Super spread: welcome to the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2016 dinner party

Design / 24 Mar 2016 / By Simon Mills

Wallpaper* partnered with Panerai to host an intimate dinner to celebrate our annual, hotly contested honour roll of true design excellence. Pictured: the noodle starter in full swing, served using Naoto Fukasawa's shortlisted kettles for Muji

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec won two prestigious Judges' Awards, including the Designers of the Year and Best Domestic Design gongs. The Breton brothers are pictured here with Panerai's Philippe De Saint Lager and Wallpaper* Editor-in-Chief Tony Chambers

Panerai's timeless watches were also on display that night, sat atop Living Divani's 'Inari' console table

Champagne and clever canapes preceeded a delicious dinner, prepared on-site by I'm a Kombo's Bo Lindegaard, pictured

Inspired by this year's Best Cut winners, the menu was a carnivorous feast full of offbeat eats, such as these marrow bones

The Best Cuts theme extended to the plate decor, via clever stencils and a spice emulsion

From left: architect and United Nude founder (and Best Wedge champion) Rem D Koolhaas with Anne Urbauer (Akris Global communication consultant), Wallpaper* creative director Sarah Douglas, and Best Alliance winner, Akris creative director Albert Kriemler

Akris' S/S16 womenswear collection, inspired by the work of Sou Fujimoto, was named Best Alliance and featured on the cover of the Design Awards issue. Pictured: Akris creative director Albert Kriemler

Hermès UK managing director, Bertrand Michaud

Bouroullec designs were in abundance, with seats ('Officina' chairs for Magis), entertainment (the 'Serif' TV for Samsung) and plates ('Ovale' crockery for Alessi) all devised by the duo

Fondazione Prada was dubbed the Best New Public Building. Pictured: Astrid Welter, Fondazione Prada's head of programmes

Panerai's Philippe De Saint Lager with Best Maximalist Dining designer Hervé van der Straeten

The David Adjaye-designed home of artist Sue Webster hosted the exclusive event

David Chipperfield, pictured, won the Best Divine Inspiration accolade thanks to his austere 'Langley' stool and ‘Fayland’ table for e15

Copenhagen's increasingly extroverted and adventurous vibe marked the Danish capital out this year as our Best City. Pictured: Claus Grube, Danish Ambassador to the UK

Best Delivery champions Flowerbx provided buds and blooms, each placed in a range of designer vases, including examples by Georg Jensen, Michael Anastassiades, Linck Keramik and Lingby

The heavenly illuminations of Lee Broom, pictured, won him the Best Divine Inspiration award

Best Big Chill winner, British designer Paul Cocksedge

The delightful silverware of Inga Sempé, for Alessi – our Best Cutlery winner – alongside the evening's playful menu. (Note sweet and savoury interpretations of the same ingredients for starters and dessert)

Best Details champion, Droog's Renny Ramakers, whose 'Construct Me!' hardware combines functional screws and chirpy hinges

Together with designer Ilse Crawford, Sarah Hollywood (pictured) was behind Ikea's 'Sinnerlig' collection, winner of our Best Basics award

The wine, provided by Raimón Bilbao Vinos y Viñedos, was served up in Saint-Louis' elegant 'Twist 1586' glasses – a Best Wine & Design medalist

The Nendo-designed trophies, awarded to the people, places and things that have rocked our world over the last year

As the creator of beautiful timepieces with a long-standing association with design and architecture, Panerai was Wallpaper’s ideal partner for our annual Design Awards celebration event.

Notable guests – including Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec (our Designers of the Year), David Chipperfield, Albert Kriemler and Ilse Crawford – were invited to an intimate dinner hosted by Wallpaper* Editor-in-Chief Tony Chambers and Panerai’s Philippe De Saint Lager in the spectacular home of artist Sue Webster. Designed by Design Awards judge David Adjaye, the converted textile factory in the heart of London’s Shoreditch offered guests spectacular city views from the studio's wraparound balcony, as they enjoyed champagne and 'clever' canapés prepared by chef Bo Lindegaard of the Copenhagen-based I’m a Kombo catering specialists.

Once the party was seated (on Bouroullec-designed 'Officina' chairs for Magis, no less) Lindegaard presented elegantly carnivorous dishes inspired by the Best Cuts category from our Design Awards issue on yet another Bouroullec design – Alessi 'Ovale' crockery, which was itself decorated with stencilled-on spice-emulsions. Inga Sempé's award-winning 'Collo-Alto' cutlery and Spanish vineyard Ramón Bilbao Vinos y Viñedos' delicious Riojas, poured into Saint-Louis 'Twist 1586' glasses, completed the tablescape.

Long before the prize winners and guests arrived, Wallpaper’s Composed team furnished Webster's home with the help of some of our favourite marques: 'Inari' console tables by Living Divani, Samsung’s award-winning 'Serif' TV (also by Designers of the Year, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec) and Retegui’s folding marble-topped ‘Bistro’ tables. Vases by Georg Jensen, Michael Anastassiades and Lingby among others, were filled with arrangements by Best Delivery winners Flowerbx, who donated the still-fresh blooms to charity after the event.

After being wined and dined, guests went home with a gift bag showcasing the work of a plethora of other winners and nominees from the 2016 Design Awards portfolio including Punkt’s 'MP01' Jasper Morrison-designed mobile phone, a Misoka toothbrush, Susanne Kaufmann’s hair elixir and Alfredo Häberli's 'Alfredo' vase for Georg Jensen. Copenhagen, our city of the year, was represented with a newly updated Wallpaper* City Guide, naturally.

Information: Photography: Jamie McGregor Smith

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