Antalis Interior Design Award
As Europe’s premiere supplier of paper, packaging and visual communication products, the Antalis Group is hardwired to the design and creative industries. A multi-specialist paper merchant, Antalis’ vast range of products provides designers and makers with not just paper stock, but also the creative power to influence and captivate audiences, empower ideas and concepts, and help push the boundaries for decorating and personalising spaces. With the interior design industry now an increasingly important part of its business, Antalis teamed up with Wallpaper* to launch a special competition, the Antalis Interior Design Award. Open to architects, interior designers and printers, the international competition offered a unique opportunity to shine a light on multi-disciplinary portfolios and a new generation of burgeoning design talent. antalisinteriordesignaward.com
The Winners
Following a global call out and over three hundred entries, the competitors’ projects, which had to feature at least one product from Antalis’ Coala catalogue, were pored over by a jury that included scenographer François Confino and Wallpaper* Bespoke art director Aneel Kalsi. Here are the winners, who reimagined everything from alpine chalets to shipping containers.
Home: Christophe Koziel, France
Christophe Koziel’s Parisian studio specialises in trompe-l’oeil wallpaper and home accessory collections. His hyperrealistic ‘Tin Tile’ range features photographs of antique US ceiling tiles transposed onto wallpapers. koziel.fr
3D 1st Prize: Diana Chivu, Romania
Inspired by the classic alpine chalet, interior designer Diana Chivu added a touch of futurism to the aesthetic to create a lobby space for an urban hotel. ‘I completed the look using Antalis Coala Lam Sand floor products,’ explains Chivu. dianachivu.ro
Public Prize: Lachezar Ivanov. Bulgaria
‘New printing techniques mean that customers can choose how each detail of their home will look,’ says J-Point’s Lachezar Ivanov, whose Custom Home project envisages printing on glass or wood. ‘With partners like Antalis, we have no limitations.’ j-point.net
Hospitality: Pedro Bastos, Portugal
Pedro Bastos and his team at Kromaprint, Cascais, presented judges with a pescatarian theme, with large-scale images of various fish created for a commission to decorate the bedrooms of a Mayan Riviera hotel in Mexico. kromaprint.pt
Restaurant: Jacek Żmuda, Poland
Jacek Żmuda’s Meblomex contract furniture company used Coala Backlit Textile and Coala Canvas to update the AC Hotel Wroclaw’s Fuego restaurant. ‘We created a welcoming look using this media that imitates wood, quartz and slate,’ says Żmuda. meblomex.com.pl
Office: John Hardaker, UK
Challenged with disguising a shipping container in Cornwall, John Hardaker’s Graphicomm company wrapped the 6m-long unit with a series of images of an adjacent wooded valley, printed on Antalis’ Coala 2D vinyl and matt laminate. graphicomm.co.uk
Retail: Jörg Stein, Germany
Bonn-based Comexpo had to think big for its competition project. Employing UV printing on foam boards and Coala adhesive, owner Jörg Stein oversaw the construction of a 13m x 2.5m rendering of a mountain landscape for a clothing retailer’s window. comexpo.de
Public Buildings: Dennis Laustsen, Denmark
When asked by a museum in Ulfborg to develop a new way of visualising seafaring adventures for its visitors, Dennis Laustsen and his team at Aarhus print house Damgaard-Jensen took a dynamic approach using Antalis’ Coala wallpapers. dgj.dk
3D 2nd Prize: Charlotte Liénard, Belgium
The Violine Office concept features two purple and bordeaux printed walls, custom-made with Antalis products. ‘These colours have brain-boosting qualities, so are ideal for the workplace,’ says Belgian interior designer Charlotte Liénard. charlottelienard.com
The Judges
All creations will be submitted to an international jury presided over by world-renowned scenographer François Confino and Wallpaper* Bespoke art director Aneel Kalsi, alongside other names from the international design arena.
François Confino (Jury president)
Architect, scenographer and museograoher, Confino Workshop
Damien Perrot
International design director, AccorHotels
Karin Schmitz
Business development director, Peclers
Benedicte Duhalde
Editor-in-chief, Intramuros magazine
Jon Sherman
Founder and creative director, Flavor Paper
Aneel Kalsi
Art director, Wallpaper* Bespoke
Agnès Lafarge
Marketing manager visual communication, Antalis International HQ
Headline Four
Text blocks should be constructed such that they 'honor and reveal' the relationships between the various elements - headings, subheadings, quotes, asides and footnotes. Robert Bringhurst recommends a character count per line of approximately 66 letters for optimum legibility, but accepts that anything between 45 and 75 is satisfactory.
Headline Four
Text blocks should be constructed such that they 'honor and reveal' the relationships between the various elements - headings, subheadings, quotes, asides and footnotes. Robert Bringhurst recommends a character count per line of approximately 66 letters for optimum legibility, but accepts that anything between 45 and 75 is satisfactory.
Headline Four
Text blocks should be constructed such that they 'honor and reveal' the relationships between the various elements - headings, subheadings, quotes, asides and footnotes. Robert Bringhurst recommends a character count per line of approximately 66 letters for optimum legibility, but accepts that anything between 45 and 75 is satisfactory.
