The prizes and honorable mentions of the 2024 Compasso d’Oro have been assigned, the award created by Giò Ponti to celebrate Made in Italy design. Among the 20 prizes, some surprises stand out: the Cellia interactive facade, the result of the collaboration between Progetto CRM and the facade designer Focchi Spa, and the multifaceted MRX shading system, the work of the Talenti company and the designer Marco Acerbis. Among the 39 honorable mentions there is also the Leva door handle by Dnd designed by the Milanese studio Park Associati.
The prestigious awards of the Compasso d’Oro Award, now in its seventieth anniversary, were awarded at the ADI Design Museum in Milan. It was, in fact, created by designer Giò Ponti in 1954 to celebrate Made in Italy products and to promote Italian design. The award is organized by the ADI, Association for Industrial Design, which since 1956 has brought together designers, companies, researchers, teachers, critics, journalists around the themes of design: project, consumption, recycling, training. Every two years, after a long selection process, ADI awards awards to products that stand out for their innovation, functionality and aesthetics.
The Golden Compass
The XXVIII edition of the Compasso d’Oro saw 20 awards assigned to as many products and 39 honorable mentions chosen by an international jury from 311 products present in the ADI Design Index 2022 and 2023. The ceremony saw the presence of Attilio Fontana, president of the Lombardy Region, and Giuseppe Sala, mayor of Milan, Luciano Galimberti, president of ADI, and Umberto Cabini, president of the ADI Collezione Compasso d’Oro Foundation. The Compasso d’Oro 2024 jury was composed of: Maria Cristina Didero, independent author and curator; Luciano Galimberti, designer and president of ADI; Francisco Gómez Paz, designer; Renata Cristina Mazzantini, director of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome; Toshiyuki Kita, designer and Ambassador of the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka.
The Cellia façade was awarded
Among the twenty products awarded with the Compasso d’Oro, the interactive facade appears Celliathe result of collaboration between CRM project And Focchi Spa, an international level facade builder. It is the first time that a façade component has obtained the prestigious recognition. The reason for the recognition: “The evolution of the wet construction site into a dry construction site, supported by a product capable of integrating in an industrialized manner the conventional functions of the architectural component with the most advanced control technologies of an advanced building”. Cellia is an integrated and high-tech enclosure system, completely customizable in finishes and performance levels, entirely made in the factory and intended for both new constructions and retrofitting. We will return to this architectural component soon with more details.
Award for MRX
“A new type of architectural complement with variable conformation – portal, gazebo – for the comfort of outdoor living spaces, capable of becoming an ordering element of the space as well as an efficient functional response to the need for shade”. This is the jury’s reasoning for MRXa new and particular idea from the designer Marco Acerbis which allows you to shade your living room with a space-saving element and a unique design according to the style Talents. It is, specifies the outdoor living specialist, an architectural concept that takes inspiration from classic pergolas and shading awnings but revolutionizes their structure. The structure made of extruded aluminum available in different color variations, when closed appears to be an extremely enigmatic portal but with its compass opening it allows the extension of the awning for a large and pleasant shade.
Mention for a Lever
An Honorable Mention was awarded to the door handle Lever of the Brescia company Dndthe result of the studio project Park Associates. The product was present in ADI Design Index 2023. This is how the Milanese studio presents the handle: “In designing Leva we started from the physical concept of lever, to its archetype, which has affected not only the history of science but also philosophy, the arts and the most varied areas of our life, from sports to children’s games. An essential gesture, that of leveraging an almost microscopic mechanism which however allows an action full of meaning, even figurative: opening a door!”
Ennio Braicovich
