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Sfumato Shelving System by Nedim Mutevelic - Filter Wins the Platinum A' Design Award in Furniture Design
Nedim Mutevelic - Filter acknowledged for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Platinum A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category for Sfumato Shelving System by Nedim Mutevelic - Filter, designed for Ancona Grupa, brand Nunc. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Platinum A' Design Award Explained
The Platinum A' Design Award is recognized for honoring designs that stand at the forefront of creativity and innovation. It is the highest accolade bestowed by the A' Design Awards, acknowledging works that blend remarkable innovation with impactful societal contributions. These designs not only showcase exceptional artistic and technical proficiency but also highlight their creators' commitment to advancing the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Recipients of this award are celebrated for their role in shaping the aesthetics and trends of our time, contributing significantly to the enhancement of quality of life and promoting sustainable development.
More About Sfumato Shelving System
Sfumato is a modular shelving system for living and office spaces. The outline of Sfumato recalls an urban skyline, wide and solid at the bottom, fragmented at the top, with a continuous horizontal base. Modules of different heights and depths are combined to create many configurations and sizes. The system can stand alone or be mounted on a wall. Open shelves display small objects, while closed doors conceal them. The body, shelves, partitions and front panels are made of MDF with a matt lacquer finish.
About Nedim Mutevelic - Filter
Nedim Mutevelic is an architect and designer who lives and works in Sarajevo. Educated at Faculty of Architecture in Sarajevo (2005-2011) and at Barcelona School of Architecture - ETSAB (2009-2010). Co-founder of FILTER architecture (2009), one of the most prosperous young architectural studios in Bosnia and Herzegovina (www.filter.ba) Co-founder of LIFT - spatial initiatives (2012), an non-governmental organisation that organizes lectures, exhibitions and interactive installations about urban phenomena (www.l-i-f-t.org).
Award Record
With this recognition, Nedim Mutevelic - Filter is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Furniture Design Award
The A' Furniture Design Award is an international furniture competition recognizing good furniture designs by best furniture designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to furniture designers, product designers, industrial design studios and furniture brands from all countries. Entries typically include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. Awarded furniture designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/furniture
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/75768
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/75768
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!75768
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/160598
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://nunc.design/products/sfumato/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Sfumato Shelving System
- Function
- Shelving System
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Gray, Dark Gray, Gainsboro and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Ancona Grupa, brand Nunc
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Nedim Mutevelic - Filter
- Country
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Recognition
- Platinum A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #75768
Credits
- Team
- Nedim Mutevelić, Kenan Vatrenjak, Asmir Mutevelić, Vedad Islambegović and Ibrica Jašarević
- Image Credits
- All photos copyright: Nunc Ancona
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The dynamic outline of this shelf system evokes the skyline of an urban landscape – spacious and massive at the bottom, broken and fragmented at the top, with a continuous horizontal base. Different configurations and dimensions are realized through the simple combining of the modules. Sfumato is a modular, stand-alone or wall shelf system for your small items. Those you want to exhibit or hide, either with a play of shadows or closed doors.
- Inspiration
- Scaled and stylized, visually-compelling reflection of metropolis for contemporary indoor spaces. Stable and hard on bottom, blurred and soft on top, continuous and endless horizontally... The dynamic structure with various heights, depths and transparencies creates apartments with different atmospheres, required by Sfumato residents - various everyday objects.
- Research
- The main research was focused visual language for modular system that would make the seamless whole, in any case of composition of three or more elements.
- Challenge
- The hardest part of design was to find a visual language for modular system that would make the seamless whole, in any case of composition of three or more elements.
- Realization and Technology
- Body, shelves, partitions and front panels MDF, matt lacquered.
- Operation and Interaction
- For Living and Office spaces. It interacts with walls or empty space behind by not having the straight top line but having the dynamic appearance.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started at the beginning of 2018 in Sarajevo (B&H) and Djakovo (Croatia), and was produced in Djakovo (Croatia) during 2018, list of fairs and exhibitions: IMM, Cologne (Germany) in January 2019 BIG SEE AWARD - MONTH OF DESIGN, Ljubljana (Slovenia) in October 2019 AMBIENTA, Furniture Fair, Zagreb (Croatia) in October 2019 BFF, Belgrade (Serbia) in November 2019 AMBIENT Fair, Ljubljana (Slovenia) in November 2019 IMM, Cologne (Germany) in January 2020 and was planned to be presented at SALONE DEL MOBILE, Milano (Italy) in April 2020 Awarded Big See Product Design Award 2019
- Specifications
- MODULE A 228x68cm MODULE B 194x68cm MODULE C 15068cm
- Keywords
- shelves, shelving system, modules
