The Chicago Athenaeum
Good Design Award 2021
Claudio Silvestrin has been awarded The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design – Good Design® Award 2021 for his design of Cosmic desk created for Promemoria/Ghianda.
The essence and characteristic of this solid wood desk, rigorously absent of right angles, is that there is a hidden draw carved in an enormous sphere of solid pear wood that slots into the surface of the desk, supporting the desk itself.
The other characteristic, of no less importance, is the intentional absence of right angles, allowing the shape and the material (the walnut top and the pear sphere) to be perceived as weightless, as if they were suspended in pure space.
GOOD DESIGN® is the oldest and the most prestigious Awards Program organized worldwide.
Founded in Chicago in 1950 by the former MoMA curator Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., together with such pioneers in modern design as Charles and Ray Eames, Russel Wright, George Nelson, and Eero Saarinen, GOOD DESIGN® honors the yearly achievements of the best industrial and graphic designers and world manufacturers for their pursuit of extraordinary design excellence.
Claudio Silvestrin has been awarded the Good Design® Award 2021 for his design of Cosmic desk created for Promemoria/Ghianda.
The essence and characteristic of this solid wood desk, rigorously absent of right angles, is that there is a hidden draw carved in an enormous sphere of solid pear wood that slots into the surface of the desk, supporting the desk itself.
The other characteristic, of no less importance, is the intentional absence of right angles, allowing the shape and the material (the walnut top and the pear sphere) to be perceived as weightless, as if they were suspended in pure space.
GOOD DESIGN® is the oldest and the most prestigious Awards Program organized worldwide.
Founded in Chicago in 1950 by the former MoMA curator Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., together with such pioneers in modern design as Charles and Ray Eames, Russel Wright, George Nelson, and Eero Saarinen, GOOD DESIGN® honors the yearly achievements of the best industrial and graphic designers and world manufacturers for their pursuit of extraordinary design excellence.
Claudio Silvestrin has been awarded the Good Design® Award 2021 for his design of Cosmic desk created for Promemoria/Ghianda.
The essence and characteristic of this solid wood desk, rigorously absent of right angles, is that there is a hidden draw carved in an enormous sphere of solid pear wood that slots into the surface of the desk, supporting the desk itself.
The other characteristic, of no less importance, is the intentional absence of right angles, allowing the shape and the material (the walnut top and the pear sphere) to be perceived as weightless, as if they were suspended in pure space.
GOOD DESIGN® is the oldest and the most prestigious Awards Program organized worldwide.
Founded in Chicago in 1950 by the former MoMA curator Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., together with such pioneers in modern design as Charles and Ray Eames, Russel Wright, George Nelson, and Eero Saarinen, GOOD DESIGN® honors the yearly achievements of the best industrial and graphic designers and world manufacturers for their pursuit of extraordinary design excellence.