Since 1989, every year a former Penninghen graduate is selected for the Met de Penninghen Design Award, chosen for their outstanding work within the Interior Architecture and Art Direction Design sectors. This award, given out during the Master Degree ceremony each year, rewards graduates for their innovative projects often working with prestigious brands, to create ground-breaking and original design solutions that clearly demonstrate their creative, unique and successful design approach.
Met de Penninghen 2017 Design Award in Artistic Direction
Stéphanie Di Giusto
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This year the Art Direction award was given to Stéphanie Di Giusto (1997 graduate), for her first feature film La Danseuse, presented in the Official Selection of the Un certain regard category at the Cannes Film festival in 2016. After creating music videos, followed by a pro-motional film for the fashion brand Vanessa Bruno, she launched her filmmaking career, with the help and encouragement of her former teacher and photographer Agnés Propeck.
Met de Penninghen 2017 Design Award in Interior Architecture
Tristan Auer
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This year the Interior Architecture award was given to Tristan Auer (1996 graduate) for the quality of his internationally recognized architectural projects that have been commended for their sophistication and originality. From the new interior design concept of the legendary Paris nightclub Les Bains-Douche or luxury space design projects for Cartier, he began his career working for Philippe Starck and Christian Liaigre. He now works with the architecture agency Wilson, specializing in high-end residences and boutique hotels, and recently created the new interior design concept for Hotel Crillon that reopened this summer. He was also named Designer of the year 2017 by Maison&Objet international home decor, interior design and architecture event.
Le prix Met de Penninghen 2015
Prix Met de Penninghen 2015 - Art Direction
Sophie Bramly and Cléo Charuet - Walk This Way
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Walk This Way is a book presenting a series of photographs taken by Sophie Bramly while she was living in New York City from 1981 to 1984, when she witnessed the emergence of the Hip Hop scene. She photographed rising stars of this culture, such as D.St, Afrika Bambaataa, Keith Haring, Run-DMC, Fab Five Freddy, and many others… This project also reunites two graduates from two different generations: Sophie Bramly graduated in 1980 and Cléo Charuet - who signed the artistic direction and design of the book and the portfolios, graduated in 1996. ESAG, since the Académie Julian days, has always always anchored itself in art history and culture, which Hip-Hop is part of.
Prix Met de Penninghen 2015 - Interior architecture
Raphaël Crespin - One Main
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Raphael Crespin graduated from ESAG in 2002 and is specialised in Architecture and Computational Design, developing new emergent digital approaches in contemporary architecture. He also has a strong international background; working as a Postdoc Researcher for Singapore University of Technology and Design and in association with MIT for the International Design Center. He was awarded for this project, in collaboration with the Boston-based dECOi architecture company, to design the penthouse offices of an investment group in a green building that combines sustainably forested materials with new digital technology. The result was a highly innovative streamlined interior space, incorporating social and technical functions within a sustainable design environment.
