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Compasso d'Oro

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Compasso d'Oro
Compasso d'Oro logo
Awarded forIndustrial design award
LocationADI Design Museum (Milan)
CountryItaly
Presented byAssociazione per il Disegno Industriale
First awarded1954
Websiteadidesignmuseum.org

The Compasso d'Oro (Italian pronunciation: [komˈpasso ˈdɔːro]; 'Golden Compass') is an industrial design award originated in Italy in 1954. Initially sponsored by the La Rinascente, a Milanese department store, the award has been organised and managed by the Associazione per il Disegno Industriale (ADI) since 1964. The Compasso d'Oro is the first, and among the most recognized and respected design awards. It aims to acknowledge and promote quality in its field in Italy and internationally, and has been called both the "Nobel" and the "Oscar" of design.[1][2][3][4][5]

Compasso d'Oro award trophy

History

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La Rinascente Compasso d'Oro, Edition III, Milan 1956 (Paolo Monti photograph)
Pier Giacomo Castiglioni receives the Compasso d'Oro for the Luminator floor lamp designed for Gilardi & Barzaghi (1955)[6]
Franca Helg and Franco Albini receive the award for their work on the Milan Metro (1964)[7]

The Compasso d′Oro was established in 1954, and now it is the highest honour in the field of industrial design in Italy,[8] comparable to other prestigious international awards such as the Good Design award, iF Design Award, Red Dot Award, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards, and the Good Design Award (Japan). It was the first award of its kind in Europe and soon took on an international dimension and relevance, multiplying the occasions on which the exhibitions of award-winning objects were held in Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan.

The original idea for the award is credited to Gio Ponti and Alberto Rosselli [it]. Many other leading architects and designers of the era including the Castiglioni brothers (Livio, Pier Giacomo, and Achille), Albe Steiner [it], Enzo Mari and Marco Zanuso were involved in aspects of its inception and early development.[1][9] The Compasso d'Oro logo (designed by Steiner) and award trophy itself invoke a drafting compass invented by Adalbert Göringer in 1893 to measure the Golden Section.[1][10]

At present the management department of the Compasso d'Oro is Italy Industrial Designing Association, and it is also the members of the International Industrial Designing Committee and the European Designing Bureau.[citation needed]

Since its inception, approximately 350 designers have been honoured with the Award,[1] for designs covering a wide range – from automobiles and bicycles to furniture and household objects, portable sewing machines, typewriters, calculators, clocks, lighting as well as concepts and systems, technical equipment, and yachts.[citation needed]

For the first time, the 2020 Compasso d'Oro included a "Products Career Award" which was given to three historical designs that have proven to be highly successful over time but were not awarded at the time of their inception: a 1962 floor lamp called Arco by Pier Giacomo and Achille Castiglioni; a bed design by Vico Magistretti from 1978 called "Nahalie"; and the now famous "Sacco" bean-bag chair designed by Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini, and Franco Teodoro in 1968.[11]

The ADI Design Museum in Milan houses the historical collection of the ADI Compasso d’Oro Foundation, as well as temporary exhibitions, public talks and initiatives.[12] On 22 April 2004, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism – through its Superintendency for Lombardy – declared the collection of "exceptional artistic and historical interest", thus making it part of the national cultural heritage.[13][14] In 2020, the Milan square where the ADI Design Museum is situated was renamed "Piazza Compasso d'Oro" to honour the cultural and historical significance of the award.[15][16]

List of Compasso d'Oro Awards

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See also: Category:Compasso d'Oro Award recipients
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
Year Jury President Entries Winners
1st 1954 Aldo Bassetti, Cesare Brustio, Gio Ponti, Alberto Rosselli [it], Marco Zanuso 5700 15
2nd 1955 Aldo Bassetti, Cesare Brustio, E. N. Rogers, Alberto Rosselli, Marco Zanuso 1300 12
3rd 1956 Aldo Bassetti, Cesare Brustio, Franco Albini, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Alberto Rosselli Alberto Rosselli (Birth of the ADI) 1450 9
4th 1957 Aldo Bassetti, Cesare Brustio, Franco Albini, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Ignazio Gardella Giulio Castelli 1200 5
5th 1959 Bruno Alfieri, Vico Magistretti, Giulio Minoletti [it], Augusto Morello, Giovanni Romano Livio Castiglioni 1200 6
6th 1960 Ludovico Belgiojoso, Vico Magistretti, Augusto Magnaghi, Augusto Morello, Marco Zanuso Franco Albini 800 10
7th 1962 Giulio Castelli, Franco Momigliano, Augusto Morello, Bruno Munari, Battista Pininfarina Roberto Olivetti 9
8th 1964 Massimo Vignelli, Dante Giacosa, Vittorio Gregotti, Augusto Morello, Bruno Munari, Gino Valle [it] Aldo Basetti 6
9th 1967 Aldo Basetti, Felice Dessi, Gillo Dorfles, Tomás Maldonado, Edoardo Vittoria Marco Zanuso 13
10th 1970 Francesco Mazzucca, Franco Albini, Jean Baudrillard, Achille Castiglioni, Federico Correa, Vittorio Gregotti, Roberto Guiducci, Albe Steiner[17] Anna Castelli Ferrieri 10
11th 1979 Andrea Branzi, Clino Trini Castelli, Massimo Morozzi, Angelo Cortesi, Gillo Dorfles, Augusto Morello, Arthur Pulos, Yuri Soloviev, Nanni Strada Enzo Mari 1167 39
12th 1981 François Barrè, Cesare De Seta, Martin Kelm, Ugo La Pietra, Pierluigi Spadolini Rodolfo Bonetto 16
13th 1984 Cino Boeri, Douglas Kelley, Antti Nurmesniemi, Giotto Stoppino, Bruno Zevi Giotto Stoppino 11
14th 1987 Angelo Cortesi, Rodolfo Bonetto, Marino Marini, Cara Mc Carty, Philippe Starck Angelo Cortesi 16
15th 1989 Pierliugi Molinari, Fredrik Wildhagen, Hans Wichmann, Cesare Stevan, Tomás Maldonado Pierluigi Molinari 12
16th 1991 Silvio Ceccato, Marcello Inghilesi, Victor Margolin, Pierluigi Molinari, Antti Nurmesniemi, Vito Noto Angelo Cortesi 14
17th 1994 Dante Giacosa, Vittoriano Viganò, Giovanni Anceschi, Paola Antonelli, Uta Brandes, Jacob Gantenbein, Marja Heemskerk, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Marco Migliari, Gianemiglio Monti, Mario Trimarchi, Vito Noto Augusto Morello 13
18th 1998 Achille Castiglioni, Giuseppe De Rita, Marianne Frandsen, Fritz Frenkler, Sadik Karamustafa, Tomás Maldonado, Marco Zanuso Augusto Morello 15
19th 2001 Marie-Laure Jousset, Filippo Alison, François Burkhardt, Omar Calabrese, Francisco Jarauta, Maurizio Morgantini, Erik Spiekermann Giancarlo Iliprandi 17
20th 2004 Tomas Maldonado, Fulya Erdemci, Robert Fitzpatrick, Yutaka Mino, Pietro Petraroia, Richard Sapper, Angela Schönberger, Tomàš Vlček Carlo Forcolini 15
21st 2008 Mario Bellini, Moh-Jin Chew, Lieven Daenens, Carla Di Francesco, Carlo Forcolini, Norbert Linke, Emanuele Pirella, Richard R. Whitaker, Miguel Milá 12
22nd 2011 Arturo Dell'Acqua Bellavitis, Chantal Clavier Hamaide, Umberto Croppi, Guto Indio Da Costa, Pierre Keller [fr], Cecilie Manz, Clive Roux, Shiling Zheng 22
23rd 2014 Anders Byriel, Vivian Cheng, Giorgio De Ferrari, Stefan Diez, Defne Koz, Mario Gagnon, Paolo Lomazzi, Laura Traldi 23[18]
24th 2016 Gabriella Bottini, Toshiyuki Kita, Mugendi K. M’Rithaa, Marc Sadler, Cinzia Anguissola d’Altoè Scacchetti, Yossef Schvetz, Walter Maria de Silva
25th 2018 Carlo Galimberti, Nevio Di Giusto, Yongqi Lu, Francesco Trabucco, Motoki Yoshio Francesco Trabucco
26th 2020 Luca Bressan, Virginio Briatore, Jin Kuramoto, Denis Santachiara [it], Päivi Tahkokallio Denis Santachiara 18
27th 2022 Mario Cucinella [it], Stefano Micelli [it], Cloe Piccoli, Annachiara Sacchi, Mirko Zardini Annachiara Sacchi 292 20[19]
28th 2024 Maria Cristina Didero, Luciano Galimberti, Francisco Gomez Paz [es], Renata Cristina Mazzantini, Toshiyuki Kita[2] Luciano Galimberti 20[20]
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See also

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References

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  5. ^ Celeste, Sofia (2024-06-21). "Rei Kawakubo, Architect Piero Lissoni Honored at Design Oscars". WWD. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
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