BRASIL – The Salao Design Award, Brazil’s major furniture design award, has announced the selection of 104 projects for the final phase of this edition.

Over the past two weeks, technical and functional judges evaluated one by one the 827 projects entered by students and professionals from nine countries. The entries approved are from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.

In the final phase of the selection, held in January 2020, the finalists will send their full-size products to the city of Bento Gonçalves, where the organizer of the Salão Design Award, Sindmóveis, is headquarteredA new group of creative / aesthetic judges will be in charge of choosing the winners, namely critic, historian and design curator Adélia Borges;  architect, designer and cabinetmaker Fernando Mendes; award-winning designer, jury of numerous competitions, author and translator Freddy Van Camp; artist and designer Heloísa Crocco; the content director of Casa Vogue Taissa Buescu.

Sponsored by Berneck and Interprint do Brasil, the Salão Design Award has been organized by the Furniture Industry Association of Bento Gonçalves (Sindmóveis) since 1988. In this edition, the award will consist of R$ 10.000 for professionals and R$ 6.000 for students. The award ceremony and product exhibition will take place at Movelsul Brasil, in March 2020, in Bento Gonçalves. The winners will also participate in another exhibition next year, during the São Paulo Design Weekend.