Join us at Surface Design Awards 2024
The Surface Design Awards 2024 will take place from 8:00am Thursday 8 February at London's Business Design Centre, before the 3rd and final day of Surface Design Show 2024.
There's still time to purchase your ticket to attend the Awards and be amongst the first to find out who the Winners are. The Awards will see 13 winners rewarded in 8 categories. Our judges selected 40 projects as finalists for the 2024 edition, from across 20 countries worldwide.
For the first time, the 2024 Awards will reward excellence for the Surface of the Year category, for both interior and exterior surfaces. You can find out more about the shortlisted interior finalists below.
Who made the shortlist? Surface of the Year (Interior)
CASTA, Matter
Matter says 'Waste is the New Luxury', as our society remains caught in the grips of excessive wastefulness. Matter's mission is to replace virgin resources with sensory, sustainable alternatives and to captivate and educate the final consumer along the way. CASTA, made in Portugal, is crafted from grape stalks, utilizing them in their natural state to harness their inherent aesthetic qualities, captivating colours, and exquisite textures. This product merges sustainability, aesthetics, and the art of winemaking, embracing the look, colour variations, and textural nuances of grape stalks.
Rootfull, Zena Holloway
Through contemporary craft, innovation and invention, Zena Holloway grows root into memorable artefacts that cultivate material intelligence and regenerative design. Rootfull grows wheatgrass into templates carved from beeswax to create lamps and acoustic wall hangings from root. All ingredients are organic and locally sourced. The pieces show that the power of plants is infinitely renewable. Zena grows the materials into lamps that seek to shine a light on this hidden natural fibre. The root takes a different path each time, altering the light and shadow of each lamp to make each product individual.
Nevi, nevi GmbH
Nevi have developed a new material from the use of an ancient material, birch bark. Nordic birch has been used historically for roofing, boat building and shoe making. However, the use of this material fell into oblivion. This renewable material performs at its best when it meets water. The texture and feel of birch bark creates a tangible connection with nature for the skin. The surface material promotes an energy-efficient, healthy indoor climate owing to the insulating properties of the natural fibres.
The ceiling of room X1X of the UN Palace, Wood-skin
WOOD-SKIN is a semi-rigid, extremely lightweight material that makes complex forms and movements possible. A composite of wood and fabric only a few millimetres thick, the surface was the ideal solution for creating the desired ceiling finish. Designed using special parametric modelling software and proprietary WOOD-SKIN software, these tools enabled the surface to be shaped at will until achieving the dictated finish.
With seats in the Awards Presentation limited, we urge you to confirm your spot and celebrate with us. For the full list of finalists and to purchase your tickets, please visit our website.
