2013 Melbourne Design Awards - Key Dates

Design Retailer - less than 5 shops

Why Enter

Whether you are a design creator or a design commissioner you can make your mark on the Melbourne design scene by entering the Melbourne Design Awards.

Design Creator
• Gain recognition for your design achievement
• Increase awareness of your work and gain design public and peer comment
• Increased exposure to your potential customers and clients
• Bench mark your work with your peers
• Opportunity to gain national publicity and exposure

Design Commissioner
• Provides a mark of distinction for your product
• Further evidence of excellence in product development
• Bench mark your product with those of your peers
• Increased exposure of your brand / product
• Opportunity to gain national publicity and exposure

Description

This award recognises the leading retailer of designer products. The award is allocated in three categories based on the number of retail outlets in Australia (Less than 5 stores, 5+ stores). Digital retailers may be included. 

Current entries

dedece

Design Retailer - less than 5 shops

dedece is a family owned business operating for more than 30 years. Their primary mission has always been to supply architectural products to the A + D community, meanwhile supporting the industry and nurturing young Australian designers by partnering them up with European manufacturers.

Poliform

Design Retailer - less than 5 shops

Poliform Italy is a family business founded in the north of Italy in 1970, and is built on artisan furniture making traditions. Today the collection is represented in 74 countries, and in cities from New York, Tokyo and London, to Sydney, Los Angeles and Hong Kong. From the beginning, Poliform established creative partnerships with leading designers and architects to develop its wide and diversified collection. In collaboration with Roberto Barbieri, Carlo Colombo, Studio Kairos, Jean- Marie Massaud, Paolo Piva, Vincent Van Duysen and Marcel Wanders, the Poliform range has designs for every area of the home and includes bookcases, wardrobe systems, beds and sofas, chairs, tables and the Poliform Kitchen collection. In addition to the Poliform collection, Poliform Australia represents some of Italy’s most respected furniture brands Arflex as well as Porada and Pallucco Italia.

cylk on Chapel

Design Retailer - less than 5 shops

cylk is a brand with a soul and a story. As the latest recipient of the prestigious International Apparel Federation Design Award, cylk opened its first flagship shopping destination at 497 Chapel Street, South Yarra after the successful tenure of 3 pop-up stores around Melbourne, Australia. The store focusses on the compelling and unique aspects of the brand that include innovation, the high prevalence of natural fibres not only within the collection but through the fixtures that make up the store, and also being a pioneer in seamless technology; a sustainble knitting process that minimizes wastage and reduces energy consumption. The flagship store focusses on personalising the shopping experience for the brands valued clients. Branching into the international market, with stockists already in Canada, South Africa and New Zealand, cylk also plan to open boutiques in selected locations across Melbourne, Sydney and Perth and aim to have 3-5 stores within the next 2 years.

Space Furniture

Design Retailer - less than 5 shops

Space launched its first showroom in Sydney in 1993, quickly establishing the benchmark for design retailing in Australia. Since then the company has developed into South-East Asia’s largest and most progressive retailer of contemporary design. With a unique approach and highly sophisticated, design-focused interior environments, Space is home to the worlds leading furniture brands including B&B Italia, Kartell. Moooi, Zanotta and Vitra. Space Furniture is located at 629 Church Street, Richmond, the design precinct of Melbourne. www.spacefurniture.com.au