We are very honoured to let you know that Monica Förster Design Studio has been awarded one of Europes most prestigious design awards “AW Designer of The Year 2023” by AW Architektur & Wohnen.
Germany’s leading magazine for living, design and architecture from Hamburg’s Jahreszeiten publishing house, honours the Swedish designer, whose goal is to solve concrete problems with her designs, with this internationally renowned award. Monica Förster always asks “why” in her designs, she thinks on different levels and combines craftsmanship with innovative materials.
Monica Förster was born in Stockholm in 1966 and grew up in Lapland, her mother’s homeland. Her German father was a well-known chef and one of the pioneers of the New Nordic Cuisine. After school Monica Förster didn’t stay in the provinces, she moved back to her native city, studied at Konstfack and Beckmans College of Design before opening her own studio in 1999. She says: “I could have been a scientist or an artist, but in the end my experiments with all kinds of materials led me to product design.”
With innovative projects such as the “Silikon” lamp for David Design and “Cloud”, an inflatable room for Snowcrash (later Offecct), Monica Förster achieved her international breakthrough. Since then, she has not only worked as a designer for well-known brands such as Wittmann, Zanotta, Poltrona Frau, Tacchini, Erik Jørgensen, Georg Jensen, Svenskt Tenn and Rörstrand, but has also been the art director for the Bosnian family company Zanat since 2015.
AW Architektur & Wohnen has presented the AW Designer of The Year award annually since 1997. The award goes to designers who have shaped the style of our time in the field of design with their work. Before Monica Förster, Achille Castiglioni (1997), Ingo Maurer (1998), Konstantin Grcic (2007), Patricia Urquiola (2012), Alessandro Mendini (2017), Piero Lissoni (2021) and Stefan Diez (2022) were among those who received the award.
AW dedicates a major feature to Monica Förster in issue no. 1 this year.
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