Awards

2024 Winner, Prize Designs for Modern Furniture + Lighting® Award Global Design News and The Chicago Athenaeum 2024 for his armchair SKETCH

2024 Winner, Prize Designs for Modern Furniture + Lighting® Award Global Design News and The Chicago Athenaeum 2024 for his armchair PLANKS

2024 Winner, Winner in the Home Office furniture section of the SIT Furniture Design Award 2024 with Stackable Storage containers TOTEM.

2024 Nominated, by the BIG SEE Curators for the BIG SEE Product Design Award 2024

2024 Finalist, Swiss Pavilion 2025 for Pro Helvetia, with Samoa Henny, Nina Huppi, Amalia Bonsack, Patrick Gosatti

2020 Winner, SIT 2020 Awards, Sketch Armchair.

2018  Shortlisted, Pape Bird Observation Tower, Latvia

2017  Finalist, pro Helvetia Swiss Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, 2018

2016  Silver Medal, Holzpixel, Designers Saturday, Langenthal 2016, Switzerland, with BFH

2016  Finalist, Singapore (FDA) Furniture Design Award, 2017

2016  Nominated, Singapore (FDA) Furniture Design Award, 2016

2015  Nominated, Gwangju/ Designboom International Design Biennale, Seoul 2015

2015  Top 100, Design Intelligence Award, Hangzhou, China

2015  Nominated Design Intelligence Award, Hangzhou, China

2014  Finalist, Better Living Challenge, South Africa, with BFH

2013  Nominated, Design preis Schweiz, switzerland, Flexplypavilion with BFH

2013  Finalist, Architecture of Necessity Award, Sweden Flexplypavilion with BFH

2012  1. prize, International Charente Pavilion Competition, France Flexplypavilion BFH

2012  Gold Award, Materialica Deisgn + Technology Award 2012, Munich, Germany

2012  Honourable Mention, Andreu World 12th International Design Contest, Valencia, Spain

2012  Finalist, Homeless Design Competition 2012, Milano, Italy

2011  Acknowledgement Prize, Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction, Africa / Middle east, Casablanca, Morocco

2009  Shortlisted, Designboom & Macef Beyond Silver Design competition, Milan, Italy

2009  Selected Design, “oasis” Design Forum, Interzum Köln, Becker, Brackel, Germany

2008  Finalist, Asahikawa International Furniture Design Competition. Japan

2007  Shortlisted, Designboom + de Padova International Design Competition 2007, Milano, Italy

2007  Shortlisted, Design Preis Schweiz, Langenthal, Switzerland

2006  Runner up Tokyo Lights International Design Competition, Tokyo, Japan                                                           

2002   Third Prize. Zingg-Lamprecht International Design Competition, Zürich, Switzerland

2002   Special Mention, Design Report Award 2002, Milan International Furniture Fair,  Milan, Italy

2002   Shortlist, Oxo / Peugot Design Awards 2002, London, England

2001   First Prize, Oxo / Peugot design Awards 2001, London, England

2001   First prize,  Traffic Conzept for Wetzikon, Switzerland

2001   Semi Finalist, Design Preis Schweiz.  Langenthal, Switzerland

2000  Finalist. Lichtblicke 2000. Messe Basel.  Basel, Switzerland

1999  First Prize, Deutsche Bank Munich, Germany

1999  Third prize.  L’heure publique,   La Chaux-de-Fonds Switzerland

1999  Finalist Wohnsinn 99. Messe Basel   Basel, Switzerland

1998  Second Prize. International Cosmopack Award 98. Milan, Italy

1998  Finalist. Concorso Internazionale di Design Comune di Cascina, Italy

1997  Semi-finalist iF Ecology Design Award 97   Hannover, Germany

1996  Commendation International Cosmopack Award 96   Mailand, Italy

1996  Finalist Lapponia. The Art Competition for Modern Jewellery Design. Finnland

1995  Finalist GHM Designale Cologne, Germany

1995  Distinction. iFi Nagoya International Competition Nagoja, Japan

1995  Finalist  4. Nürnberger Möbeldesign Kontakte 95 Nürnberg, Germany

1995  Third prize. International Cosmopack Award 95 Mailand, Italy

1994  Finalist Nagaoka Design Fair 94 Nagaoka, Japan

1994  Finalist ECO Design Europe 94  Brüssel, Belgium

1994  Fourth prize. Philips Lichtpreis 94  Wien, Austria

1993  Semifinalist Swiss Design Prize 93  Solothurn, Switzerland

1993 Distinction. SMI Förderpreis 93  Swiss Furniture International

1993 Finalist Japan Design Foundation 93 Nagoja, Japan