Lauren Rottet, FAIA, FIIDA, internationally celebrated architect, designer, founding principal/president and owner of Rottet Studio, was presented with the prestigious Prize Designs for Modern Furniture + Lighting® Award from Global Design News and The Chicago Athenaeum for her Rottet Collection 2023 Seating and Bed range. She claimed additional honors from the Swiss-based SIT Furniture Design Awards for the Ovo Mirrors and Willow Table as well as accolades from Houston’s 2024 Paper City Design Awards. “I am thrilled to receive both national and international recognition for my product designs,” said Rottet.
Originally founded by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1959, the Prize Designs program has been relaunched seven decades later by Global Design News in tandem with The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. It was conceived to encourage the best of contemporary design. The jury convened in June and selected over 70 new designs worthy of the Prize from over 24 nations.
Rottet Collection’s 2023 Seating range emphasizes the manipulation of light and materials (Light and Space Artists) and form (Cubist Artists), themes that Rottet continues to champion. Featured award winners include; Montauk Float Chair, inspired by the unobstructed views of the George Nelson House in Montauk, the chair appears to hover above its bent acrylic base; New Canaan Lounge Chair, highlighting the site of Philip Johnson’s Glass House, and composed of an acrylic base with a stainless-steel frame; Comice Chair inspired by a shapely pear frame constructed of solid wood and accented with a metal band around the base of the seat cushion; and the Wood Float Chair, crafted from solid walnut. Also celebrated, Rottet’s Bed Collection launched with DUXIANA, including the Essex Bed.
Rottet’s introductions for 2024 including her Cake Lamp (right), and Luminosa Screen – along with the New Canaan Lounge Chair and other 2023 seating introductions – all received accolades from her hometown of Houston in the 2024 Paper City Design Awards. “A fun way to bring task lighting to those spaces that are often hard to reach,” one of the judges was quoted saying. The annual awards attract the best of Houston’s talent, highlighting architecture, interiors and product design.
The Rottet Collection can be viewed at the Rottet Collection Showroom, 29 West 30th St., 6th Floor, New York, N.Y. For an appointment, call 1-866-400-4777. www.rottetcollection.com.
