PORTUGUESE MARTINI COCKTAIL GLASS WINS
BOMBAY SAPPHIRE GLOBAL DESIGN PRIZE 2007
Milan, April 19 2007 - Portuguese designer, Sandra Inês
Mesquita da Conceição
has been named the winner of this year’s global final of the Bombay
Sapphire
Designer Glass Competition, one of the top design contests in the world
for up- upand-
coming designers.
and-Sandra, who is studying design at ESAD - Escola Superior
de Artes e Design in
Matosinhos, Porto, collected the US$15,000 prize from Bombay Sapphire
Foundation member, Karim Rashid, at an awards event held this evening
as part of
Milan Design Week.
Guests including international designers, media and the
21 global finalists gathered
for the final judging of the glasses which are displayed within the Bombay
Sapphire
exhibition at Superstudio Piu in Milan.
The judging panel included high profile international designers:
Tom Dixon, Jaime
Hayon and Marcel Wanders. Marcel described t the winning glass as: “Truly
he innovative. It !s so different, playful and is like a very cool piece
of jewellery. I love it!”
Called Goobly Goobly, the design is in two parts - a glass bowl for the
cocktail and a total
, of 23 durable and shiny interconnected rings suspended from a main ring
supporting the glass. The metal elements allow for interaction, challenging
the
person drinking a cocktail to play with the glass and explore its shape
without
spilling the contents.
Two runner-up designers, Ronen Bauer from Canada and Stephan
Gouraud from
France, won US$5,000 and US$2,500 respectively.
In the last year, thousands of up-and-coming designers from
around the world have
designed martini cocktail glasses inspired by Bombay Sapphire and the
21 finalists
in Milan represent: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France,
Germany,
Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, South Korea,
Spain,
Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the UK and USA.
For more information on the competition go to www.designerglasscompetition.com
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