The Jardín collection has received the Red Dot Award 2023 in the category Product Design.
Jardín is a tribute to Clara Porset, the Cuban-born designer who lived in Mexico. Intellectually and politically engaged, she was a close collaborator of famous architect Luis Barragán.
Paola Lenti has interpreted in a contemporary key some of the furnishings – two lounge chairs and a sun bed – that Clara Porset designed for the Pierre Marqués hotel in Acapulco in 1957 and later exhibited at the XI Triennale di Milano, where they were awarded a silver medal.
The original wicker weaves have been updated with the exclusive Twiggy cord, a high performing outdoor material, which is long lasting, waterproof and 100% recyclable. The structure, once in bentwood, is now in gloss-varnished aluminum, in a colour palette coordinated with the structural weave.
The design of the Jardín collection was made possible thanks to the recovery of the original drawings of the designer and the collaboration of professor Jorge A. Vadillo Lòpez, founder and curator of Archivo Clara Porset at the Centro de Investigaciones de Diseño Industrial of the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM).
The Red Dot Award is one of the most important and prestigious international accolades; it is given each year by a jury of experts to products and designers that stand out for innovation and quality.