Melbourne’s Adam Cornish has been honoured at the 2014 New York Design Awards taking out first prize in the homewares category for the Trinity bowl.
Designed for Italian based company Alessi, the Trinity bowl is based on Cornish’s own research into the lightweight structure of the Nautilus shell.
“Each year the Nautilus adds an extra chamber to its shell, a process that eventually forms a beautiful spiralled structure that is strong yet very light in weight,” he says. “My aim was to create a hybrid product that was not only visually inspired by nature, but also a product that uses the inherent logic of nature.”
Cornish was also selected to showcase his designs at the WantedDesign 2014 exhibition as part of the Alessi Research Lab initiative held in conjunction with New York Design Week.
Pieces at the exhibition focused on specific topics with their research related to each work also on show. They included designs from research in the working of metal wire by Pauline Deltour and LED lighting by Giovanni Alessi Anghini.
