Green Furniture Concept

DEADLINE: November 1, 2015

Green Furniture Award – the design competition for Outstanding Sustainable Design!

Outstanding Sustainable Design incorporates aspects as the choice and sourcing of material, production methods, efficient use of materials, ways of disassembling and recycling, social responsibility, etc. Outstanding Sustainable Design is also meaning a piece of furniture to keep and treasure – with a story to tell, that ages in a nice way, that can last beyond current trends, and have the potential of becoming a classic.

Background

In 2008 the designer Johan Berhin decided to make a difference in the world and forge ahead in the field of eco design. He initiated a global competition, the Green Furniture Award, to find the best eco design furniture ideas to highlight these and have them produced.

The competition has become a world leader in its genre and Green Furniture Concept has become the collection of the winners – expressive furniture with the ambition to become green modern classics.

The Jury has a mix from authorities in sustainable design and the furniture industry. Green Furniture Concept has put six of the contributions from 2009 to 2014 into production:

Fiction bookshelf (2009), Leaf Lamp (2010), BlockShelf (2010), Sheep bench (2010), T-shirt Chair (2011), and Jar Lamp (2012), and two of them has developed into product series currently sold by Green Furniture Concept.

The Green Furniture Award 2016 consists of the following prizes:

• A General First Prize of 3500 Euro 
• A Cappellini Prize of 3500 Euro 
• A Green Furniture Sweden Prize of 3500 Euro

The Jury has the right to redistribute the prizes or postpone a prize to a following year (the Award sum added to the next year’s Award) if no contributions live up to the Jury’s expectation of winners. 2009, 2010,2012 and 2014 one or two additional Honorable Mentions were also awarded. In 2011 the same contribution was awarded 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize and four Honorable Mentions were awarded. The 2013 Award was added to the 2014 Award where 5 winners shared a doubled prize sum of in total 200 000 SEK. Same with the 2015 Award that is making a double prize sum for the 2016 Award.

The Official Award Ceremony has been held at the Stockholm Furniture Fair in the beginning of February each year. In 2016 we plan to present the finalists both at Stockholm Furniture Fair and at the Milano Design Week in cooperation with Cappellini, just like in 2014.

Rules and conditions

Any design that is not in production may participate. Green Furniture Concept have the intention to produce one or more of the winning contributions – our collection is in large becoming a Green winner’s collection. Also Cappellini are in the Award to find new sustainable designs to produce.

The winners of the award shall have created products with Outstanding Sustainable Design. The furniture should be possible to produce in an effective way and with reasonable investments.

The participants shall document their contributions with:

• Presentation sketches
• Description of function and usage
• Description of material, its origin and environmental benefits
• Specification of production methods or processes
• Description of recycling procedures
• Construction drawings showing main measurements and assembly principle
• All pages marked with Project Name (not with your name in order to keep anonymity)
• All documentation should be in PDF format. Contributions sent by ordinary post (not e-mail) will not be in consideration.
• Maximum total file size: 10 MB.

Green Furniture Concept’s rights and commitments 

Green Furniture Concept have an exclusive option to conclude a royalty agreement with the award winners (first, second and third prize) implying the right to produce and market the winning contribution (or find another suitable producer for the product and license it further). In the case that Green Furniture Concept do not choose to conclude a royalty agreement for a winning contribution the rights for this contribution are fully returned to the designer. A copy of the agreement is availableas a pdf file here. Any applicable taxes to be paid by the winners.

Disclaimer

Participants are responsible to investigate that their respective contributions do not infringe on any third party rights (meaning ‘check that the design does not already exist in a similar form, for example by browsing the specific category on www.architonic.com and leave their guarantee, to their knowledge, hereof.

The decisions of the Jury cannot be appealed.

Source: Green Furniture

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