The project Trad, by designers Josue Gamonal and Vicente Porres (Madrid), has won the Third Maria Martinez Otero Industrially-Produced Designer Furniture Award, endowed with 6.000 euros. The theme of this third edition was "The child's universe."
The awarding panel agreed unanimously and pointed out that the project represents an innovative concept that broadens the typology of children furniture, thanks to its references to nature and its playhouse and shelter-like quality.
The jury members also highlighted the simplicity and presentation of the proposal, as well as its poetry.
"Trad is not only a storage system, Trad is a shelter, a personal space where children carry out their fantasies and games. A place that allows them to feel safe, to learn and to imagine. That enchanted wood where one can dream of heroes and princesses, witches and dragons... and live a thousand and one adventures."
"The tree, as an icon for wisdom, shelter and playground, symbol of life and growth. Approach to an increasingly absent nature, as a comeback to traditional games, towards imagination development, with no artifices, as a basis for the growth of the child's personal world."
Next to the main award, entries submitted as BOX, by KXdesigners studio members Katia R. Glossmann and Xabier Tuto (Barcelona) and Un Moises para MO, by architects Carlos A. Pita Abad, Jose Carlos Iglesias Fernández and Tono Garcia Mejuto (A Coruna), have been granted honorary mentions.