Gold Trade Show · 2026
Nowy Styl Fair Stand
by Konarski and Bzowski Piotr Duraj
- Golden A' Design Award 2026 in Trade Show
- CLIENT: Konarski & Bzowski
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 33,336
- Verification code AAE3E84F8A · Verify this award
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About Nowy Styl Fair Stand
Nowy Styl is an exhibition stand created for the presentation of office furniture at a trade fair. The stand covers 607.5 square metres and follows biophilic design principles. Its layout is based on the metaphor of a tree, expressed through built objects. Fans produce a gentle breeze that animates the space, while warm lighting recalls sunlight passing through leaves. The design places human experience before direct selling. The intent is to show how a workplace can support well-being, reduce stress and improve focus.
About the Golden A' Design Award
Nowy Styl Fair Stand is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Nowy Styl Fair Stand is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Nowy Styl Fair Stand creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- For Orgatec 2024, Nowy Styl presented an anthropological experiment in workplace wellbeing. As a brand specializing in office furniture, the company aimed to showcase its products from an entirely new perspective. The radical concept addressed a fundamental human paradox — the simultaneous yearning for nature and the need for controlled environments. Despite technological progress, Nowy Styl recognized that people still crave a primal connection with the natural world.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The stand is 607,5 square metres.
- Tags
- fair, wellbeing, nature, personification, control, instinct
- Production Technology
- In our design process, we drew inspiration from the metaphor of a tree, manifesting this concept through the physical objects we created. To enhance immersion and create an otherworldly experience, we incorporated motion using fans, simulating a gentle breeze that animated the environment. This movement not only brought dynamism to our designs but also fostered a sense of tranquility.
The implementation of warm lighting was crucial in evoking the sensation of sunlight filtering through leaves. This strategic lighting choice added depth and warmth to the surroundings, enhancing the overall atmosphere. - Design Challenge
- Mind seeks comfort and patterns that can lean on, because it feels safe. Moment when we go beyond our comfort zone isn't pleasant, but only by doing so, we can grow. This project rejected trade fair norms twice over: first by involving non-design teams in creation, then by prioritizing human experience over hard selling. The stand didn't just showcase furniture; it demonstrated how workspaces could (and should) make us feel.
- Research
- Our design research for the Nowy Styl project was rooted in understanding the profound impact of urbanization on mental health and well-being. We utilized various design tools and technologies, including 3D modeling software, mood boards helped us curate materials and colors that resonate with nature. We also created a lot of mockup projects to ensure good quality and translation from idea to reality.
- Inspiration
- Inspiration for our project arose from the increasing disconnection from nature due to urbanization, impacting mental health and creativity. Focusing on biophilic design, we aimed to integrate natural elements to promote well-being, reducing stress and enhancing focus. We collaborate with AI paradoxically - became a creative process in which we needed to balance technology with our human intuition. Our task was to transform preliminary abstract visions into concrete, tangible solutions.
- Project Duration
- The project was designed in July and August 2024, and it's exhibited on Orgatec 2024 in Cologne, Germany.
- Operation Flow
- Focusing on the human experience through design not only improves employee retention and satisfaction but can also lead to better organizational outcomes due to motivated and engaged employees. Here, we created that perfect balance between the comfort of wilderness and unpredictability.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Michal Jaworski, Orgatec, 2024.
Image #2: Photographer Michal Jaworski, Orgatec, 2024.
Image #3: Photographer Michal Jaworski, Orgatec, 2024.
Image #4: Photographer Michal Jaworski, Orgatec, 2024.
Image #5: Photographer Michal Jaworski, Orgatec, 2024.
