to amplify the silence of the mountains and rolling hills that envelop it.