September 2005

 

LAURENT-PERRIER DESIGN AWA

LAURENT-PERRIER DESIGN AWARD 2005

 

 

 

Laurent-Perrier Design Award 2005 -The "Sketch" sofa, from the winning range by Rock Galpin, (Eureka 2005/Leigh Simpson

       

 

 

 

Rock Galpin’s upholstered furniture range has won the Laurent-Perrier Design Award 2005.  The announcement was made on Monday 26 September at the opening of Design Nations’ Eureka, a project linking designers to British retailers and manufacturers and promoting talent and quality in UK design.

Rock has designed the Sketch modular sofa system, a range of dining room chairs and an Easy club/arm chair.  It will now be going into production for sale in Designers Guild stores. Rock Galpin Studio produces innovative furniture, product designs and interior projects for a range of clients.

Educated at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London born designer Rock previously worked as an in-house interior product and furniture designer developing new product ranges and hotel furniture with interior designers such as Ezra Attia Associates, designing some of their best selling product ranges.

Discussing Rock Galpin’s winning design, David Hesketh MW, Managing Director of Laurent-Perrier UK, commented “Laurent-Perrier is delighted to strengthen its association with design through the Eureka project, supporting and promoting such British design talent. As the winning design, Rock’s contemporary sofa will I’m sure be a success for Designers Guild. Design Nation has done a fantastic job in gathering such a wide range of retailers to ensure the availability of this high quality collection.”

Lucia van der Post, The Times, and judge for this Laurent-Perrier Design Award 2005 commented, “We chose Rock’s design because it is so wonderfully resolved, so very well thought out, and it has some serious innovation in the construction of the foam inside. It is also extremely elegant to look at and very well priced.”

The judging panel comprised Peta Levi MBE, David Hesketh MW, Robin Levien (product designer), Shin Azumi (furniture and product designer), Lucia van der Post (The Times) and Fiona Hayes (House & Garden).

Rock receives a cheque for £2,000, a Jeroboam of Laurent-Perrier Brut Non-Vintage Champagne and candlesticks designed for Laurent-Perrier by Hugo Eccles, winner of the 2002 Laurent-Perrier Design Challenge.

In 2004, the Laurent-Perrier Design Award went to Katy Holford for The Opal Collection of dressing table accessories, commissioned by Crabtree & Evelyn and now available in stores nation-wide.  As Katy explains, winning the award has boosted her design career, “I was extremely honoured to win the Laurent-Perrier Design Award 2004 for The Opal Collection for Crabtree & Evelyn. It has brought my designs considerable attention and the high profile publicity from the award has been extremely valuable.”

The Eureka exhibition also includes six products commissioned in 2004 by Crabtree & Evelyn, Fired Earth Interiors, Heal’s and The Conran Shop.  It can be viewed from 21 September to 2 October, 11am to 6pm daily at the.gallery@oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf, South Bank, London SE1.

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For further information on the Laurent-Perrier Design Award

please contact Henrieta Sitwell, Nina Plowman or Jen Eveleigh ar Wild Card,

Tel: 020 7355 0655 E: deck@wildcard.co.uk

 

For more information on Eureka 2005 please contact Antonia Methuen at Magnificent

Tel : 020 7727 3999 or E : info@magnificentpr.com

 

                                  

 

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