CONNUBIA LAUNCHES THE DESIGN CONN|TEST

CONNUBIA LAUNCHES THE DESIGN CONN|TEST

Calligaris Group's brand, launches a challenge to the international designers' community.

Connubia, a Calligaris Group’s brand, launches a challenge to the international designers’ community and creative talents, with the aim of rethinking the entire experience related to some specific living sectors: smart occasional furniture, occasional comfort and pet design. The contest will start from 1st December and will end at the 2021 Salone del Mobile in Milan on a date to be defined.

Connubia, as the name suggests, is a brand that talks about encounters, passions, ties and affinities. The young and contemporary Calligaris Group brand is inspired by the new concept of #connubity, an essential part of the brand’s DNA that embodies its spirit and represents what it stands for: to create a new community of people bound by the same passion for fresh and dynamic design and for irreverent novelties, with the aim of combining the passions of extraordinary different generations.

The aim of the competition is to promote registered designers, giving them the opportunity to become a concrete part of the international design market. The competition is open to all professional designers, students and design lovers, from any country in the world.

The winning projects must have innovative and sustainable characteristics linked to three fundamental themes: vision, solution and mood. Projects must be visionary for a society that is not only sustainability oriented in an ecological sense but also a social, cultural and aesthetic sustainability. At the same time it must be original and linked to everyday life, with the aim of solving problems related to lack of space and housing nomadism, with aesthetic solutions and essential techniques for a sustainable lifestyle. The winner will be the one being able to capture the Connubia mood through products with a simple and functional design, where the color expresses vitality and personality. All information on the terms and conditions of participation will be available on

www.connubia.com from 1st December 2020.

CALLIGARIS GROUP

Calligaris Group is an Italian company founded in 1923 and located in Manzano (UD), which plays a leading role in the global market of the high range furniture, with a wide choice of chairs, tables, sofas, beds and furniture from the Italian design. The company develops, manufactures, assembles and distributes its furniture products through the four brands Calligaris, Connubia, Ditre and Luceplan with a network of over 650 stores in 100 countries with branches in the United States, Japan, France, United Kingdom and Russia. The 2019 financial year ended with consolidated sales of approximately 162 million euros, with an increasing 70% export stake.

ARCHIRIVOLTO

Archirivolto Design was born in 1983 in Colle di Val d'Elsa (Siena), thanks to the collaboration between Marco Pocci and Claudio Dondoli. Guided by a clear entrepreneurial vision, they traced the precise identity of their studio, specializing in the design of seatings - from the chair to the sofa, from the stools to the office and outdoor seatings – being in contact with any type of technology and material, with a particular focus on the printed materials. For over thirty years Archirivolto Design has always had the will to make beauty accessible. The studio chose to follow the entire process of product development, accompanying and supporting the customer step by step throught the market research, the elaboration of creative ideas, the realization of prototypes made internally by the studio, and the technical support to the company for the item industrialization. What is the Archirivolto Design mission? Giving light to projects in which creativity always pays attention to the saleability and the large scale marketability of the product itself.

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