Sofa project wins design award
20/06/2012
Irregular Bomb was designed by Paris-based designer Robert Stadler and manufactured in partnership with three artisans, Bernadette N’Guyen, Maurice Barnabe´ and Jean-Paul Mahe´. As a result, it was named as the winner of the Dialogue award in the 2012 edition of the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for craftsmanship, Intelligence de la Main.
They shared the award of EUR 100,000 with Wayne Fischer, a US-born but French-based ceramics artist, who won the Talent award at the event.
A panel of judges that included the head of the Louvre museum, Henri Loyrette, and Pascale Mussard, artistic director and vice-president of the Herme`s Foundation, described Irregular Bomb as a monolithic shape entirely covered in leather with Chesterfield-effect buttons. They praised the “intense exchange” of communication that went on between the designers and the artisans over the look, the ergonomics and the possible manufacturing techniques.
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