London Design Medal laureate Ilse Crawford – part of the six-strong jury for the Judges’ Awards, the Wallpaper* Design Awards’ highest honours – on design for a better reality, and our wor...
director Ben Evans pointed out that there was no better time to celebrate the British designer’s pioneering approach to wellbeing in a design context than the present, when the world craves connection, intimacy and nurturing. The jury citation mentioned interiors projects such as the 2017 Refettorio Felix at St Cuthbert’s community hall as examples of desiging with empathy and prioritising wellbeing.Refettorio Felix at St Cuthbert’s community hall, 2017.
Studioilse’s restoration of Aino and Alvar Aalto’s iconic Ravintola Savoy restaurant from 1937, in collaboration with Artek, 2020. ’Our approach took its cue from the original interior, peeling back the layers and introducing only subtle aspects to reinforce the original spirit,’ reads a statement from the studio describing the project. ’The Aaltos believed that one of the main missions of modern architecture was to “refine materials in a more humane direction”. And so do we.
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