Dutch Design Award Interior Design - October 2007
Maurice Mentjens’ design for the meeting and reception room at the DSM head office has won the Dutch Design Award 2007 in the category interior design.
The other nominees were: Kossmann & de Jong with their design for the visitors centre ‘Veluwezoom’ and Frank Tjepkema with the new reception area for ROC economics.
Maurice Mentjes has won the Dutch design award for the third time, this time with his design for the meeting and reception room at the DSM head office in Heerlen. Last year Maurice Mentjens won the award with his design of restaurant Witloof (Maastricht, Netherlands), and in 2005 for his design of bag shop Stash (Maastricht). He’s delighted to have won this prestigious award three years running.
View the project here.
The Great Indoors Award
Maurice Mentjens has been nominated for the Great Indoors award in the category ‘Interior design firm of the year’. Other nominees in this category are: Wonderwall (Tokyo), Concrete (Amsterdam) and Neri & Hu (Shanghai). This is an important international award in the field of interior design with awards in 5 categories. 275 entries were received this year. The winners will be revealed in November at the award ceremony which this year takes place in Maastricht.
Other names also nominated for awards include: Zaha Hadid, Thomas Heatherwick, Klein Dytham, Jürgen Mayer H., Richard Hutten en Clive Wilkinson.
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View the prizewinning design for the DSM head office and the design for the new Sirius shop in Prague online.
Stash has won the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany - February 2007
Stash has won the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany on the 9th of February 2007 in Frankfurt.
Stash is a handbag shop in Maastricht and in 2005 it earned me the Dutch Design Award. The Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany is the most important Design Award in Germany, it’s ‘The Prize of
Prizes’.
All nominees have already won a national or international prize with their design, hence the official title, ‘The Prize of Prizes’. It is not possible to apply for this contest. Instead you are nominated by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. This year 25 prize winners, from different disciplines of design, where selected from 940 nominees.
The competition for the Prizes of Prizes
The Design Award is the official recognition of excellence in design offered by the Federal Republic of Germany. It is the central thrust in the campaign of the Federal German Ministry of Economics and Technology to promote good design.
The Prize of Prizes
Companies cannot enter for the Design Award; instead, they are nominated by the Ministries and Senators for Trade & Industry of the German States or by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. It is a precondition for this, however, that a product has already been awarded a national or international prize. No other Design Award sets its entrants such a strict criterion. Because of this the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany is called the “prize of prizes” by many opinion leaders in the world of design.
Other winning designers are a.o. :
UN Studio (Ben van Berkel) : Circle Furniture
Konstantin Grcic : Miura Barstool
BMW Designgroup : BMW Cruising Bike
Matteo Thun : Non-stick aluminium cookware
Phoenix Design : Loewe Individual 32 LCD TV
Adidas Design-Department : +F50 Tunit Football shoe
Dutch Design Award Interior Design - October 2006
Restaurant Witloof received the Dutch Design Award 2006 in the category interior design.
Last year the handbag shop Stash won the Dutch design award.
Of course it’s fantastic to win this prestigious prize two times in a row.
The other nominees were : Frank Tjepkema with his design for restaurant Fabbrica in Rotterdam and Jeanne Dekkers with her educational institution for Care and Welfare, OZW in Amsterdam.
The jury was unanimous: Maurice Mentjens Design’s entry was by far the best in this category. Familiar elements such as the chandelier, wooden furniture and ceramic tiles are counterposed, and in this way the very best is made of them. The restaurant forms a rich composition that accommodates both modernity and tradition. It is also at once both austere and decorative. The feel for drama is tangible everywhere. Not one, but an ensemble of three interiors that complement each other effortlessly. View the project here.
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The design award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2007
Also Stash was nominated for the second time, now for the prestigious German design award 2007. This is the highest German accreditation. It is ‘the prize of prizes’ because all 940 nominees have already won a national or international prize.
Bob magazine korea
In November the Korean magazine Bob will appear with an in depth article of 36 to 42 pages. Bob magazine is a very fine international magazine about design and architecture.
DSM board of directors room
I have been commissioned to design the board of directors room for DSM. Three designers where invited by Catharien Romijn to make a pitch for the space. Eventually my design was chosen. The other designers where: Ted Noten and Jurgen Bey. Eventually Jurgen didn’t compete.
Dutch Design Award Retail Design - October 2005
The interior design for Stash has won the Dutch Design Award 2005 in the category Retail Design.
This year there were more than 700 submissions and 164 entries chosen for the Design Selection, 51 nominations and 17 prizes awarded by 63 expert jury members. Website Dutch Design Awards
The nominations were: Storeage with a retail design for a T-Mobile shop - Marcel Wanders with the Bisazza stand for the Salone del Mobile Milan 2005 - Maurice Mentjens with Stash
The Jury Report :
The design distinguishes itself by breaking the mould of the traditional design for a bag shop. The layout clearly creates added value for the clients and their customers. The way in which the innovative display method with the magnets plays a central role is original and is the kind of idea that we would like to have thought of ourselves.
see the project project here