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marzo 29, 2022 - Gandia Blasco Group

Gandiablasco announces the 15th International Outdoor Furniture Design Contest

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The brand of contemporary #design furniture invites young talents to present projects for office outdoor spaces. The deadline to apply is the 19th of July.

Today, the 29th of March, the #gandiablasco 15th InternationalOutdoor Furniture #design Contest officially starts. After the 2021 break due to the pandemic, it returns one of the reference recognitions for emerging designers in the field of outdoor furniture and accessories #design.

Since 2006, this event is held annually to promote and propel the work of students and #design professionals aged 18 - 35 años, from around the world, who are at the beginning of their career. Participants can submit their applications individually or in a group until the 19th of July 2022.

This time, applicants face the challenge of designing an outdoor office. According to the rules of the competition, the designs must be an unpublished proposal, which has not been submitted to other competitions or previously featured; it has to be reproducible industrially and, finally, produced by avoiding the use of any plastic material that is not 100% recyclable.

Since its inception, the jury of the #gandiablasco International Outdoor Furniture #design Contest brings together professionals from the fields of culture, #design and from the industrial sector of furniture. In previous years, although always chaired by #joseagandiablasco, the jury has counted on architects such as: #fuensantanieto, Architect at the Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos Studio, and Manuel Aires Mateus, Architect and founder of the Aires Mateus architecture studio; designers such as: Ángel Schlesser, fashion designer, or Helena Rohner, jewelry designer in the studio Helena Rohner; entrepreneurs such as: Marcelo Ghio, director of Experimenta, or David Leppan, ffounder and CEO of World-Check, art collector and philanthropist; as well as experts of the sector such as Jesús M. Castaño García-Porrero, director of the Martin Chirino Foundation of Art and Thought in Las Palmas, Javier Abio, Co-Director and partner of the Neo2 magazine, and Juan Molins, art critic and curator of exhibitions.

In its fifteenth edition, the experts who will evaluate the nominations are #joseagandiablasco Canales, President and Creative Director of Gandia Blasco S.A.; Alvaro Matías, CEO of ALMADÁS and Director of Madrid #design Festival; Marta Alonso and Imanol Calderón, Founding architects and designers of Mayice Studio; Marisa Santamaría, Researcher, teacher and disseminator of global #design trends; and Mariví Calvo and Sandro Tothill, Co-Founder and Creative Director at LZF, and Co-Founder and CCO at LZF (Spain’s National #design Award 2020).

The members of the jury will study the projects submitted and designate the winner taking into account aspects such as creativity and innovation, the functionality of the #design and its ability to fit an outdoor space. The first and second prize consists of an endowment of €2,000 and €1,000 along with an honorary mention from #gandiablasco.

The ruling will take place in early September and the winners will be announced during the Habitat Valencia Fair, which will take place between the 20th and the 23rd of the same month, coinciding with one of the most intense months of the World #design Capital València 2022 program.

In the last edition, held in 2020 and launched to award outdoor lighting, the winning designs were Boies, by María Franco Llinares and Denis Calle, Sun, by Eduardo Blanco Espeleta, and Valeria, by Daniel San Juan, awarded with a special mention. More than 192 nominations were received from 12 different countries.

In the new landing page of Gandia Blasco Group you can find the official details to apply to the #gandiablasco 15th International Outdoor Furniture #design Contest.

Registration is free and must be done through the digital platform (https://www.gandiablasco.com/en/concurso/). 

All those who wish to participate with their projects can turn their queries to the tech support contact of the contest at gbconcurso@gandiablasco.com and until the 12th of July 2022.