Products that Captivate: 11 Award-Winning Designs from IIDA Competitions
At a Glance
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Designs rethink interaction, blending tech, movement, and sensory moments to elevate everyday interiors.
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Thoughtful materials and craftsmanship create tactile, refined solutions with emotional impact.
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Performance and practicality are seamlessly integrated into expressive forms that still feel human.
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Sustainability, adaptability, and inclusivity guide designs that prioritize people and future needs.
Design is a language of touch, light, color, motion, and emotion—and these products speak it fluently. Drawn from recent IIDA competitions, each award-winning piece celebrates the craftsmanship, material intelligence, and visual storytelling shaping interiors today. From featherweight metals to hand-tufted blossoms to ombré canopies, they remind us that design is not only about what we use, but how we experience beauty, function, and creativity in everyday life.
Pulse Armchair
By Mercoeur Édition
Inspired by the rhythm of a heartbeat, Pulse translates movement into comfort with its softly undulating backrest. Meticulous pleating and rich velvet upholstery make this chair as inviting as it is sculptural. Crafted with a European sensibility—read: Paris—it elevates any lounge or lobby through its quiet choreography of form and texture.
Omero
By Thomas Cooper Studio
Metal and light meet in Omero, a lighting series defined by cinematic contrasts. Brass, glass, and shadow interact to create an atmospheric glow that feels both industrial and intimate. Ideal for restaurants, bars, or boutique hotels, it turns illumination into mood—a study in restraint and refinement.
Ocean Master MAX Bolero: Ombré Blossom
By Tuuci
The 2025 IIDA/HD Expo Product Design Awards Best of Competition Winner, Tuuci’s Ombré Blossom turns shade into sculpture, blending craftsmanship and engineering for a dramatic outdoor statement. With 336 hand-tufted blossoms cascading along the canopy in coral-to-ivory ombré, this 12-foot parasol transforms sunlight into design. Equally functional and ornamental, it embodies the intersection of precision, customization, and poetic form.
Kinetic
By Astek
Astek’s Kinetic introduces movement to wall design through video-based pattern generation and bespoke printing. Each composition is derived from hundreds of digital frames, frozen at a designer’s chosen moment, creating one-of-a-kind murals. The result is a visual dialogue between technology and texture—walls that seem to breathe and shift with time.
Cape Wall Sconce
By Kalco Lighting
Wrapped in hand-stitched leather and brushed brass, Cape brings a warm, tactile contrast to modern interiors. Concealed LEDs cast light upward and downward, softly grazing the wall while highlighting the fixture’s craftsmanship. It’s refined simplicity at its best—technology hidden behind thoughtful materiality.
Ultraleggera
By Zieta Prozessdesign
Weighing just 3.65 pounds, Ultraleggera redefines material efficiency through FiDU air-formed aluminum. Its mirror-polished frame reflects its environment, dissolving the line between object and space. Fully recyclable and award-winning, it’s not only the world’s lightest metal chair—it’s a manifesto for the future of sustainable design.
Elvari Washroom Accessories Collection
By Bradley
Elvari brings unity and elegance to the most functional spaces. With pill-shaped curves, seamless joints, and smart refill indicators, this stainless-steel collection balances aesthetics with efficiency. Available in a palette of modern finishes, it gives designers creative freedom to make hospitality restrooms as refined as the rest of the interior.
Avalon Lounge Chair
By KFI Studios
Sculpted yet sustainable, Avalon balances its soft split-form seat on a minimal steel frame. Its 3D-knit upholstery—woven from recycled plastic bottles—offers both comfort and conscience. Optional swivel tables, privacy screens, and power integration make it adaptable to today’s hybrid spaces, proving design can be agile, beautiful, and responsible.
Tufted Manchaha
By Jaipur Living
The Tufted Manchaha collection turns leftover yarn into one-of-a-kind rugs that tell human stories. Each design originates from a rural Indian artisan’s imagination—motifs drawn from daily life, music, or nature—woven into vibrant compositions. It’s sustainability through storytelling, where waste becomes beauty and craft becomes livelihood.
Carrello
By Vertical Ledge
The Carrello is a modular beverage cart that brings hospitality to life through mobility and design. Crafted from FSC-certified birch with tambour panels and concealed wiring, it blends function and elegance. Perfect for coffee service or champagne hour, it rolls effortlessly from event to experience—proof that small-scale design can leave a big impression.
Fluida
By Arizona Tile
Fluida captures the slow artistry of natural stone through digital craftsmanship. Its Italian-made porcelain layers veining and minerals with painterly precision, offering a soft, harmonious surface in both matte and anti-slip finishes. Sleek yet organic, it bridges the worlds of technology and geology in spaces that balance warmth and sophistication.
These featured products were recognized in IIDA’s 2024 WestEdge Design Fair Product Awards and the 2025 IIDA/HD Expo Product Design Awards—competitions that celebrate innovation, aesthetics, and purpose in design. Think your work belongs on this list? Explore IIDA competitions and submission details at iida.org/submissions.