Jodie Padgett, with Jane Marks-Yewdall, won this year’s Design Guild Mark Jonathan Hindle Prize for outstanding design while Jones + Partners received three DGMs.
Now in its 19th year, DGM was established by The Furniture Makers’ Company to recognise the excellence of and raise the profile of British industrial design. Sponsored by Agua and Crofts & Assinder, it has grown from furniture to include interior design elements and lighting.
The ReSKU 2.0 fabric by Jodie Padgett (lead designer) and Jane Marks-Yewdall, and manufactured by Camira, was awarded the Jonathan Hindle Prize for outstanding design, winning the solid Corian trophy and £1,000.
Winning furniture designs were: Roxi chair by David Colwell for David Colwell Design; Mindflow chair by Charlie Fowler for TFH; Ringstead chair and footstool by Charlie Fowler for Another Country; Barricane chair by Magnus Long for Morgan; Highmoor large extending dining table by Benjamin Stanton for Ercol; Cosi laptop table by Pearson Lloyd for Teknion; Ten-pin side table by Louis Barrett for The Conran Shop; Ox stool/side table by Matthew Coules for TroubleStudio; Climb by Jones + Partners for Modus Furniture; Folding Surfaces by Jones + Partners for Howe; Mura sideboard by Tom Rawlings for William Hands and Oleander sideboard by Leonhard Pfeifer for Heal’s.
DGMs for interior design elements were awarded to Disorder of Stasis by Charlotte Raffo and Joel Weaver for The Monkey Puzzle Tree and ReSKU 2.0.
In lighting, a DGM went to Current by Jones + Partners for Bachmann Group; Light Mass^ by Yael Mar and Shay Alkalay for Raw-Edge Studio.
‘A broad range of entries are demonstrative of this unique accolade, where designers of all level of experience are united in the quality of work to achieve the gold standard for British design. Each recipient of a Design Guild Mark has the unique opportunity to have their creativity and craftsmanship celebrated on a national stage’ says Alex Crofts, DGM chairman.
‘The wonderful thing about the Design Guild Mark is having British designers and designs appraised and approved by such diverse and eminent judging panels. When these judges chose to elevate one exceptional design, from all the designs submitted, with the Jonathan Hindle Prize, this should be seen as an enormous honour and a source of immense pride to the winner,’ says Crofts.
