The International "Good Design" award is the world's oldest and most coveted good design award. This design competition, founded by architects Charles & Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. in Chicago in 1950, was created to bring global recognition to the world's most influential designers. The award is presented to those that advance new, visionary, and innovative product concepts that represent originality that pushes beyond what is considered to be "ordinary" consumer designs. Today, two of the most influential Architecture and Design organizations, The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, work together to narrow down the thousands of entries to those concepts that will go down in history as industry leading ideas.
At King Street Kitchen Company we are proud to represent two organizations, Allmilmo Cabinetry and Gaggenau Professional Appliances, that have been honored with this award. In fact, the number of award winning products created by these two innovative leaders in the Kitchen & Bath Industry is simply to vast for a simple blog entry. Below, I have highlighted several of the most recent recognitions of the "Good Design" award.
The Allmilmo "Wave" Kitchen, seen above and below, features a uniquely contoured door that is available in a plethora of highly durable "Diamond Lacquer" color combinations. Samples are available for preview at the King Street Kitchen Company Showroom.
As many of you know, the name Gaggenau has been synonymous with not only "Good Design", but as a representation of true restaurant quality kitchen appliances. I recently read a blog forum that a US engineer had posted his oven temperature test results on. He found that not only did the Gaggenau ovens have a consistent temperature reading throughout the entire oven compartment, but the temperature read out on the appliance itself was 100% accurate AND when he opened and closed the oven door, the unit re-established the desired cooking temperature before his precision equipment could even detect a temperature change. I have always been impressed by the quality of the Gaggenau product, but reading this unsolicited feedback simply blew me away.
Pictured above is the innovative Gaggenau "lift oven". Below, the Gaggenau refrigerator column which features a stainless steel interior, cantilevered glass shelving with button adjustment controller, and front / back lighting. Upon first seeing this unit at The National Kitchen & Bath Association Industry Show the first words out of my mouth were "wow - a jewelry cabinet for your food".
