HeartFelt, a design collaboration between Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Hunter Douglas, has won in the Product Design category of the Red Dot Award 2017. HeartFelt is a modular linear felt ceiling system with design and sustainability qualities made with Cradle to Cradle-certified felt.
The Red Dot Award is an international design recognition dating back more than sixty years. This year, the award attracted more than 5,500 submissions from 54 countries. A jury of 40 independent designers, design professors and journalists evaluated the entries, nominating winners of the award.
“We came across the idea of using felt as a ceiling material due to its sound absorption qualities”, says Founding Partner Bjarne Hammer. “Schmidt Hammer Lassen approached collaborator Hunter Douglas, and the process of bringing a ceiling solution to market began.”
“Felt is like a textile and its texture awakens the senses. Together with Hunter Douglas, we aimed to transform the felt material into a ceiling solution that would provide not only improved acoustics but also an aesthetic that could appeal to both architects, interior designers and end-users. We also wanted to design a product that was sustainable, a solution that can be used and re-used.”
In addition to its aesthetic qualities, felt has functional qualities for interior architecture, such as light reflection and sound absorption. The felt used for HeartFelt is Cradle to Cradle-certified, making it the kind of sustainable solution architects are looking for. The modular system of felt panels offers designers design possibilities; they can play around with panel size, joint width, mounting height and color. HeartFelt conforms to all the required building certifications and the European Indoor Environmental Standard (EN 15251) making the ceiling system suited to offices and other functional properties, schools and healthcare facilities. The linear felt ceiling panels that comprise HeartFelt are made of non-woven, thermoformed PES fibers. No finishing coat is applied, making the panels 100 percent recyclable. The aluminum carriers and galvanized steel hangers are also 100 percent recyclable.
Product Design of Felt Ceiling System Wins Red Dot Award
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