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EXECUTIONAL

Best Use of Colour

LAS CHICAS, LOS CHICOS Y LOS MANIQUÍS

BY EL EQUIPO CREATIVO

originality of colour usage: why pink, purple,

blue, yellow, jet black (!) or many shades of

green here, of all places? ‘Colour is such a

loaded thing,’ said Hermès collection man-

ager Benoit Steenackers.

Maos Design consistently employed

a green-greener-greenest colour palette in

the Nimman Spa in Shanghai. It charmed

the jury members, but they had doubts

about the universal value of precisely these

shades of green in a relaxing environment

• ‘it could have been a bit more tropical’
  and ‘this kind of green signals “healthcare”
  in the West’. Nosigner’s Zenblack Garden
  awed the group, but the social activist
  could hardly expect to be victorious in this
  context. ‘Black is the absence of colour,’ said

Masquespacio’s Ana Milena Hernández

Palacios. The unanimous winner? El Equipo

Creativo’s design for restaurant Las Chicas,

Los Chicos y Los Maniquís in Madrid. ‘A

distinctive and effective use of primary col-

ours in line with the story behind the inte-

rior design. Kudos for the bright-red bar in

exactly the right shade of lipstick red,’ said

jury member Sabine Marcelis, who praised

the Catalan design studio for the level of

detailing as well as the subtle diamond

references in the interior that probably only

locals will recognize and understand. – AO

elequipocreativo.com

PEOPLE'S VOTE

XYZ Formula by WGNB

MADRID – Determining which design
studio has best used the power of colour in
its interiors is tricky. By which criterion?
The atmosphere? Narrative character? The
significance of the selected colour palette to
the space? Can something else, like a print
or a material, create the same effect as the
colour? Are the colours surprising, bold,
distracting, or perhaps unnecessarily excit-
ing in relation to the function of the space?
(Nominees in this particular category ranged
from spa to restaurant, shop, educational
centre and office space.)
Colourful interiors abound this year.
Colour incarnate herself, jury member and
Studio Wood founder Bethan Laura Wood
was primarily interested in the relevance and

Jury member Sabine Marcelis commended

El Equipo Creativo for its ‘distinctive and

effective use of primary colours in line

with the story behind the interior design’

of Las Chicas, Los Chicos y Los Maniquís.

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