ELLE Decoration 国际设计大奖 2023 | Sabine Marcelis 荣获“年度设计师”

Since 2003, the Editors-in-Chief of ELLE Decoration's international editions have recognised worldwide excellence in design in the ELLE Decoration International Design Awards (EDIDA to its friends).

The 15 award categories are Designer of the Year, Young Design Talent, Interior Designer of the Year, Furniture, Seating, Fabrics, Wallcovering, Tableware, Lighting, Bedding, Floorcovering, Kitchen, Bathroom, Outdoor and Sustainable Achievement. Previous winners have included design world greats from Patricia Urquiola to British talents such as Lee Broom, Jasper Morrison and Tom Dixon.

Every edition of the magazine independently puts forwards its suggestions for each category – our nominations come from the annual ELLE Decoration British Design Awards. From this massive global shortlist, each Editor-in-Chief nominates their preferred winners, with the votes collated at our Paris headquarters. Photographed in the new campus of Milan SDA Bocconi, designed by architecture studio SANAA, here are the winners for 2023...

Designer of the Year: Sabine Marcelis

Francesca Ferrari

From her workshop in Rotterdam, she’s grabbed the attention of design experts through her experimentation with materials, light and colour that she has transformed into captivating designs.

Using resins, glass, marble and mirrors, each of her pieces creates a dynamic scenario through a careful play on transparency, refraction and iridescence that prompts a new relationship between the objects and the space that they occupy. Her design research focuses, in fact, on the continuous interaction between compositional elements, surfaces and colours.

From domestic environments, with bespoke furniture and lamps in production for Natuzzi, Established & Sons, cc-tapis and Hem to installations such as ‘ColoRush!’ for the Vitra Design Museum and even high-tech concepts such as the electric car charging column for Audi, her simple, minimalist but highly evocative style places the emphasis on neat, geometric forms that are almost indicative of a rudimentary but continually evolving alphabet.

Young Design Talent of the Year: Linde Freya Tangelder

Francesca Ferrari

The essence of this designer’s style is already apparent in the name of her studio (which has branches in Antwerp and Brussels): Destroyers/Builders. In order to get to the very core of the style that characterises her designs you first have to ‘pare back’ and deconstruct the form in order to create something new and deeply current.

Each of her inherently conceptual projects straddles the worlds of both art and design and serves a stylish architectural purpose. This is furniture with a decidedly sculptural expressiveness but a resolutely human feel to it nevertheless. On her journey from individual items, unique pieces and limited editions to interiors, Tangelder has also recently moved into the world of product design.

Interior Designer of the Year: Giuliano Andrea dell’Uva

Francesca Ferrari

Born in 1980, the young Neapolitan designer has a rich portfolio of projects to his name, from residential properties to boutiques and even hotels. His hallmark is his ability to transform time-worn spaces into decidedly contemporary interiors with a delicate yet recognisable touch.

“My designs are inspired by the natural and cultural contexts of Naples and the Mediterranean, that mysterious alchemy between the aristocratic and the popular, between creative minds and master craftsmen”.

His stylish solutions incorporate a careful use of colour, the transparency of glass and the quality of materials such as marble and ceramic cladding, with the yellow of the sun, the turquoise of the sea and the green of the Mediterranean vegetation bringing areal touch of character to pristine surfaces.

Majolica walls and floors offer a new way of thinking about decor in a tribute to the traditions of Campania, brought bang up to date in ways that can never be taken for granted. Bespoke furniture, collectors’ designs and works of art incorporated into a truly comprehensive project. giulianoandreadelluva.it

Bathroom: Zencha by Sebastian Herkner for Duravit

Francesca Ferrari

Contemplation, relaxation and a space that’s all yours, like your own private onsen. This was the concept from which Sebastian Herkner drew his inspiration in designing the Zencha collection, based on traditional Japanese rituals and craftsmanship.

The free-standing bathtub, reminiscent of the traditional tea ceremony bowl, is characterised by a rounded base and slightly protruding upper edge, while the slightly sloping backrests inside ensure comfortable immersion. This piece is made of DuraSolid®, a material that is velvety to the touch, and available in square and rectangular versions. duravit.it

Bedding: Umu by Neri & Hu for Ariake

Francesca Ferrari

Designed as a stand-alone micro-structure, the bed designed by the Shanghai studio is characterised by its exquisitely balanced ratio of solids and voids, fine lines and balanced volumes, in a game of juxtapositions that is hinted at in the name of the collection: Umu, meaning “to be and not to be”.

Fabrics: Return to Arcadia by Luke Edward Hall for Rubelli

Francesca Ferrari

Floor Covering: Lapse 3-Tempore by Duccio Maria Gambi for CC-Tapis

Francesca Ferrari

An exuberant rug characterised by contrasting materials, volumes and colours. The eclectic style, which plays on naturalistic cues combined with graphic motifs, stems from a creative process in which the Florentine artist-designer explores the possibilities of *marks/markings* and material.

Furniture: Simoon by Patricia Urquiola for Glas Italia

Francesca Ferrari

The amethyst, light blue (pictured) and topaz hues highlight the irregular surface of the glass panes measuring barely 12mm. Assembled in basic architectural forms, they make for a simple yet sophisticated and sustainably designed table made from glass recycled from production waste that lends itself to an aesthetically-appealing design that’s also pleasant to the touch thanks to the polished profile and the contrast between rough and smooth surfaces.

Kitchen: Small Living Kitchens by Andrea Federici for Falper

Francesca Ferrari

A concept born of a careful study of contemporary living that highlights an increasing inclination to choose small spaces without compromising on quality. The Small Living Kitchens system, enhanced with accessories, finishes and precious materials, was designed with precisely this in mind.

One of its characteristic features is its mini-islands, with steel tops and sides and lacquered wooden and stainless steel fronts (pictured), or made entirely of marble with walnut internal drawers. Available in three standard widths of 120cm, 150cm and 180cm. To be combined with cupboards housing appliances and internal or openwork storage compartments to create compact wall units. falper.it

Lighting: Serpentine by Front for Moooi

Francesca Ferrari

A lightweight lamp resembling a spiral in motion. With the evanescence of an oriental lantern, the Serpentine suspension lamp seamlessly balances form and function, the black lines outlining the spokes and profiles of its diffuser cones designed to emphasise the dynamism of its forms.

Seating: Loop by India Mahdavi for Gebruder Thonet Vienna

Francesca Ferrari

The French designer has come up with a lounge chair featuring the brand’s characteristic material, bent beechwood, whose flexibility has been pushed to its limits. Loop is characterised by the dual curve of the two looped armrests that enhance the piece in terms of both structure and design at the same time.

Sustainable Achievement: Studio Ossidiana

Francesca Ferrari

Rotterdam-based Alessandra Covini and Giovanni Bellotti enjoy experimenting with inter-species cohabitation. As architects and expert ornithologists, the pair have developed their mother discipline with a passion for animals since they were students at the University of Technology, in Delft, and MIT, in the States.

Then came the turning point, when Hashim Sarkis, former curator of the Venice International Architecture Exhibition, called them, ‘Furniture for a Human and a Parrot’ featured at the Arsenale, and ‘coexistence’ emerged as a central theme for the future of the planet. ‘Towers, platforms, shared spaces... our ecosystems are for everyone,’ they explain, ‘structures made of expanded clay of various porosities that are transformed by the birds that feed on them into spaces of interaction’ since humans can also sit there.

Tableware: Cadence by Pierre Chaprin for Saint-Louis

Francesca Ferrari

A collection of table accessories, vases and lamps that really showcase the historic French manufacturer’s expertise.

Wall Covering: Fungi Forest by Stella McCartney for Cole & Sons

Francesca Ferrari

The British fashion designer and pioneer of sustainable fashion has designed a wallpaper that merges ecology and communication. Resembling a contemporary toile de Jouy print and available in Burgundy (pictured) and Navy blue, Fungi Forest is printed on a new ecosubstrate derived from 79% renewable fibres.

Outdoor: Fornasetti’s GiardinoI Delle Nature Possibili

Francesca Ferrari

Fornasetti’s first outdoor furniture and upholstery collection is further evidence of the long-established Milanese atelier’s passion for eclectic technical and aesthetic experimentation.

Styling Martina Lucatelli, artwork Massimo Colonna