Wallpaper*, the international design, fashion and lifestyle bible, has announced the winners of its 2012 Design Awards. Included among the prestigious honours, now in their eighth year, are London for best city, David Chipperfield Architects’ Hepworth Wakefield gallery as best public building, Belgium’s Raf Simons for best menswear collection and Tokyo-based Nendo as designer of the year.
Eleven of the awards have been decided by an international judging panel that includes cross-dressing artist Grayson Perry; New York-based Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly; Swiss art auctioneer and co-founder of Phillips de Pury, Simon de Pury; head of Bulthaup, the German kitchen manufacturer, Gerd Bulthaup; and photographer/art director/illustrator Jean-Paul Goude. The remaining award winners have been selected by the magazine’s editors and international contributors.
A full list of all the award winners will be published in the best-selling February issue of Wallpaper*, out in stores in 93 countries on 12 January and available with additional exclusive material as Wallpaper’s iPad edition.
The list of winners features also several Swiss names!
Best launch
Altaïr collection
Stéphane Parmentier (France), for Ormond Editions (Switzerland)
Best material
Unlimited ring
Cora Sheibani (Switzerland)
Best domestic design
Alfredo bowl and carafe
Alfredo Häberli (Switzerland), for Georg Jensen (Denmark)
Best domestic design
LC1 outdoor armchair
Le Corbusier (Switzerland), Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, from Cassina (Italy)
Life-enhancer of the year
Lookout point at Ruta del Peregrino, Mexico
HHF Architects (Switzerland)
