December 18, 2006—The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design has distinguished Kimball Office with a Good Design Award for its Adagiato guest seating line. The Good Design awards honor products and industry leaders for excellent, competitive, and enduring product design.
Created by David Allan Pesso, Adagiato will be placed into the Museum’s permanent design collection.
The Chicago Athenaeum received hundreds of submissions, including designs for an airplane and a paper clip, from more than 25 countries for consideration. The jury selected approximately 200 products whose innovation, form, materials, construction, concept, function, and utility were worthy of design distinction.
Adagiato’s performance is differentiated by a refinement of geometry and proportion. Adagiato is generous in scale, offering a suspended seat for extra comfort and an increased back pitch for extra support, says the company. For more information, visit the Kimball Web site.
Good Design is one of the oldest and most important design competitions in the world, founded in Chicago in 1950 by Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr., with some of America’s most influential designers, including Charles and Ray Eames, and Eero Saarinen.
