Paris Design Award 2020
Winner

The DESK MMXX II was awarded the Paris Design Awards in 2020 and additionally received the “Grand Prix Winner – Product of the Year” distinction for the best product design of the year.

The design emerged from a fundamental question of working: How can a place be created where thoughts can be developed in a focused way without being continuously overlaid by objects, technology, and visual noise?

The work follows a deliberately reduced architectural order. The desk appears as a simple geometric volume in which all functions are integrated. Working tools, cables, technical devices, and documents disappear within the body of the object and remain directly accessible beneath the extendable writing surface. What remains visible is primarily the empty working surface itself.

This emptiness is not understood as absence, but as a prerequisite for concentration. Ideas gain presence against the calm background of the object. Design therefore does not serve the self-representation of the furniture piece, but supports thinking, drawing, and working.

The design connects to the attitude that architecture should serve as a background for life. Architecture and design should not constantly demand attention, but create spaces that enable clarity, calmness, and conscious perception.

The international award also points to the growing relevance of reduced and material-oriented design approaches within contemporary design discourse. The focus is not on decorative complexity, but on precision, use, and spatial atmosphere.

Among the other category winners of the Paris Design Awards was also the artist Ai Weiwei.

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