Press Release
Silver A' Design Award in Furniture Accessories, Hardware and Materials Design Goes to Punto Door Handle by Robby Cantarutti
Robby Cantarutti recognized for furniture accessories, hardware and materials 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 Silver A' Design Award in the Furniture Accessories, Hardware and Materials Design category for Punto Door Handle by Robby Cantarutti, designed for Fimet Maniglie. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Punto Door Handle
Punto is a door handle designed for everyday doors. The form of Punto comes from research into historical handles and their shapes. The proportions follow a constant ratio of one to two, and this relation links all the geometries of the handle. Punto measures 150 by 60 by 50 millimetres. The handle is made by die casting in aluminium or in brass. Aluminium versions are powder coated, while brass versions are polished or chromed. The simplified shape helps the user read at once how the door is opened.
Award Record
This recognition makes Robby Cantarutti a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2016 - 2017 and the 2019 - 2020 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Furniture Accessories, Hardware and Materials Design Award
The A' Furniture Accessory Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good furniture accessories by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to furniture accessory designers, hardware designers, material designers and industrial design studios from all countries. Typical entries include knobs, handles, hinges, casters, sliders and brackets. The awarded furniture accessory designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/furniture-accessory
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/94559
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/94559
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!94559
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/105578
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Punto Door Handle
- Function
- Door Handle
- Category
- Furniture Accessories, Hardware and Materials Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Black, Silver, Lavender and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Fimet Maniglie
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Robby Cantarutti
- Country
- Italy
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #94559
Credits
- Team
- robby cantarutti and partners
- Image Credits
- orazio pugliese
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- the form of the handle in addition to being inspired by the "type" of the handle highlights a very important formal relationship, the geometries and the relationship between the parties are always like ½. the result is unique is almost a mathematical function where with this resulting form the elements that generate it can only be used. report 1/2 has given a good inspiration
- Inspiration
- the punto handle comes from a very apprfonded research on historical handles and their shapes. many handles have been analyzed which have had a big formal significance within the development of this item and after attentive sedimentation and overlapping of such shapes i have been able to take the shape of the point. this handle seems always existed in his being and it is just this the goal i was looking for: obtaining a classic form not starting from the classic but from development and a game o
- Research
- my design language is based on the search for the essential and in this case the objective has been centered
- Challenge
- a good result of the project is when the reading by the user is clear, for example a handle must read itself as an object that opens the door and it must be clear how it works. the simplification elaborated on this topic has in my opinion had a very good result
- Realization and Technology
- the handle is made in die-cast aluminum or brass molding, in the case of aluminum it is powder coated and enl brass case is cleaned / polished or chrome
- Operation and Interaction
- elementary function of a handle
- Project Duration and Location
- the project had a duration of a year and the research is developed on the formal history research of the handmade object
- Keywords
- simplification of the handle of a door
