In association with Boardmans, Elle Decoration runs the Solve New Talent Search.
According to ELLE DECORATION editor, Laureen Rossouw, the competition encourages up-and-coming design talent – from students to professional designers – to take into consideration the elements involved in great design. “The spirit of Elle Decoration – one that is beautiful, useful and easily accessible – inspired this year’s brief which was to design a stool that was original, beautiful and showed ingenuity. And because the winning design will be made up as a prototype by Boardmans, with the chance that it will be put into production, it also needed to be structurally sound and have the elements of marketability.”
See the four finalists designs below. You’ll have to get your copy of Elle Decoration to find out who wins. I’m rooting for the beaded stool or Protea stool .
