Milan Design Weeks
April 2016
LEXUS Design Award 2016
Milan Design Weeks
April 2016
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Milan Design Weeks
April 2016

LEXUS Design Award 2016
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April 12 2016 -> April 17 2016 from 10am to 8pm
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[size=14][red]An Encounter with Anticipation[/red][/size]

[size=14]The Design studio [red]Formafantasma[/red] : Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin, (IT) and Michelin-star chef [red]Yoji Tokuyoshi[/red] (JP) interpret the ‘’Lexus’ world of Anticipation’’.

Are exhibited the 12 creations competing, selecteded from the Jury from the 1,232 works submitted, for the [red]Lexus Design Award 2016[/red][/size].

THE JURY : TOYO ITO - Pritzker Prize-winning architect;
PAOLA ANTONELLI - Senior curator at MoMA, NYC,
ARIC CHEN - Curator at Hong Kong's upcoming M+ Museum;
BIRGIT LOHMANN - Designer, co-founder of designboom.com;
ALICE RAWSTHORN - Author of Hello World: Where Design Meets Life and design critic for the New York Times and Frieze;
TOKUO FUKUICHI - Held many design-related positions at Toyota Motor Corporation, leading up to his current position as President of Lexus International.

[size=14]Under the mentorship of personalitys globally recognized, 4 of those finalists were selected to produce prototypes for the exhibition of Milan[/size].

THE MENTORS : [size=14][green]Lyndon Neri, Rossana Hu[/green] - cofounders of Neri & Hu Design and Research, Shanghai;
[green]Max Lamb[/green] - product and furniture designer;
[green]Elena Manferdini[/green] - Owner of Atelier Manferdini,
[green]Daniel Arsham, Alex Mustonen[/green] - Snarkitecture.[/size]

MORE of Lexus Design Award 2016

[size=14] Press preview: April 11 from 10am to 6pm[/size]
[size=14] Cocktail by invitation: April 11 from 7pm to 10pm
At 19.30: [red]Lexus Design Award ceremony[/red][/size]
Spazio Lexus - Torneria
via Tortona 32
20144 Milan

Press Contact: Alessandro Mammola
P : +39 02 34 97 07 60
alessandro.mammola@attila.it