Archigraphica with Vela Wall Unit wins the Archiproducts Design Awards 2025
Archigraphica with Vela Wall Unit, designed by Gabriele Centazzo, has won the Archiproducts Design Award 2025 in the Kitchen category. Following the 2024 recognition for Artematica + New Logica, we confirm once again our ability to combine formal rigor, technological innovation, and material sensitivity. This result reaffirms the continuity of a coherent vision in constant evolution.
The award, announced last night at Superstudio Più in Milan, celebrates our excellence in redefining the paradigms of the contemporary kitchen.
Now in their tenth edition, the Archiproducts Design Awards (ADA) are an international benchmark for design culture. Established in 2016 and promoted by Archiproducts—one of the leading digital platforms dedicated to architecture and design—the ADA aim to spotlight the excellences that improve quality of living through new ideas, materials, and production processes.
Each year, a jury of world-renowned architects, designers, artists, and creative directors evaluates hundreds of entries from around the globe. The selected products stand out for their forward-looking interpretation of contemporary design, recognizing excellence, sustainability, and research as the foundations of innovation.
With Archigraphica, Gabriele Centazzo explores the architectural dimension of wood, treating it not as a mere cladding but as a structural, living material that generates form. The project introduces a three-dimensional graphic motif that runs across the fronts like a perspectival drawing, evoking a building façade. A solid walnut profile wraps the sides and worktop, becoming both an aesthetic and functional detail—a slim handle perfectly integrated into the geometry of the composition.
The essence of Archigraphica lies in its balance between material and language, between natural warmth and constructive precision. The project becomes an architecture for living, where drawing is not ornament but structure, and matter becomes the expression of design thinking.
The composition is completed by the Vela Wall Unit, which reinterprets the idea of opening through a fluid, silent movement. The lightness of the gesture and the purity of the form meet in a balance that defines a new idea of aesthetic functionality.
It is a project that speaks of memory and contemporaneity, of respect for material and formal freedom. An exercise in synthesis that underscores Valcucine's ability to integrate innovation and craftsmanship into a coherent, timeless design language.
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Jury panel of the Archiproducts Design Awards 2025
The international jury of the Archiproducts Design Awards 2025 brings together authoritative voices from architecture, interior and product design, creative direction, and the visual arts. From luxury hospitality to computational design, from color to photography, the panel spans a broad and inclusive horizon.
Among leading interior figures are Claudia Afshar, founder of her namesake Los Angeles studio, from Italy, AMDL CIRCLE, led by Michele De Lucchi's team; designer and art director Giulio Cappellini; and interior designer Daniele Daminelli, founder of Studio 2046. longside them, Dubai Design Week director Natasha Carella and the Milan-based duo Quincoces-Dragò offer a cross-disciplinary perspective on the relationship between brand, project, and culture. From Australia comes Melissa Bright, co-funder of Studio Bright, while the U.S. is represented by architect Michael Chen K. (MKCA) and Matthew Grzywinski, co-founder of Grzywinski+Pons.
The jury also includes leading figures in international architecture: Francine Houben, founder of Mecanoo; Giorgos Karampelas, creative director of k-studio; Yama Karim, partner of Studio Libeskind; Pitsou Kedem, head of his eponymous studio; Japan's Satoshi Kurosaki, founder of APOLLO Architects; and Jakob Lange, partner and Head of Product Design di BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group. From Europe, i29 and Norm Architects, contribute a poised, materially aware design ethos.
On the product and creative direction front, the panel features Mike Holland, Senior Partner and Head of Industrial Design in Foster + Partners; Gabriele Chiave, now VP Global Creative Direction Design & Innovation at ELC and creative director of Controvento; Christophe de la Fontaine, designer and co-founder of Dante – Goods and Bads; Flavien Servaes, Head of Product Design at Vincent Van Duysen Architects; and Lucia Mantero, Owner and Product Management Director of Mantero Seta. From the digital and experimental realm, standouts include Tim Fu, a pioneer of AI-aided design, and colourist-photographer Tekla Evelina Severin.
The outlook further expands to the dialogue between design and the arts. Llisa Demetrios, Chief Curator of the Eames Institute, brings the legacy of Californian Modernism; Eligo Studio embodies Milan's curatorial and project-driven spirit; multimedia creative Pilar Zeta bridges art and digital imaginaries; Brazilian architect Juliana Lima Vasconcellos connects interiors, residences, and hospitality; and Chinese designer-entrepreneur Li Xiang (X+Living) reflects on experiential retail. Rounding out the panel are designer Tiziano Guardini, Nils Becker (Designheroes) and Keiji Ashizawa, a Japanese designer who unites craftsmanship and minimalism.
Alongside the main jury, contributors include Mario Cucinella (MCA and founder of SOS – School of Sustainability), the duo Formafantasma, Carlo Ratti (Carlo Ratti Associati), Ursula Tischner (econcept), Baillie Mishler (PROWL Studio) and Zehao Liu (Solaris Community).
