Shortlisted Work
Convento
Designer by
Franco Chimento
Argentina
Product Design
The VAND Perspective
This work was selected for its exceptional mastery of Meaningful Silence. It successfully balances human-centered functionality with a visual language that reduces noise and enhances clarity.
In an era of digital saturation, this project stands as a quiet rebellion; it does not compete for attention but commands it through precision and restraint. By stripping away the superfluous, the design invites a deeper engagement, proving that intentional absence can be the most profound presence.
The Creative Intent
Convento is a lighting line developed from an integral project carried out by the studio Acorde & Co. as part of the visual identity and signage design for Arteba, Argentina’s leading contemporary art fair. The system uses translucent polypropylene recovered as discarded material, originally employed in the fair’s signage. Intervention is minimal: straight cuts, rounded edges, and a clean assembly that preserves the material’s original condition. The project took shape while Acorde & Co. temporarily set up its studio in the Monasterio de Santa Catalina de Siena (Monastery of Saint Catherine of Siena), an eighteenth-century building located in the historic center of Buenos Aires. Siena and Catalina translate the calm of that environment—the quiet of its corridors and the white presence of its plaster walls—into a family of lighting pieces. The luminaires reflect these qualities through vertical polypropylene bodies that produce a soft, continuous light, supported by ABS bases that ensure precision and stability. Reusing materials from the fair allows for an efficient and direct process, without unnecessary transformations and guided by simplicity as a core value. Smooth to the eye and to the touch, these columns of light merge into their surroundings like a floating body, a suspended spirit.
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