Winners of Editors’ Choice 2016 – Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair´s new award

Best Product
Product: Alto
Designer: Dirk WinkelProducer: Wästberg

Motivation: 'I am very happy to invite you to the launch of my latest work, the 'w164 Alto' for Wästberg, at the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2016’, says this young designer from Berlin on his web site.

Indeed we are also happy about Dirk Winkel’s original designs.

Again he creates a new lamp - the w164 Alto, not referring to the Finnish designer, but to the Italian word ‘Alto' meaning ‘high’. In other words; a new type of uplighter - for the company Wästberg, already in its 10 years existence.

The pole houses a sophisticated 10.000 lumen, multidirectional, LED technique, giving a very even and super-wide-angle light distribution. The top disc of the base is a large dimming wheel which also includes the switch.

Best Stand
Producer: Foscarini, stand B09:27
Designer: Pietro Ferruccio Laviani

Motivation: Designer Pietro Ferruccio Laviani created for Foscarini a hidden area, that somehow pulls the visitor from the chaos of the fair into a red cave. The intimate and calm space lets the visitor experience different perspective of lights and gives you a completely different experience at the fair.

Rising Star
Designer: BEY, Norway

Motivation: BEY presented a consequent collection of different objects - from lamps to stools to mirrors - which all play with the same topic: To irritate your view and make you look twice.

Maybe the kind of mysteriousness the two young women’s eclectic work lays in the fact that east meets west, meaning a young woman from Beijing teaming up with a one woman from west Sweden opening a studio in Bergen, Norway.

A statuette designed by Lisa Hilland and produced by Kullaro was given to each winner.

The 2016 Editors' Choice Jury consisted of three editors-in-chief: Marcus Fairs from Dezeen; Adeline Seidel from Stylepark and Walter Bettens from DAMn magazine.

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Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair is the world’s largest meeting place for Scandinavian furniture and lighting design. Domestic and international visitors will find the most comprehensive selection of Scandinavian furniture, office furnishings, design, textiles, lighting and other interior furnishings for both homes and public spaces. Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair runs in parallel with Stockholm Design Week. www.stockholmdesignweek.com