id Design Awards 2019 Juror: Teresa Sapey
Vanguard design colors functionalism in her international projects.
Teresa Sapey epitomizes the international flavour of the 2019 id Design Awards jury. An Italian who also studied in Paris, her studio Teresa Sapey Architecture, is headquartered in Madrid, Spain, where she combines teaching with her professional career.
Specializing in vanguard design, she injects energy into spaces, whether it is a shop, restaurant, car park, hotel or public space. Her objective is to project the users’ emotions with humour, colour and harmony. At first her designs, both spaces and products may appear abstract, but by blending creativity, functionalism, art and design, they communicate their ideas with subtlety and clarity.
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A graduate of the Polytechnic University of Turin and the Parson School of Design in Paris, she founded her own practice in 1990 is a member of the RIBA. She has worked on projects alongside Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, David Chipperfield, and Jean Nouvel, among others. Her numerous awards include Wallpaper Young Breakthrough Designer of the Year and Best Designer of the year by AD magazine.
She designed the first ecological and sustainable car park in the world in Valencia, Spain, which incorporated an electrical vehicle charging stations. Her diamond-cut Adan collection transforms a cerebral head into an array of functions.
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