Forum AID prize 2007 names Urquiola "the world's greatest female designer"

The Forum AID competition is the largest of its kind in northern Europe and
singles out the best that has been produced in the Nordic region during the past
year.
The Forum AID prize is awarded by the magazine Forum AID and is
comprised of three categories: A for architecture, I for interior design and D
for design.

Nine objects – three in each category – have been nominated by a jury consisting of Patricia Urquiola, Ellen van Loon and Johanna Grawunder, together with the chair Deyan Sudjic. At the site you can read a biography of each of them, including the reason to be included in the jury. I think that this is one of the most complete concise biographies of Urquiola that I have read - very nordic style. And the first one where Patricia Urquiola is definitely pointed as "the world's possibly greatest female designer right now":

Volcano, hurricane or blizzard – the descriptions of Patricia Urquiola are
pretty unanimous. It may be that her alleged temperament with its Basque heritage helped her to reach the position of the world’s possibly greatest female designer right now.

I have been following her achievements for the last 5 years and have no doubt about this qualification - they spread on work for numerous companies and in many areas of product design. And in all these years she has not had a failure and has not missed to surprise the audience with an ingenious idea or a totally unexpected application of a known material or technique. She was chosen by Fast Company 's list of "Fast 50"- the list of fifty people the magazine believes will change our lives over the next 10 years, but it was high time to receive this well-deserved qualification of being the world's greatest female designer for the moment.

Now the nominations for DESIGN:

Gubi II chair by Komplot Design/Denmark.Client: Gubi/Denmark

Log by Naoto Fukasawa/Japan.Client: Swedese/Sweden

North Tile by Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec/Frankrike.Client: Kvadrat/Denmark

Gubi II chair by Komplot Design: made from polyester fibre, a significant part of which has been extracted from used plastic water bottles and transformed into a felt material. In one single process two mats made from this felt are moulded around a steel tube frame, water cut – and the chair is ready for use.The combination of a straightforward look, great strength and easy maintenance, suit GUBI Chair II for both the private and the contract sector




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