Cristalplant has announced the winners of the tenth edition of the Cristalplant Design Contest. The competition aims to involve the creative spirit of young talents to produce innovative products, using Cristalplant material as a base for products inspired by the unmistakeable Falper style.
The competition received over 500 projects, and jury has selected three winners for three categories: free-standing, wall-mounted and countertop washbasins; wall and countertop hand-rinse basins; bathtubs.
Lancetta by Carlomagno Lucia
Lancetta is a bathtub born of the idea of giving a greater feeling of comfort and well-being, assimilating the bath experience with the experience of sitting on a chaise lounge. The concept is the same as the design of the first bathtubs in the nineteenth century, where the raised ends as backrests and the turned-up edges allowed resting your arms more comfortably. These aspects translate formally into curved lines typical of the Liberty style of the time. Lancetta relaunches this thought, without breaking the lines of contemporary bathtubs, but really starting from these and delicately opening like a water lily.
Otre by Mariotti Lorenzo
The Otre hand-rinse basin is born of the attempt to combine shape and material with a metaphoric meaning. It takes inspiration from the archetypal shape of the wineskin, translating its symbolic meaning into concrete creativity. In the past, the wineskin was used as a container to transport liquids and its strong point was the ability it had to adapt its shape to the surface it was laying on.
From here the idea to create a continuous and fluid surface like the one of the Otre hand-rinse basin that, with simple but anything but banal aesthetics, manages to emphasize the Cristalplant properties of versatility, resistance and pleasantness to the touch and sight. Its shape contributes to give the impression that it is almost detached from the wall and held up only by the tap, located on the tapered edge that frames it. Finally, the chamfered edge gives it a sinuosity that complies with the distinctive features of the project.
Offset by Simone Savini
Sharp and precise lines form a vertical plane parallel and detached from the wall, where a shelf is obtained. The washbasin is obtained from a semi-sphere connected to the vertical plane with soft bending radii. It is possible to add lighting in the top and bottom part of the vertical plane.
