“Sipario” by Ellen Bernhardt is the winning project of the eighth edition of the Cristalplant® Design Contest, which this year has been promoted in collaboration with Elica, world leader in the design and manufacture of home cooker hoods.
“Skyline” by Simone Bonanni and Attila Veress and “Sale&Pepe” by Francesco Meneghello and Davide Lanfranco were assigned the jury’s honourable mention. Ellen Bernhardt, a young German-born designer, stood out amongst the about 2,000 participants with a project that seized both the technical and technological peculiarities of Cristalplant Biobased and the style of Elica, a company with a well-defined culture and character.
The concept of Sipario (“curtains”in Italian),a vertical cooker hood in moulded Cristalplant®, is inspired by the sinuous movement of the curtains of the traditional Italian theatre and gives it its distinguishing dynamic feature. The prototype remains suspended on the wall to conceal the technological elements of the hood, enhance the most central part of the kitchen and softly illuminate the space.
The project was premiered within the "Variations" installation by Elisa Ossino, in collaboration with File Under Pop, along with the collection of Cristalplant cooker hoods presented by Elica at Eurocucina 2016 during Milan Design Week.