Compasso d'Oro
Parts of this article (those related to "missing the last three editions, please refer to Wikipedia in Italian language (it.wiki) with its sources to update this page as soon as possible") need to be updated. (June 2014) |
This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Italian. (September 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
Compasso d'Oro (Italian pronunciation: [komˈpasso ˈdɔːro]; Golden Compass) is the name of an industrial design award originated in Italy in 1954 by the La Rinascente company from an original idea of Gio Ponti and Alberto Rosselli. From 1964 it has been hosted exclusively by Associazione per il Disegno Industriale (ADI). It is the first, and among the most recognized, awards in its field. The prize aims to acknowledge and promote quality in the field of industrial designs made in Italy and is awarded by ADI.
| Compasso d'Oro | |
|---|---|
Compasso d'Oro logo | |
| Awarded for | Industrial design award |
| Country | Italy |
| Presented by | Associazione per il Disegno Industriale |
| First awarded | 1954 |
| Website | www |
History
The Compasso d′Oro was established in 1954, and now it is the highest honour in the field of industrial design in Italy,[1] comparable to other prestigious international awards such as the Good Design award, iF Design Award, Red Dot Award, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards, and the Good Design Award (Japan). It was the first award of its kind in Europe and soon took on an international dimension and relevance, multiplying the occasions on which the exhibitions of award-winning objects were held in Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan. The Castiglioni brothers contributed to establish the ADI and the Compasso d’Oro awards. Enzo Mari was president of the ADI from 1976 to 1979. At present the management department of the Compasso d'Oro is Italy Industrial Designing Association, and it is also the members of the International Industrial Designing Committee and the European Designing Bureau.
Since its inception, approximately 300 designs have been honoured the Award, covering a wide range of products such as racing bikes, portable sewing machines, desks, sofas, vases, clothes hangers, drawers, clocks, desk lamps, telephones, electric fans and coffee machines. Some of the awarded designs are exposed in Milan, in the Collection of the Premio Compasso d'Oro ADI. On 22 April 2004, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism – through its Superintendency for Lombardy – declared the collection of "exceptional artistic and historical interest", thus making it part of the national cultural heritage.[2]
List of Compasso d'Oro Awards
| Year | Jury | Entries | ADI president | Winners | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1954 | Aldo Bassetti, Cesare Brustio, Gio Ponti, Alberto Rosselli, Marco Zanuso | 5700 | 15 | |
| 2nd | 1955 | Aldo Bassetti, Cesare Brustio, E. N. Rogers, Alberto Rosselli, Marco Zanuso | 1300 | 12 | |
| 3rd | 1956 | Aldo Bassetti, Cesare Brustio, Franco Albini, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Alberto Rosselli | 1450 | Alberto Rosselli (Birth of the ADI) | 9 |
| 4th | 1957 | Aldo Bassetti, Cesare Brustio, Franco Albini, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Ignazio Gardella | 1200 | Giulio Castelli | 5 |
| 5th | 1959 | Bruno Alfieri, Vico Magistretti, Giulio Minoletti, Augusto Morello, Giovanni Romano | 1200 | Livio Castiglioni | 6 |
| 6th | 1960 | Ludovico Belgiojoso, Vico Magistretti, Augusto Magnaghi, Augusto Morello, Marco Zanuso | 800 | Franco Albini | 10 |
| 7th | 1962 | Giulio Castelli, Franco Momigliano, Augusto Morello, Bruno Munari, Battista Pininfarina | Roberto Olivetti | 9 | |
| 8th | 1964 | Massimo Vignelli, Dante Giacosa, Vittorio Gregotti, Augusto Morello, Bruno Munari, Gino Valle | Aldo Basetti | 6 | |
| 9th | 1967 | Aldo Basetti, Felice Dessi, Gillo Dorfles, Tomás Maldonado, Edoardo Vittoria | Marco Zanuso | 13 | |
| 10th | 1970 | Francesco Mazzucca, Franco Albini, Jean Baudrillard, Achille Castiglioni, Federico Correa, Vittorio Gregotti, Roberto Guiducci, Albe Steiner | Anna Castelli Ferrieri | 10 | |
| 11th | 1979 | Andrea Branzi, Clino Trini Castelli, Massimo Morozzi, Angelo Cortesi, Gillo Dorfles, Augusto Morello, Arthur Pulos, Yuri Soloviev, Nanni Strada | 1167 | Enzo Mari | 39 |
| 12th | 1981 | François Barrè, Cesare De Seta, Martin Kelm, Ugo La Pietra, Pierluigi Spadolini | Rodolfo Bonetto | 16 | |
| 13th | 1984 | Cino Boeri, Douglas Kelley, Antti Nurmesniemi, Giotto Stoppino, Bruno Zevi | Giotto Stoppino | 11 | |
| 14th | 1987 | Angelo Cortesi, Rodolfo Bonetto, Marino Marini, Cara Mc Carty, Philippe Starck | Angelo Cortesi | 16 | |
| 15th | 1989 | Pierliugi Molinari, Fredrik Wildhagen, Hans Wichmann, Cesare Stevan, Tomás Maldonado | Pierluigi Molinari | 12 | |
| 16th | 1991 | Silvio Ceccato, Marcello Inghilesi, Victor Margolin, Pierluigi Molinari, Antti Nurmesniemi, Vito Noto | Angelo Cortesi | 14 | |
| 17th | 1994 | Dante Giacosa, Vittoriano Viganò, Giovanni Anceschi, Paola Antonelli, Uta Brandes, Jacob Gantenbein, Marja Heemskerk, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Marco Migliari, Gianemiglio Monti, Mario Trimarchi, Vito Noto | Augusto Morello | 13 | |
| 18th | 1998 | Achille Castiglioni, Giuseppe De Rita, Marianne Frandsen, Fritz Frenkler, Sadik Karamustafa, Tomás Maldonado, Marco Zanuso | Augusto Morello | 15 | |
| 19th | 2001 | Marie-Laure Jousset, Filippo Alison, François Burkhardt, Omar Calabrese, Francisco Jarauta, Maurizio Morgantini, Erik Spiekermann | Giancarlo Iliprandi | 17 | |
| 20th | 2004 | Tomas Maldonado, Fulya Erdemci, Robert Fitzpatrick, Yutaka Mino, Pietro Petraroia, Richard Sapper, Angela Schönberger, Tomàš Vlček | Carlo Forcolini | 15 | |
| 21st | 2008 | Mario Bellini, Moh-Jin Chew, Lieven Daenens, Carla Di Francesco, Carlo Forcolini, Norbert Linke, Emanuele Pirella, Richard R. Whitaker, Miguel Milá | 12 | ||
| 22nd | 2011 | Arturo Dell'Acqua Bellavitis, Chantal Clavier Hamaide, Umberto Croppi, Guto Indio Da Costa, Pierre Keller, Cecilie Manz, Clive Roux, Shiling Zheng | 22 | ||
| 23rd | 2014 | Anders Byriel, Vivian Cheng, Giorgio De Ferrari, Stefan Diez, Defne Koz, Mario Gagnon, Paolo Lomazzi, Laura Traldi | 23[3] |
- Some of the winning products 1956-1960. Photo by Paolo Monti
Super-automatic sewing machine model 1102 designed by Marco Zanuso (Fratelli Borletti)
Valigia arcata in vitellone scamosciato della ditta Beretta.
In the shelf: electro-mechanic clock "Cifra 5" (R.E.C. Solari, Udine)
Sewing machine Mirella designed by Marcello Nizzoli for V. Necchi Spa.
Franco Albini photographed by Paolo Monti at Compasso d'Oro Award, Milan, circa 1960.
- Other winning products
Richard Sapper's 1979 9090 espresso maker for Alessi.
Nuovo Milano, a 1987 cutlery set designed by Ettore Sottsass with assistance of Alberto Gozzi.[4]
Alfa Romeo Brera Concept by Giorgetto Giugiaro
Sacco chair by Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini, Franco Teodoro
Trivia
The award is given as a Compass, the one invented by Adalbert Goeringer in 1893 to measure the Golden Section.
See also
- Industrial design
- List of industrial designers
- List of Compasso d'Oro recipients by year (in Italian)
References
- ^ "The history of the Compasso d'Oro through 20 projects". www.domusweb.it. Retrieved 2022-09-21.
- ^ "Compasso d'Oro". ADI Associazione per il disegno industriale. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
- ^ "Kenji Ekuan, designer of the classic soy sauce dispenser, dead at age 85". Japan Times. February 9, 2015. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
- ^ Alessi, Alberto (1998). The Dream Factory: Alessi since 1921. Könemann. p. 29. ISBN 3-8290-1377-9.
External links
- The official web page of the Associazione per il Disegno Industriale (in Italian)
Further reading
- Charlotte Fiell; Peter Fiell (2006). Industrial Design A-Z. London: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8228-5057-2.