Philippe Grohe (center), Head of the Axor designer brand of Hansgrohe AG, accepts the prestigious “red dot: best of the best” award in the category Product Design.
Top performer: Hansgrohe AG honored with internationally renowned “red dot: best of the best 2008” awardSchiltach/Essen, July 2008. At a ceremony at the Aalto Theater in Essen, Hansgrohe AG was presented with this year’s “red dot: best of the best” award for outstanding design. With the award, the international 24-member jury recognized the merits of the wash basin mixer in the new “Axor Citterio M” bathroom collection made by the fixtures and shower specialist from Schiltach. This bathroom collection, developed in collaboration with the Milan-based star architect Antonio Citterio (with Toan Nguyen), already won two iF Gold Awards in the spring of this year. The Design Center North Rhine Westphalia, the organizers of the internationally re-nowned competition for the “red dot”, only gave 50 of the “best of the best” awards again in 2008. Some 1,253 businesses from 51 countries competed for this prestigious prize with a total of 3,203 submissions. “This award,” enthused Philippe Grohe, head of the designer brand Axor at Hansgrohe, during the award ceremony, “is something very special for Hansgrohe AG as one of the design pioneers in the sanitary industry. It recognizes our achievements in terms of the design of our products and of the bathroom as a whole as part of our living space. It endorses our strategy of emphasizing formal and emotional qualities as well as providing our customers with the highest standard in terms of functionality. Thanks to our close collaboration with experienced top architects and designers such as Antonio Citterio, we continue to successfully break new ground and play an active role in the design of the bathroom of the future.”
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