Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec get a Design of The Year nomination by Anca on Jan 15. 2013 Après brings News, Design around London
2013 starts with exciting news! Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec were nominated at the Furniture category of the Design of the Year awards by Design Museum for their creative shelving solution, Corniches.
Corniches solves the need for small storage spaces to spontaneously keep items. You can arrange as many Corniches as you like on the walls of your home where you need small storage spaces or want to create an interesting and unique shelving system.
The French Bouroullec brothers’ design are based around the need for flexibility and lightness and Corniches illustrates the idea of creating an impromptu storage area.
Previous Bouroullec designs include the Vegetal Chairs, Workbays Acoustic Meeting area and the Alcove acoustic sofas and cabin collection.
The Designs of the Year awards presents the most innovative and imaginative designs from around the world in seven categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Transport and Product. Category winners and the overall winner will be decided by a jury and announced to the public on 17 April 2013. Good luck to Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec and we’ll keep our readers updated on the results.