Poltrona Frau and Parsons The New School for Design have announced the three winning designs of the “Wasteless” competition, during the 2013 International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF). Jenny Hsu was awarded first place for her design Piqnique, a woven case for meals on the go that doubles as a luxurious leather placemat. Yuna Kim and Benjamin Billick came in second and third respectively for their designs, the Miovino leather wine glass tags and Tuft candle holders.
Wasteless
Poltrona Frau and the Parsons School of Design have announced the three winning designs for “Wasteless”, a competition where left-over scraps of leather were converted into luxury pieces.
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- 23 May 2013
- New York
The judges also conferred an honorable mention to Noemi Szalavari, with her Spirale vase. All the student designs were displayed at the Poltrona Frau showroom in Soho during ICFF.
Under designer Andrea Ruggiero, fifteen Parsons product design students worked to convert left-over scraps of Poltrona Frau leather into luxury accessory pieces, in an attempt to maximise the potential of the material. The finalised projects were presented to a panel of judges consisting of Poltrona Frau's Federico Materazzi; designer Massimo Vignelli; Metropolis magazine's Paul Makovsky, Parsons' Mark Bechtel, Andrea Ruggiero and Poltrona Frau's Sara Gobbo.