DGM award winners announced

The Furniture Makers’ Company announced the winners of the prestigious Design Guild Mark awards for 2016 last night at a packed ceremony at the Goldsmiths’ Centre in Clerkenwell.

Now in its ninth year, the Design Guild Mark Awards promote excellence and raise the profile of British design and innovation.

They recognise and reward designers working in Britain or British Designers working abroad. The award demands the highest standards in the design of furniture for volume production.

Nineteen designs were awarded the coveted mark:

DGM 144 – Loku Range      Designed by Shin Azumi for Case Furniture

DGM 145- The Flow Chair Designed by Tomoko Azumi for Ercol

DGM 146 – Pilot Chair for Knoll     Designed by Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby

DGM 147 – Column Bookcases      Designed by Samuel Chan for Channels

DGM 148 – Magnus Chair   Designed by Samuel Chan for Channels

DGM 149 – The Sebastian Cox Kitchen by deVOL   A design collaboration between the deVOL design team and Sebastian Cox

DGM 150 – The Ashworth Desk   Designed by Adam Daghorn for Conran, manufactured by Marks & Spencer

DGM 151 – Marino Chair and Sofa (pictured)   Designed by Dylan Freeth for Ercol

DGM 152 – Nuno Chair   Designed by Mark Gabbertas for Allermuir

DGM 153 – William Dining Chair   Designed by Mark Gabbertas for Gloster

DGM 154 – Eos Range       Designed by Matthew Hilton for Case Furniture

DGM 155 – Hardy Chair      Designed by David Irwin for Another Country

DGM 156 – The Planks Collection  Designed by Max Lamb for Benchmark

DGM 157 – Quiet Bench- hm 106    Designed by Magnus Long for Hitch Mylius

DGM 158 – hm221 Collection         Designed by Timothée Mion for Hitch Mylius

DGM 159 – Kyoto Bench System  Designed by Morgan Studio for Morgan

DGM 160 – UNNIA Chairs   Designed by Simon Pengelly for Inclass

DGM 161 – My Ami Range  Designed by Alexander White for Heals

DGM 162 – The Core Collection   Designed by Jo Wilton & Mirka Grohn for &New

Alexander Gifford, Chairman of the Design Guild Mark said: “This year the criteria for the Design Guild Mark were curbed to shift emphasis onto volume production and as a result the entries reflected the higher quality of applications we had hoped for. Once again, the entries were equally diverse, from contract to retail, from residential to hospitality and workplace, as were the applicants themselves. Chairing the judging process, for the second year, was a great honour, and watching the great minds in our industry critique the great output of British design was a real pleasure.”