RED DOT - the most important award amongst designers for Ceppo Nuovo Tiles Collection
The Red Dot Design Award, often called the “Design Oscars”, is the largest and most renowned global industrial design competition, dates back to 1955. Every year, the RED DOT award in the Product Design category is presented to the best of the best for their outstanding designs and exceptional product quality.
This year, the competition’s international jury awarded this prestigious title to the Ceppo Nuovo collection, recognizing the original design and high quality of the brand’s latest collection.
– We are extremely proud of winning this special award in one of the largest and most important design competitions in the world – says Paweł Smolarek, Chief Product Officer at Cerrad. – This award is the result of the team’s hard work and it’s a recognition of our design capabilities – adds Smolarek.
– I would like to extend our thanks to the Red Dot Award Committee for this distinction that is very important to our company. I see this as recognition of what we have been striving for during the many years of the continued development of the company, and with our investments in the newest available technologies and infrastructure, thanks to which, we can offer our clients innovative products on a global scale. I consider the award a joint success for the Cerrad and La Mania Home teams – says Paweł Bak, Chief Executive Officer at Cerrad.
This “Design Oscar” for Ceppo Nuovo is also recognition for the creativity of the manufacturer that produced this collection in collaboration with the La Mania Home brand and Joanna Przetakiewicz – businesswoman, creative director and founder of the La Mania fashion house.
– We’re proud that the Red Dot jury appreciated our joint project – says Aleksander Przetakiewicz, Chief Executive Officer at La Mania and La Mania Home, who initiated the collaboration between the brands, and who adds that the award is proof of the importance that joint ventures can have.
– I am very pleased that the award was presented to a collection inspired by Milan, and one that superbly reflects the elegance of the Italian stone. Ceppo Nuovo combines the beauty of the surrounding world, travel, fashion and design in the process of establishing new interior trends. I hope it will awaken emotions and inspire everyone to create new and unique interior designs – says Joanna Przetakiewicz, Ambassador for the Cerrad x La Mania Home project.
Ceppo Nuovo – native to Italy’s capital of fashion
Sun in zenith, the aroma of coffee wafting through the air, atmosphere teeming with art, fashion and design. Full of class and elegance, but not without energy and temperament. Echoes of history are felt everywhere, a history that becomes the captivating backdrop for modernity. Full of contrasts, and because of it coherent, chill at times, but bathed in the warm southern rays – this Italian capital of beauty – Milan manages to amaze and awe at every step. It was this beauty that inspired the creation of the Ceppo Nuovo – a collection that meticulously reflects the beauty of Italian bedrock. Four stunning colours, an assortment of formats, one excellence – today, you too can feel like an artist. Design, create, strut on it as if you were on a catwalk and invite into your home a touch of the Milan style. Non c’e di che!
The Ceppo Nuovo collection is available in three colours: silver, graphite and black, several formats and two surface finish: polished and matt. Among the formats – 6 mm thick slabs measuring 2800x1200 mm.
"For production, we used technology that is characterized by greater depth. The stones, which are part of the graphic design, give the impression of being deeply sunken under a sheet of glass. The grey shades have pleasant, warm tones that work in any interior and with any kind of lighting. We used colour enhancing technology to create the matt surface, the effects of which are these unusually exquisite tiles, the originality of which was recognized by the competition’s jury." – comments Sebastian Stanek, Innovation and Technology Director at Cerrad.