One chair, three awards in four years: CMP's Malmö

Juries rarely agree three times about the same object, and almost never in three different countries. It happened to Cazzaniga Mandelli Pagliarulo: one of their armchairs, Malmö, took the Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Award in 2012, the Red Dot in 2013 and a German Design Award special mention in 2015. The three met at the Politecnico di Milano and signed as CMP from 2010 to 2025; their stated method is to materialise visual connections between objects of the past, objects of popular culture and natural elements, then simplify them through a three-way conversation until a concept becomes plain and timeless.

The same signature runs through Nolita, Folk, Osaka and Nym for Pedrali. La Mercanti specifies them where a chair has to survive a decade of daily use and still look deliberate.