Villa Noailles Hyères Winners

Following its tenth anniversary last year, Villa Noailles is pleased to expand its annual Design Parade festival from Hyères to a second locale in the Var region. Whereas the event in Hyères has historically focused on design, the new edition of Design Parade in Toulon takes the theme of interior design. At both events, the emphasis remains on young designers, including a prestigious awards program, for which the winner receives a number of research scholarships and exhibition opportunities.

For the Grand Prix at Hyères, the jury led by Max Lamb has selected Pernelle Poyet. Her project “Alphabet” is a proposal to “create a library forms, materials, connections and finishes” that can be combined to form different furniture and objects. Drawing an analogy between typography and typology, the simple beech wood elements — 92 in all — serve as a kind of vocabulary of contemporary design.

Other honorees among the ten invited studios include Thélonious Goupil, who won the Special Award of the Jury, and Sylvain Chassériaux, the Eyes On Talents x Frame Special Mention. The former created the “Seaside Bench”, a simple site-specific bench composed of four planks of cedar on an “h”-shaped base, while the latter took on “Handcrafted Electronics”. All three of the young designers recently completed their degrees at ENSCI les Ateliers.

The concurrent Villa Noailles festivals were held during the weekend of 1–3 July, 2016, with the exhibitions on view until 25 and 11 September in Hyères and Toulon, respectively. Stay tuned for more details on the winners at Toulon.

Full list of the ten shortlisted participants at Design Parade Hyères: Santini Basra; Butternutten AG (Olivier-Selim Boualam & Lukas Marstaller), Sylvain Chassériaux; Germans Ermics; From – Industrial Design (Cesare Bizzotto & Tobias Nitsche); Thélonious Goupil; Jean Besson, Charlotte Talbot, Lucas Uhlmann & Jonathan Mauloubier; Guillaume Jandin; Pernelle Poyet; Nick Ross.