Global Design News and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design are proud to jointly announce the winners of the Prize Designs for Modern Furniture + Lighting 2024 for the third consecutive year since its successful debut.
In 1949, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) launched the Prize Designs for Modern Furniture to promote outstanding contemporary design.
By showcasing exemplary pieces in the furniture industry, MoMA aimed to inspire manufacturers to produce these designs for the mass market.
Seven decades later, Global Design News and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design have revived this historic event to showcase the latest design innovations in modern furniture, lighting, textiles, and floor and wall coverings from Europe, Asia, Australia, and North and South America.
“With the rise of Modernism,” stated Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, President/CEO of The Chicago Athenaeum, “innovative techniques and technologies emerged, leading to the creation of brilliantly simple, stackable, functional, and comfortable furniture, along with advanced lighting solutions.
These could be licensed, mass-produced, and made available to anyone in the consumer market.”
“Democratic Design in the 1950s, balanced by new materials and techniques like tubular steel and wood-bending, brought new energy to the design of furniture and furnishings.
At the same time, lighting, textiles, and wall and flooring treatments were being experimented with in unprecedented ways.”
“The remake of Prize Designs for Modern Furniture + Designers aims to recapture the bold spirit of vitality and experimentation exhibited by the world’s most prominent architects, designers, and manufacturers, as originally showcased by MoMA in the 1950s.”
“This international Prize Design competition aims to redefine the term ‘iconic’ by recognizing and awarding the world’s leading design and manufacturing hubs,” Narkiewicz-Laine continues.
For 2024, Prize Designs for Modern Furniture + Lighting awarded product design in the categories of furniture and lighting from the following 30 nations: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam.
More impressive is the list of visionary companies and industrial design firms producing state-of-the-art furniture and lighting, floorcovering, office furniture, storage units and seating by such leading global firms as:
AKFD Studio • Alessandro Loschiavo Design • Amorim Cork Flooring • Antonio Manuel Adauta Ferreira de Almeida • Aréa • Baker Furniture • Camera S.r.l • CGM Design LLC. • Charles O. Job. Design • DADA Goldberg • Deap Design LLC. • Designworks (a BMW Group Company) • Dirk Wynants Design Works • EOOS Design GmbH. • GME Design GmbH & Co. KG • HONOKA.lab • ICONO A/S • Jan Goderis Design Lab • Jiangxi Sanyou Furniture Co., LTD. • Joaquim Portela Arquitetos • Jones & De Leval • Karimoku Furniture Inc. • KEM STUDIO • Lalande Living • Landscape Forms • Lamas Design • Ligne Roset • Luigi Trenti • mmcité a.s. • nienkamper International Inc. • Nobonobo • Pecadora • Rottet Studio • Sanjay Puri Architects • Says Who • Senosiain Arquitectos • SheltonMindel • Studio Ballendat • Studio Segers • studiopmw • Tapio Anttila Collection Ltd. • Tetra Stool • Xander Noori LLC.
Leading manufacturers, corporations, and furniture specialists include:
Aliantedizioni • Amorim Cork Italia SpA. • Antonio Manuel Adauta Ferreira de Almeida • Aréa • Baker Furniture • Casapitti • DADA Goldberg • Das Konzept AG • Deap Design LLC • Division Twelve • Extremis NV. • GME Design GmbH & Co. KG • HONOKA.lab • ICONO A/S • Jan Goderis Design Lab • Jiangxi Sanyou Furniture Co., LTD • Joaquim Portela Arquitetos • Karimoku Furniture Inc. • Keilhauer Ltd. • Lalande Living • Landscape Forms • Lee Jong In • Lock and Mortice • Molteni&C. SpA. • mmcité a.s. • mmcité a.s. • nienkamper International Inc. • nienkamper International Inc. International • Nobonobo/kaza design • Pecadora • Patio Brasíl Móveis • RALPH PUCCI International • Roset USA Inc. • Says Who • Senosiain Arquitectos • Tapio Anttila Collection Ltd. • Tetra Stool • Woodcrafting Studio
You can find all all the Prize Designs 2024 Winners on prizedesignsaward.com and on globaldesignnews.com.
The 2024 Prize Designs winners are featured in an upcoming book entitled New Modern Furniture + Lighting 2024, by Metropolitan Arts Press and edited by Christian Narkiewicz-Laine.
On Friday, October 11th, Global Design News and The Chicago Athenaeum will open the exhibition ‘New Modern Furniture + Lighting 2024’ at the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies in Athens, Greece. The exhibition continues to November 10th.
On the same evening, the awards ceremony will take place to honor this year’s winners during an exclusive design Gala and grant them the award trophies for this prestigious accolade.
The deadline for Prize Designs for Modern Furniture + Lighting 2025 is March 15, 2025.
