The "Product Design" category of the 2009 Sachsen Design Prize, as announced in Dresden Wednesday evening, produced a somewhat curious result: no winner but two second places. Which aside from being ridiculous is a real slap in the face for the product design community in Sachsen. For those who don't know we live in Sachsen,; learned our trade here; took the knocks, got back up and tried again here. The region is branded on every part of our bodies and our souls. And we now where the
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Giorgio by Peter Horn is the chair that almost never was. Having commissioned Horn to create a stackable multi-function chair, the finished design lay for two years in the archive of Stuttgart based designer furniture producer Richard Lampert - in short, although convinced of the quality of the chair, Lampert saw that particular market segment as too crowded. After all how many chair designs does the world need? And so the story would have ended had not one day a request for help not been
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