Focus In and Color Compound collections designed by Suzanne Tick receive 2017 Good Design Awards
Luum Textiles announced that two of its new collections – Focus In and Color Compound – earned Good Design Awards in the annual international competition presented by The Chicago Athenaeum, together with The European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies.
“This year’s historic 67th Good Design program,” states Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, Museum President, The Chicago Athenaeum, “recognizes the work of thousands of designers and manufacturers worldwide who have successfully undertaken the design challenge to produce the best and most outstanding design products across the globe to our large and expanding global consumers.”
“This pair of Good Design Awards for Focus In and Color Compound confirms that Luum is providing clients with inspired textiles that are highly relevant for the aesthetic and performance attributes required by today’s interior spaces,” said Dave White, Vice President of Luum Textiles. “Suzanne Tick, Luum’s Creative Director, continues to design award-winning upholstery, panel and wallcovering applications with a common design language that work together holistically.”
The Color Compound collection was inspired by the late architect Luis Barragan’s emotional architecture, where color is an essential design element that affects the way a space feels. The simple geometry, expressive color and raw surfaces seen in Barragan’s buildings are characteristic of this season’s trend towards a more restful and reflective environment, and are highlighted in the new collection’s styles, including Refraction, Intone, Fundamentals and Essentials.
As technology continues to redefine the way we engage, think and feel about interior spaces, traditional modes of interaction in offices, schools and hotels are being transformed through new tools that enable rapid communication. Focus In addresses the importance of today’s adaptable products in multi-purpose workplace environments. The collection comprises seven fabrics including Outpress, Knurl, Amalgam, Navigate, Heather Felt, Technoplaid and Mica Shift.
About Good Design
Founded in Chicago in 1950, Good Design remains the world’s oldest and most recognized program for design excellence worldwide. Good Design covers new consumer products, graphics and packaging designed and manufactured in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America. For 2017, over 900 new products and graphic designs were selected from over 48 countries. Awarded corporations represent some of the world’s most visionary Fortune 500 companies. All awards are posted at: https://chi-athenaeum.org/ and http://www.europeanarch.eu/
Launched in 2013, Luum Textiles was founded on the belief that design is most successful when the creative process is paired with a clear performance intent. Working by hand at the fiber level, Luum is able to understand – and ultimately influence – how materials will perform in the built environment. The resulting textiles come together as integrated collections designed to deliver an integrated experience. Under the creative direction of Suzanne Tick, Luum is providing architects and designers with a complete interior solution. For more information, visit: www.luumtextiles.com