Review of innovative designs. Archiproducts Design Awards 2022

The Archiproducts Design Awards or ADAs, first awarded in 2016, honor the world's best design: from furniture and interior design over kitchen and bathroom to innovations for the building envelope. We look back one more time and see which innovations won awards in 2022. New this year: the special entry for sustainability. You will see an inspiring selection on these pages! 

Sitting comfort with felt

Light and airy furniture design with a seat shell composed of two layers of natural felt. Although this chair does not contain polyurethane foam or a wooden structure, Taco offers all the softness and comfort of a padded chair. 

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Product: TACO by laCividina

Design: Alessandro Stabile

ADA: winner 2022, Furniture category - Special Mention Substainability

Recycled polystyrene 

This Terra pouf has a frameless core made of recycled polystyrene, thus betting on sustainability. The upholstery is available in the Water range - the sustainable fabric resulting from the collaboration with Dutch company BYBORRE - and in the new eco-fiber collection previously presented by Natuzzi.

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Product: Terro by Natuzzi

Design: Marcantonio

ADA: winner 2022, Furniture category - Special Mention Substainability

High fashion

Despite its rather traditional shape, this Azul sofa manages to evoke a real feeling of "high fashion. This feeling is obviously due to the hand-woven upholstery in blue velvet that invites you to touch it and welcomes you with softness. 

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Product: Azul by Turri

Design: Paola Navone

ADA: winner 2022, Furniture category

Architectural puzzle bank

This modular outdoor "landscape bench" includes six modules, finished in satin-finished stainless steel and okoumé wood, for a different arrangement every time. This solution is intended for the residential garden as well as for the outdoor area of an office or the lounge of a hotel.

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Product: Crest by Unopiù

Design: Stefano Boeri Interiors

ADA: winner 2022, Outdoor category

Unique lying system

The winners included some Belgian labels including Manutti with this sunbed that completes the Flex collection. This outdoor furniture manages to combine a pared-down design language with a unique lying system, illustrating how technical ingenuity and elegant design can go hand in hand.

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Product: Flex by Manutti

Design: Metrica

ADA: winner 2022, Outdoor category

Integrated lighting

Another home-grown product with international appeal: this Lux articulated screen from Harol. One hundred percent Belgian made-to-measure. During the day the screen creates shadow, after nightfall there is light through the integrated dimmable LED lighting. There are several options: indirect light in cabinet and front frame, direct light in the cabinet, direct light in arms or direct light in arms and cabinet.

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Product: Lux by Harol

ADA: winner 2022, Outdoor category

Individual design

Multiple awardwinner, including also an Interzum, iF and Good Design Award: the Hettich Avantech YOU drawer system with only 13 millimeters thick drawer side walls. This system scores particularly through its many design and shaping options, invisible technology and outstanding performance. For applications in the kitchen, bath or living room where individual design is an issue.

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Product: Avantech YOU from Hettich

ADA: winner 2022, Systems category, 

Components and Materials

Versatile lighting system

Plusminus is a versatile lighting
system that takes the concept of light rail to a new and higher level. Attach light points - with a choice of fixtures - wherever you wish to the conductive ribbon. This gives you a unique configuration every time.

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Product: Plusminus by Vibia

Design: Stefan Diez

ADA: winner 2022, lighting category

Classic reinvented

This freestanding Swing bath brings a contemporary interpretation of the metal tub of yesteryear. Crafted from pleasant to the touch Livingtec and featuring wooden legs that complete the design. The Swing collection also includes bathroom furniture and mirrors.

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Product: Swing from ex.t

Design: Studio Fabio Fantolino

ADA: winner 2022, category Bathroom

Modular bathroom

A deserved winner is this Abaco modular bathroom, including a toilet module with bidet function and a heated seat for optimal comfort. It is made of stainless steel, here in a bronze satin finish complemented by marble cladding and indirect LED lighting.

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Product: Abaco by Ceadesign

Design: Natalino Malasorti

ADA: winner 2022, Bathroom category - Special Mention Substainability

Twenty years later

The Boffi Case 5.0 kitchen, two decades after its initial launch and obviously much evolved, is back in the spotlight. Noteworthy: the cantilevered and free-hanging top that can now extend up to 180 centimeters and the Inside System Track integrated into the worktop for knives, cutting boards, spices and the hood, among other things. 

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Product: CASE 5.0 BECOMING by Boffi

Design: Piero Lissoni

ADA: winner 2022, Kitchen category - Special Mention  

Substainability

All-in-one

You write LHOV, but you read LOVE. We're talking about this innovation from Elica that combines cooktop, cooker hood and oven. Extra special: the extractor not only eliminates cooking odors from the hob and from the oven. This LHOV is expected in Belgium by the end of this year.     

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Product: LHOV from Elica

Design: Fabrizio Crisà

ADA: winner 2022, category Kitchen