Regular Deadline: January 12th, 2025

 

May

  • Prize
    Furniture Design of the Year
  • Company/Firm
    Jaderalmeida
  • Designer
    Jader Almeida
  • Photo Credit
    SOLLOS.
  • Location
    Brasil
  • Project Date
    05/2021
  • Client
    SOLLOS.
  • Project Link
  • Web URL

May is a lounge armchair, with balanced proportions and generous comfort, to be used in various environments, such as living rooms, bedrooms, and lobby areas. The extreme comfort of the upholstery, in line with the sculptural forms of the wood are the main differentials of a piece that transcends its status quo. The upholstery with precise cuts, seams that are both firm and delicate. The wood, in turn, is valued in particular twists, which show the construction of the piece and the natural veins of the wood. Its shape seems to embrace the upholstery. The fluidity and continuity of the lines are an invitation to look and touch.

Bio
Commanding the materialization of his projects with a strategic view in a complex and extensive line of furniture and objects, Jader Almeida allies the most advanced furniture serial manufacturing system to the finest and irreplaceable treatment of manual finishing. Jader Almeida's pieces make themselves known in layers. Each may be savored slowly."I create pieces, not to play a main role in the space, but to play supporting roles. My design is the fruit of extreme labor of projected simplification and, at the same time, from the point of view of production, my pieces are very detailed".

Other prizes
2020 IF Design Award 2020: WINDSOR chair, ELLA chair and MEMORY lamp Good Design Award Chicago - USA: ELLA chair and ARIS dining table 13º International Design Awards (IDA): ELLA armchair Red Dot Award: ELLA chair 2019 Good Design Award Chicago - USA: BELL chair German Design Award 2019: CELINE lounge chair (nominee) Prêmio Casa Vogue de Design 2019 - Designer do Ano: Jader Almeida Prêmio Casa Vogue de Design 2019 - Louças e Metais: ÍCARO series for Portobello Prêmio Casa Vogue de Design 2019 - Mobiliário: AIR collection (sideboards and coffee table) 2018 Good Design Award Chicago - USA: CELINE lounge chair IF Design Award: CELINE lounge chair 32º Prêmio Museu da Casa Brasileira: ÍCARO for Portobello (3rd place) 2017 Red Dot Product Design Award: MIA chair IF Product Design Award: MIA chair 31º Prêmio Design MCB CELINE lounge chair (2nd place) 31º Prêmio Design MCB, Papeleira 001 for DECA (3rd place) 31º Prêmio Design MCB, Banheira 001 for DECA (honorable mention) Brasil Design Award 2017, premiada na categoria “Produto – Móveis”: MIA chair Best in Show Ceramics of Brazil (Expo Revestir 2017): Coleção Jader Almeida for DECA VII Prêmio Casa Claudia - Designer of the year 2016 Top XXI Prêmio Design Brasil: CLAD chair Restaurant and Bar Product Design Award: TWIST coffe table Prêmio Bienal Latino-americana de Diseño: CLAD chair (finalist) Brasil Design Award: CLAD chair Good Design Award Chicago: MIA chair, LEGG dining table Best in Show Ceramics of Brazil (Expo Revestir 2016): Cuba 001 for DECA Grand Prix Architects and Interior Designers Award: Cuba 001 for DECA 2015 29º Prêmio Museu da Casa Brasileira: CLAD chair (honorable mention), Twist table (honorable mention) Good Design Award Chicago - USA: CLAD chair IF Design Awards 2016: CLAD chair and among others between 2008 - 2014