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Compasso d'Oro is the name of an Industrial Design award originated in Italy in 1954 by the La Rinascente company from an original idea of Gio Ponti and Alberto Rosselli. From 1964 it has been hosted exclusively by Associazione per il Disegno Industriale (ADI). It is the first and most recognized award in its field. The prize aims to acknowledge and promote quality in the field of industrial designs Made in Italy and is awarded by ADI.
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History
The Castiglioni brothers contributed to establish the ADI and the Compasso d’Oro awards. Enzo Mari was president of the ADI from 1976 to 1979. It was the first award of its kind in Europe and soon took on an international dimension and relevance, multiplying the occasions on which the exhibitions of award-winning objects were held in Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan.
List of Compasso d'Oro Awards
Year Jury Entries ADI president Winners 1st 1954 Aldo Bassetti, Cesare Brustio, Gio Ponti, Alberto Rosselli, Marco Zanuso 5700 15 2nd 1955 Aldo Bassetti, Cesare Brustio, E. N. Rogers, Alberto Rosselli, Marco Zanuso 1300 12 3rd 1956 Aldo Bassetti, Cesare Brustio, Franco Albini, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Alberto Rosselli 1450 Alberto Rosselli (Birth of the ADI) 9 4th 1957 Aldo Bassetti, Cesare Brustio, Franco Albini, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Ignazio Gardella 1200 Giulio Castelli 5 5th 1959 Bruno Alfieri, Vico Magistretti, Giulio Minoletti, Augusto Morello, Giovanni Romano 1200 Livio Castiglioni 6 6th 1960 Ludovico Belgiojoso, Vico Magistretti, Augusto Magnaghi, Augusto Morello, Marco Zanuso 800 Franco Albini 10 7th 1962 Giulio Castelli, Franco Momigliano, Augusto Morello, Bruno Munari, Gian Battista Pininfarina Roberto Olivetti 9 8th 1964 Massimo Vignelli, Dante Giacosa, Vittorio Gregotti, Augusto Morello, Bruno Munari, Gino Valle Aldo Basetti 6 9th 1967 Aldo Basetti, Felice Dessi, Gillo Dorfles, Tomás Maldonado, Edoardo Vittoria Marco Zanuso 13 10th 1970 Francesco Mazzucca, Franco Albini, Jean Baudrillard, Achille Castiglioni, Federico Correa, Vittorio Gregotti, Roberto Guiducci, Albe Steiner Anna Castelli Ferrieri 10 11th 1979 Angelo Cortesi, Gillo Dorfles, Augusto Morello, Arthur Pulos, Yuri Soloviev 1167 Enzo Mari 39 12th 1981 François Barrè, Cesare De Seta, Martin Kelm, Ugo La Pietra, Pierluigi Spadolini Rodolfo Bonetto 16 13th 1984 Cino Boeri, Douglas Kelley, Antti Nurmesniemi, Giotto Stoppino, Bruno Zevi Giotto Stoppino 11 14th 1987 Angelo Cortesi, Rodolfo Bonetto, Marino Marini, Cara Mc Carty, Philippe Starck Angelo Cortesi 16 15th 1989 Pierliugi Molinari, Fredrik Wildhagen, Hans Wichmann, Cesare Stevan, Tomás Maldonado Pierlugi Molinari 12 16th 1991 Silvio Ceccato, Marcello Inghilesi, Victor Margolin, Pierlugi Molinari, Antti Nurmesniemi Angelo Cortesi 14 17th 1994 Dante Giacosa, Vittoriano Viganò, Giovanni Anceschi, Paola Antonelli, Uta Brandes, Jacob Gantenbein, Marja Heemskerk, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Marco Migliari, Gianemiglio Monti, Mario Trimarchi Augusto Morello 13 18th 1998 Achille Castiglioni, Giuseppe De Rita, Marianne Frandsen, Fritz Frenkler, Sadik Karamustafa, Tomás Maldonado, Marco Zanuso Augusto Morello 15 19th 2001 Marie-Laure Jousset, Filippo Alison, François Burkhardt, Omar Calabrese, Francisco Jarauta, Maurizio Morgantini, Erik Spiekermann Giancarlo Iliprandi 13 20th 2004 Tomas Maldonado, Fulya Erdemci, Robert Fitzpatrick, Yutaka Mino, Pietro Petraroia, Richard Sapper, Angela Schönberger, Tomàš Vlček Carlo Forcolini 16 Designers who have won a Compasso d'Oro prize
Designer Nationality Years Producer Object Bruno Munari Italy 1954 1955 1979 Robots, Zani & Zani, Pigoma Zizi, Abitacolo, Ice bucket "TMT" Kaj Franck Finland 1957 Career Emilio Ambasz Argentina 1991 Qualis Chairs Mario Bellini Italy 1962 1964 1970 1979 2001 Olivetti Divisumma 18 Philippe Starck France 2001 Kartell Joe Cesare Colombo Italy 1967 1970 Kartell Marco Zanuso Italy 1979 Vortice, Italy Ariante Fan Gino Colombini Italy 1955 Kartell Trashcan George Sowden UK 1991 Olivetti Fax OFX420 Konstantin Grcic Germany 2001 Flos Mayday Lamp Harri Koskinen Finland 2004 Muu chair Eero Aarnio Finland 2008 Magis Trioli children's chair Trivia
The award is given as a Compass, the one invented by Adalbert Goeringer in 1893 to measure the Golden Section.
See also
- Industrial Design
- List of notable industrial designers
References
- ADI homepage The official web page of the Associazione per il Disegno Industriale (Italian).
- DolceVita A web page dedicated to lifestyle. Contains an online design museum.
- San Pellegrino Article about the origin of the Compasso d'Oro prize.
- Fiell, Charlotte & Peter (2001). Industrial Design A-Z. London: Taschen.
Categories:- Industrial design awards
- Science and technology in Italy
- Italian design
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