Reason: The Judges were unanimous in awarding the First Prize to the STICH chair, designed by Sami KALLIO from Sweden, for the following reasons:
The designer achieves an extremely innovative image for the chair in wood, by the adoption of triangular wooden modules: from the perception of rigidity usually associated with this type of chair, it actually becomes a very contemporary multiform image. A coloured cord connects the modules and is not only a source of remarkable expressive impact, but enables the backrest to be lowered forming a sort of small table with a pocket. Thus functional results are combined with significant research on decoration.
