Designer of the Year Award 2008
Fernando & Humberto Campana
HUMBERTO CAMPANA
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FERNANDO CAMPANA
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Design Miami/ is honored to present the 2008 Designer of the Year Award to Fernando & Humberto Campana. This award is presented every December in Miami to an established designer or collective whose advanced body of work demonstrates quality, innovation and influence.
For the last 20 years, Estúdio Campana has created singularly joyful and expressive designs that bridge handcraft, limited edition, and mass production. Their work has been embraced throughout the world, and yet it remains rooted in a highly personal vision. Their frequent use of discarded and mundane materials has foreshadowed the current trend toward re-appropriation in contemporary design. We congratulate Fernando & Humberto for their unique contribution to design history.
Each Designer of the Year Award comes with a commission to create a site-specific installation. For their commission, the Campana Brothers have created Diamantina, an evolution of their TransPlastic series unveiled at Albion Gallery in London in 2007.
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'Ilha'
Photograph by: Ed Reeves
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'Transrock'
Photograph by: Fernando Lazlo
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Using the native Brazilian plant Apuí, which grows on and eventually chokes rainforest trees, TransPlastic designs feature this rattan-like fiber woven around plastic garden chairs and other ready-made plastic objects, such as discarded toys, dolls, flip-flops and tires. Like the rainforest trees, the man-made objects are almost entirely swallowed up by the organic material, symbolizing nature’s triumph over the synthetic world. With Diamantina, the Campana Brothers have expanded on this concept by introducing native Brazilian amethyst crystals into the weave structure, creating a series of biomorphic islands that Design Miami/ visitors are encouraged to sit on and explore. Brazil is one of the most abundant sources of amethyst quartz, and the combination of the colorful crystals and woven grass fiber celebrates nature as an essential building block and touchstone of design.
Design Miami/ is proud to announce that this year’s prestigious Designer of the Year Dinner will be co-hosted by Sergey Polonsky and Dmitry Lutsenko of MIRAX Group, the leading Russian developer.
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Work by the Estúdio Campana has been exhibited throughout the world and is included in the following permanent collections:
Art Institute of Chicago
Association Jacqueline Vodoz e Bruno Danese, Milan
Centre George Pompidou, Paris
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York
Design Museum, Hamburg
Don Edelman Foundation, Switzerland
Francisco Capelo Collection, Centro Cultural Belém, Portugal
Montréal Fine Arts Museum
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal
Museum of Design, Lausanne
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo
Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art
Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
The Manchester Museum, Oxford
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
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