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Every year, MAISON&OBJET spotlights the most outstanding
names on the international design and decor scene today. In
September 2016, British designer Ilse Crawford will receive the
Designer of the Year award and will have the opportunity to
showcase her work on a space entirely dedicated to her.
The Designers honoured this year by MAISON&OBJET are :
Rafael de Cárdenas for MAISON&OBJET AMERICAS, André Fu
for MAISON&OBJET ASIA, and Eugeni Quitlet for the January
edition of MAISON&OBJET PARIS.
Since 2015, MAISON&OBJET has choosen one Designer of the
Year for each show: two for MAISON&OBJET PARIS (January
and September), one for MAISON&OBJET ASIA and one for
MAISON&OBJET AMERICAS., for MAISON&OBJET PARIS, each
of these two designers must fit within the profile of each
of the Paris shows, that is, a more product design-oriented
profile in January and a designer more closely related to the
world of interior architecture or decor for September.
For MAISON&OBJET ASIA, the Designer selected will be
a renowned personality in the world of Asian creation
representing the incredible richness and diversity of this vast
area, which is becoming a major player in design creation and
innovation, architecture and interior architecture.
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In September 2016, MAISON&OBJET PARIS honours one of
the most successful interior designers in Britain. Ilse Crawford
is named Designer of the Year for the September 2016 fair.
She will be the very first Designer of the Year to handle the
scenography of the Designers’ Studio, in Hall 8.
Design as a frame for life
For MAISON&OBJET AMERICAS, the personality will be chosen
Ilse Crawford started her career as a journalist and was the
according to the same criteria as for MAISON&OBJET ASIA,
founding editor-in-chief of ELLE Decoration UK. After over a
with the overriding priority of providing an opening to both
decade in magazines, with a mission to put human needs and
Americas, an ambition that forms an integral part of the DNA
desires back at the centre of design, she founded her multi-
of MAISON&OBJET AMERICAS’s positioning.
disciplinary practice Studioilse in 2001.