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LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL

13-21 SEPTEMBER 2014

THE LONDON DESIGN MEDAL SUPPORTED BY PANERAI

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE WINNERS OF THE 2014 PANERAI LONDON DESIGN MEDAL, COUTTS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT MEDAL, PERRIER-JOUËT DESIGN ENTREPRENEUR MEDAL AND THE SWAROVSKI EMERGING TALENT MEDAL

Brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec were announced as the winners of this year's prestigious Panerai London Design Medal. Other designers to receive awards this year included Richard Rogers, renowned architect, who was awarded the Coutts Lifetime Achievement Medal, Nicolas Roope, founder of Poke, the website design agency, was awarded the Perrier-Jouet Design Entrepreneur Medal and Roland Lamb, designer of the award-winning Seaboard – a new advance in music production – was awarded the Swarovski Emerging Talent Medal.

The winners of all four awards were presented with their medals at The London Design Medal Dinner held at The Leadenhall Building (designed by Rogers, Stirk, Harbour + Partners) on the evening of 16 September 2014.

RONAN AND ERWAN BOUROULLEC- WINNER OF THE PANERAI LONDON DESIGN MEDAL

This medal is the highest accolade bestowed upon an individual or in this case, individuals, who have distinguished themselves within the industry and demonstrated consistent design excellence over a number of years.

Ronan (born 1971) and Erwan Bouroullec (born 1976) are brothers and designers based in Paris. They began working together fifteen years ago having completed their studies at the École supérieure des Arts décoratifs in Paris and École nationale supérieure des Arts in Cergy.

In 1997, they were spotted by Cappellini, giving them their first industrial design projects. They began working with the Galerie kreo in 2000 and had their first solo show there in 2001. Issey Miyake then hired them to design the boutique to house his new collection 'A-Poc'. They worked on a new office system called 'Joyn' for Vitra and have also worked with Alessi, Axor Hansgrohe, Cappellini, Established & Sons, Flos, Glas Italia, Hay, Kvadrat, Kartell, Ligne Roset, Magis, Mattiazzi, Mutina and Nani Marquina.

From designing spaces to furniture to accessories, taking on architectural projects to designing textile wall systems or comprehensive collections, the designers maintain experimental activity with Gallery Kreo.

Examples of their designs have been included in the permanent collection at The Musée National d'Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Design Museum in London, and the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

The Bouroullecs were responsible for one of the London Design Festival's most successful landmark projects, Textile Field, a remarkable platform made from a variety of panels using Kvadrat material, which was installed in the Raphael Gallery at the V&A in 2011.

RICHARD ROGERS - WINNER OF THE COUTTS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT MEDAL

The Coutts Lifetime Achievement Medal honours an individual who has made significant and fundamental contributions to the design industry over their career.

Richard Rogers is one of the UK's most illustrious architects. He was best known for his work on the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Lloyd's building and Millennium Dome, the Senedd in Cardiff, and the European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg. His most recent building is the magnificent Leadenhall Building – where the London Design Festival Awards Dinner will take place.

2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, the recipient of the RIBA Gold Medal in 1985 and winner of the 1999 Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal. He is also winner of the 2000 Praemium Imperiale Prize for Architecture, the 2006 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (La Biennale di Venezia) and the 2007 Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal. Richard Rogers was awarded the Légion d'Honneur in 1986, knighted in 1991 and made a life peer in 1996. Most recently, in 2008 he was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour.

In 1995, he was the first architect ever invited to give the BBC Reith Lectures – a series entitled 'Cities for a Small Planet' – and in 1998 was appointed by the Deputy Prime Minister to chair the UK Government's Urban Task Force on the state of our cities. He was Chief Advisor on Architecture and Urbanism to the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone and has played an advisory role on design to the current Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. He has also been an Advisor to the Mayor of Barcelona's Urban Strategies Council.

Richard Rogers has served as Chairman of the Tate Gallery and Deputy Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain. He is currently an Honorary Trustee of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Trustee of Doctors of the World UK and President of The National Communities Resource Centre.

NICOLAS ROOPE - WINNER OF THE PERRIER-JOUËT DESIGN ENTREPRENEUR MEDAL

This medal celebrates entrepreneurship in all its forms, both locally and internationally. It honours an individual who has built one or more businesses where design lies at the core of its development and success.

Nicolas founded Antirom, Poke, Hulger, Plumen, makers of the low energy lightbulb, and The Lovie Awards, all companies of note which have been influential and innovative in their respective fields.

He was appointed member of the Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences in 2006. He co-chairs Internet Week Europe, an annual, open source festival that launched in London in November 2010 and is also the jury chair of The Lovie Awards, the pan-European award for outstanding achievement in the digital world.

In 2004 Nicolas founded Hulger, a technology company which produced the Plumen 001 an energy-saving light bulb. Plumen 001 was the overall winner of the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2011 prize and was also recognised by a D&AD black pencil. The light has been included in the MoMA, V&A and Cooper-Hewitt permanent design collections.

He was included in the 2011 Adage Creative 50 and UK Wired 100 in 2011 and in 2012 was inducted into the first twenty figures of the inaugural BIMA Hall Of Fame. He also sits in the UK Superbrands Council.

Nicolas joined the Tech City Advisory board to the UK Government in 2012, attending regular meetings at Number 10 Downing Street. He jointly founded BL-NK, a multidisciplinary event space in Hackney and is board member of the Design Special Interest Group to the Technology Strategy Board of the UK Government.

ROLAND LAMB - WINNER OF THE SWAROVSKI EMERGING TALENT MEDAL

This medal recognises an individual who has made an impact on the design scene within five years of graduation.

Roland Lamb is a designer and entrepreneur. At eighteen he moved to a monastery in Japan to practice Zen Buddhism, and then traveled extensively, working as a visual artist and jazz musician. A passion for cross-cultural thought brought him to Harvard, where he concentrated on Classical Chinese and Sanskrit philosophy, before completing an MA in Design Products and a PhD in Design Products at the Royal College of Art.

Roland is the founder and CEO of ROLI, a technology start-up, and inventor of the patent-pending Seaboard GRAND—a musical instrument that re-imagines the keyboard as a sensitive, soft three-dimensional surface that enables unprecedented intuitive manipulation of the fundamental characteristics of sound.

ABOUT THE LONDON DESIGN MEDAL

A panel of distinguished experts was tasked with choosing this year's winner, each member nominating a possible recipient before collectively debating a winner. The panel of 15 judges this year included: Alexander Payne (Worldwide Director, Design at Phillips), Martin Roth (Director of V&A), Paul Thompson (Rector, Royal College of Art) and Sheridan Coakley (Founder, SCP)

Previous winners of the London Design Medal have included: Peter Savile, El Ultimo Grito, Marc Newson, Sir Paul Smith, Dame Zaha Hadid, Thomas Heatherwick and Ron Arad. In 2012 the London Design Festival presented the first Lifetime Achievement Award to Sir Terence Conran who said it had inspired him to "keep working and not give in to retirement, just yet". Previous winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award include Vida Sassoon and Dieter Rams.

Ben Evans, Director of the London Design Festival said, "While there is no shortage of design awards, we took the Nobel Prize route – there's no shortlist, just a winner, so there are no losers either. The Design Medal Dinner and Awards event brings together the leading figures of design in London. It is an important moment in the year when talents - new and established - are formally recognised and celebrated for their significant contributions to design. The Medal also highlights the pioneering spirit that is so evident in London."

Officine Panerai said, "Partnering with a pivotal design event like the London Design Festival gives Panerai the opportunity to celebrate and honour one of our core principles – exclusive design. The art of design, whether used to create watches or assemble infrastructure, exemplifies innovation, intricate detailing and fine craftsmanship, epitomising what Panerai is all about. It is an honour to be able to put our name to an award that recognizes consistent and admirable contribution to, as well as excellence within, this industry."

The awards dinner was held at the Leadenhall Building on 16 September and the results were made available to media, earlier that day.

The Medal itself is designed by jewellery designer Hannah Martin and represents the once ubiquitous London bird, the Cockney Sparrow in flight.

THE DESIGN MEDAL DINNER WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE LEADENHALL BUILDING ON 16 SEPTEMBER 2014

The Leadenhall Building is a unique 610,000 sq. ft. building located in the centre of the City of London. Its distinctive design provides the ultimate in flexible accommodation, and the scale of the seven storey high landscaped galleria at ground level is unprecedented in London. Designed by leading architects, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, the building is recognised as a great piece of contextual architecture and a genuine new icon for London.

The Leadenhall Building is a joint venture by British Land, one of Europe's largest Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), and Oxford Properties, the global investor, developer and manager of real estate.

HEADLINE SUPPORTER

OFFICINE PANERAI

OFFICINE PANERAI'S WATCHES ARE A NATURAL BLEND OF ITALIAN DESIGN, EXPERT SWISS TECHNOLOGY AND PASSION FOR THE SEA.

Founded in Florence in 1860 as a workshop, shop and school of watch-making, for many decades Officine Panerai supplied the Italian Navy in general, and its specialist diving corps in particular, with precision instruments. The designs developed by Panerai in that time, including the Luminor and Radiomir, were covered by the Military Secrets Act for many years and were launched on the international market only after the brand was acquired by the Richemont Group in 1997. Today Officine Panerai develops and crafts its movements and watches at its Neuchâtel manufacture. Technical excellence and exclusive design are the core principals of Officine Panerai watches due to seamless melding of Italian design flair and history with Swiss horological expertise.

Panerai watches are sold across the world through an exclusive network of distributors and Panerai boutiques.

CATEGORY SUPPORTER

COUTTS

Coutts is a private bank and a wealth manager with three centuries of experience, providing customised solutions for its clients. These include investment, trust and tax services. Headquartered in London, Coutts is the Wealth division of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, connecting with clients from over 40 offices in key financial centres in the UK, Switzerland, the Middle East and Asia.

Coutts has a long history of championing the arts and design excellence, and has looked after many designers and inventors for several decades. Since the turn of the century, Coutts has also started to establish deeper links into the world of contemporary design talent, and today continues to celebrate and support British design excellence here and around the world in order to aid growth and foster future talent.

CATEGORY SUPPORTER

SWAROVSKI

Swarovski delivers a diverse portfolio of unmatched quality, craftsmanship, and creativity that goes beyond the manufacturing of crystal. Founded in 1895 in Austria, Swarovski designs, manufactures, and markets high-quality crystals, genuine gemstones and created stones, and finished products such as jewelry, accessories, and lighting. In addition, Swarovski Crystal Worlds was established as a unique venue dedicated to showcasing artistic interpretations of crystal. Swarovski Entertainment collaborates with established industry partners and exceptional talent to produce international feature films, while the Swarovski Foundation supports creativity and culture, promotes wellbeing, and conserves natural resources. Now run by the fifth generation of family members, Swarovski Crystal Business has a global reach with approximately 2,480 stores in around 170 countries, more than 24,000 employees, and revenue of about 2.33 billion euros in 2013. Together with its sister companies Swarovski Optik (optical devices) and Tyrolit (abrasives), Swarovski Crystal Business forms the Swarovski Group. In 2013, the Group generated revenue of about 3.02 billion euros and employed more than 30,000 people.

CATEGORY SUPPORTER

PERRIER-JOUËT

The champagne house Perrier-Jouët was founded in 1811 and crafts elegant, floral wines of rare finesse with a Chardonnay hallmark. Benefiting from exceptional vineyards, Perrier-Jouët is known for the finesse of its wines, the last two centuries have seen only seven Cellar Masters preserving the secrets of a unique style.

Since its creation by Pierre-Nicolas Perrier and his wife Adèle Jouët the House has always favoured an approach combining skilled craftsmanship with a sense of artistry. In 1902, Emile Gallé, one of Art Nouveau's most celebrated artists, designed a swirl of anemones wreathed in gold for the Perrier-Jouët bottle. Since then, Perrier-Jouët has continued to celebrate the marriage of arts and crafts, calling on renowned artists such as Daniel Arsham, Makoto Azuma and Tord Boontje, to creating unique works, sublime objects and artistic installations, that are a fitting showcase for the close relationship between the House and Art Nouveau.

The spiritual home of the House, the Perrier-Jouët Maison Belle Epoque, is a place in which enchantment reigns, with over 200 works and unique pieces by the greatest names in Art Nouveau, from Majorelle and Guimard to Lalique and Gallé. It is one of the largest private collections of the Art Nouveau movement.