Twenty award-winning products (311 included in the catalogue) and eleven career awards awarded to as many personalities (nine Italian and two international) who have distinguished themselves in the world of design. To which are added the prizes for 3 products long seller–design successes present on the market with a career spanning over ten years – and the thirty-nine Honorable Mentions to products chosen for their qualities. This is the budget of XXVIII Compasso d’Oro ADIwhose awards ceremony took place in Milan on June 20th, in the Compasso d’Oro square in front of the ADI Design Museum.
The International Compasso d’Oro for Expo 2025 is born
An edition, the 2024 one, which coincides with the announcement of an important innovation for the future development of one of the most important recognitions of Italian design: in view of Expo 2025 OsakaIn fact, ADI launches an international edition of the Award in partnership with the General Commissariat for Italy at the Universal Exhibition. An initiative that will have the task “to present on a world stage the principles of design quality and social responsibility that have consolidated the value of the Compasso d’Oro over 70 years of history, developing through design the central theme of Expo 2025, ‘Designing the future society for our lives’”.
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Compasso d’Oro 2024. The jury and the awarded themes
In its 70th anniversary edition – the Award was born in 1954, from an idea of Gio Ponti – the Compasso d’Oro has relied on the judgment of a jury composed of Maria Cristina Dideroindependent author and curator, Luciano Galimbertidesigner and president of ADI, Francisco Gómez Pazdesigner, Renata Cristina Mazzantinidirector of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, Toshiyuki Kitadesigner and Ambassador of the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, who highlighted the application of advanced technologies functional to achieve “a particular poetic maturity“, and highlights, as an element of particular interest, “the increasingly convinced confirmation by public entities to use design in building a new relationship with citizens”. Added to these remarks is the satisfaction of detecting a growing attention in design to sustainability and to job security.
Compasso d’Oro 2024. The awarded products
Among the award-winning products, the Farfallina chair designed by stands out Alvaro Siza for Sozzani, focusing on a parsimonious use of material, the lamp – thread-like sculpture – Anima di Davide Groppithe sustainable sofa ZA:ZA by Zanotta – which adopts recycled and recyclable materials and eliminates the use of glues – and avant-garde innovations such as EMSI, an intelligent spacesuit from the Apulian startup REA.
The Compasso d’Oro for the museum display goes to the Luigi Rovati and Mario Cucinella Foundation
Among the winners, too Rovati Foundation with Mario Cucinella Architectsfor the for the project “Art Museum Luigi Rovati Foundation” (in Milan), which is recognized as a “museographic and museological exhibition created through design, which takes inspiration from the relationship with the tradition of sculpture, creating an emotionally engaging environment and underlining the relationship between user and cultural heritage”. “Important achievement, the result of great creative team work”, underlines Cucinella (also a protagonist at Expo 2025, called to design the Italian Pavilion “The ideal city”). Still in the museum field, it is up to the Royal Museums of Turin an Honorable Mention for the layout of the Archaeological Gallery, edited by Tortelli Frassoni Architetti Associati.
The Compassi d’Oro for lifetime achievement, from Piero Lissoni to Tadao Ando
Also prestigious is the array of career awards, which this year recognize a fundamental impact on the world of design Paola Antonellicurator of the Department of Architecture and Design at the MoMa in New York; Umberto Cassinapresident of Mdf Italia; Anna FerrinoCEO of the leading outdoor companies Ferrino & C.; Roberto Gavazzi of Boffi/DePadova; Piero Lissoniarchitect and designer; Francesca Planetapresident of Planeta Estate; Maurizio Riva, president of Riva 1920; the architect, designer and entrepreneur Paolo Rizzatto; Roberto Ziliani, founder of Slamp; the Japanese architect Tadao Ando and the founder of Comme De Garçon Rei Kawakubo. However, three classic products are in the spotlight, all due to the intuitions of Gio Ponti: the Superleggera for Cassina (1957), the Blu Ponti Collection for Ceramica Francesco De Maio (1960) and the D.154.2 armchair for Molteni (1953) .
The Compasso d’Oro exhibition at the ADI Design Museum
The projects awarded with the Compasso d’Oro Award and with Honorable Mention, as usual, become part of the Historical Collection of the ADI Compasso d’Oro Award declared by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Regional Superintendence for Lombardy “of exceptional artistic interest and historical”, and will be protagonists until 16 September 2024 of the exhibition set up at the ADI Design Museum, which presents to the public 174 of the products of this edition of the award (exhibition project by Perla Gianni Falvo and Carlo Malerba).
On the occasion of the ceremony, ADI and the ADI Foundation also remembered some figures who recently passed away, who stood out for their great contribution to the culture of the project, with the presentation of a special plaque. The recognition went to Manlio Armelliniwho passed away in 2020, who with FederlegnoArredo was among the creators and promoters of the Salone del Mobile in Milan, and to the designers Gaetano Pesce And Italo Rota.
Livia Montagnoli
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