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A highlight of NeoCon 2015 was the 2nd Annual Interior Design HIP at NeoCon Awards (Honoring Industry People and Product) held on Sunday, June 14, at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. Over 500 architects, designers and manufacturers gathered to celebrate commercial industry pioneers and achievements in product design and manufacturing. Designs by Mac Stopa won five HIP Awards for Design Solutions: one HIP Award for Move and three HIP Honoree Awards for River Stone, both products manufactured by Tonon. Mac also received a HIP Product Designer Honoree Award. Winners were on hand to accept their awards from host Cindy Allen, editor in chief of Interior Design magazine. The celebration continued on Tuesday at the HIP, HIP, Hooray party along the riverfront on the Merchandise Mart’s South Drive.

Another NeoCon 2015 highlight was the Best of NeoCon competition. Winners were announced on Monday, June 15, at an awards breakfast hosted by Contract magazine. Approximately 350 products in 42 categories were reviewed by 50 jurors over three days prior to the start of the show. Mosaico Digitale received a Best of NeoCon Gold Award for two designs in resin, including one design featuring a never-before-seen tessellating organic shaped tile with Trulli pattern, part of the Pebble Collection by Mac Stopa for Mosaico Digitale.

Mac Stopa, IIDA, is founder, chief architect and designer of Massive Design, an award-winning architectural design firm specializing in corporate interiors and public spaces as well as industrial design. An award-winning industrial designer, Mac designs furniture, lighting, flooring, fixtures, textiles, wallcovering and other interior products and finishes for serial production.

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DESIGNS BY MAC STOPA WIN FIVE HIP AWARDS AND A BEST OF NEOCON GOLD AWARD AT NEOCON 2015

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Heavy furniture in the living room as well as in hotel rooms, or even in the office, is not cool anymore. Designers and end users are looking for lighter, more organic shaped furniture. The console Move designed by Mac Stopa for Tonon gains attention in every location, offering both modernity and functionality with its wide room for storing essential items while maintaining an incredible lightness. Move is made in American walnut or oak veneered MDF and is available in matt black or white lacquer. The shelves and the doors are Move’s distinctive trait. The front surface of Move comes in both MDF with the three-dimensional effect in American walnut or oak veneer as well as in the innovative “soft touch” polyurethane material with 3D texture. Made in Italy, Move is distributed in the USA by Sandler Seating. www.tononitalia.com, www.massivedesign.pl

River Stone by Mac Stopa for Tonon Wins Interior Design HIP Honoree Award 2015 in Three Categories:

Move by Mac Stopa for Tonon Wins Interior Design HIP Award 2015 in Hospitality: Furniture Category

Introduced at Salone del Mobile 2015 in Milan, River Stone by Mac Stopa for Tonon amazes with its organic shape, 3D skin and soft touch. Thanks to its external polyurethane surface, the pouf is extremely comfortable, durable, easy to move and waterproof. 100% hygienic, non-toxic and easy to clean, River Stone is available in a variety of colors and suitable for an almost infinite number of applications: seating in a hotel lobby, lounge and bar; in hotel rooms and in the living room, bedroom and bathroom of a hotel suite; as well as for outdoor terraces, cafes, restaurants and bars. River Stone is also ideally suited as seating in the spa, pool area, or sauna; in the gym, shower area, or in dressing rooms, relaxation rooms and waiting areas. Made in Italy, River Stone is distributed in the USA by Sandler Seating. www.tononitalia.com, www.massivedesign.pl

Click on the icon to view the River Stones in Space video by Mac Stopa.

Hospitality: Lounge Health & Wellness: Furniture Outdoor

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Mac Stopa received a HIP Product Designer Honoree Award from Interior Design magazine during the HIP Awards at NeoCon for his outstanding body of work in product design over the past year. In 2014 – 2015, Mac’s product designs won three Red Dot Design Awards 2015 for the Pelikan chair (with M. Ballendat) for Profim, the Hybrid Collection for Casali, and the modular carpet collection Breaking Form for the Mohawk Group. Mac’s Structure chair for Tonon also won a German Design Award 2015 Special Mention. Additionally, at NeoCon 2015 in Chicago, Mac’s design of the tessellating organic shaped tile in resin with Trulli pattern, part of the Pebble Collection for Mosaico Digitale, won a Best of NeoCon Gold Award. The console Move and River Stone pouf for Tonon, both introduced this year at Salone del Mobile, received an Interior Design HIP Award and three HIP Honoree Awards respectively during NeoCon 2015. In the second half of 2014, Mac’s designs received three Interior Design Best of Year Awards, including two for the Hybrid Collection and one for the wallcovering 3D/CB; three Interior Design Best of Year Honoree Awards: two for the Hybrid Collection and one for the Tako chair. Mac’s Table for Tonon also won a GOOD DESIGN™ Award and a Best of Boutique Design/New York Product Design Award 2014. Other products designed by Mac introduced in 2014 – 2015 include the Futuro workstation for Mikomax at ORGATEC 2014; and the 3D Rhomboid modular floor tiles for Bolon, the Waves of Creativity upholstered pentagonal cushions, and the modular shelving system in Saint Gobain gypsum technology, all introduced during FuoriSalone 2015 in Milan. www.massivedesign.pl

Mac Stopa Wins HIP Interior Design Product Designer Honoree Award 2015

Mac Stopa’s Pebble Collection for Mosaico Digitale is a wall tile with a tessellating star shape. The tile is made from smaller pebble-shaped forms in resin. Using a special design geometry, Mac creates a stunning organic mosaic effect achieved without any recognizable divisions between the tiles. Thanks to the new resin technology, the tile is strong, but light-weight, durable yet flexible, and gives the possibility to replicate any photographic image on the tile, including graphic designs. By changing the color of the tiles and the color of the grouting between the tiles, different graphic expressions on the finished surface may be achieved. The tiles are available in a variety of colors, including solid and mirrored, are eco-friendly and 100% water proof; a perfect solution for wall tiles in the bathroom as well as for swimming pools. One of many tile patterns that Mac designed for the collection, the Trulli pattern, exhibited during NeoCon 2015 and winner of a Best of NeoCon Gold Award, is inspired by ancient architectural Trulli symbols native to the Puglia region in Italy. The Trulli symbols digitized in a 3D wave pattern with the colors of sea anemone give the pattern a distinct Mediterranean vibe. www.mosaicodigitale.it, www.massivedesign.pl

Pebble Collection by Mac Stopa for Mosaico Digitale Wins Best of NeoCon Gold Award 2015

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Mac Stopa, IIDA, is founder and chief architect and designer of Massive Design, an award-winning architectural design firm specializing in corporate interiors and public spaces as well as industrial design. Massive Design’s clients include, among others, Google, Coca-Cola, Ericsson, Samsung, GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, Mondelez, Cargill, Mars, Pernod Ricard, Bacardi-Martini, Credit Suisse, PwC, The Boston Consulting Group, Lloyd’s, Legg Mason, Brown Brothers Harriman and EY.

Mac Stopa is known for his modern, innovative and unconventional interiors that reflect and enhance a company’s corporate image as well as for designing interiors that are functional, comfortable and productive work environments, increasing a company’s appeal as “an employer of choice.” For the Zywiec Group (Heineken) project, Massive Design won the bronze medal for commercial interior design at the Bienal Miami + Beach competition in the USA. In 2013, he designed the interiors for the Ghelamco Arena in Ghent, Belgium, which won a Best of Year Honoree Award 2013 in the public space category from New York-based Interior Design magazine. In 2014, the Ghelamco Arena project was honored with an Interiors Award in the sports category during the 35th Annual Interiors Awards in New York presented by Contract magazine.

Mac is also an award-winning industrial designer and graphic designer. His portfolio includes, among others, the Hexagon bench for Casamania (Interior Design Best of Year Honoree Award 2011); for DuPont™ Corian®, Fin, Wakame and Shell lamps, Penta sink (Interior Design Best of Year Honoree Award 2013) and Penta tiles (Must Have Award 2013); Mesh 3D pattern on upholstery for Dauphin; the Hexa seating system for Nowy Styl Group (Diamond Award 2013); for Tonon, chairs Structure (Red Dot Design Award 2013, GOOD DESIGN™ Award 2013, Interior Design Best of Year Award 2013, German Design Award Special Mention 2015), Step (Interior Design Best of Year Honoree Award 2013), Tako (Interior Design Best of Year Honoree Award 2014) and Mac’s Table (GOOD DESIGN™ Award 2014, Best of Boutique Design/NY Product Design Award 2014); the Hybrid Collection for Casali (Red Dot Design Award 2015, two Interior Design Best of Year Awards 2014 and two Interior Design Best of Year Honoree Awards 2014); as well as 3D/CB Wallcovering (Interior Design Best of Year Award 2014).

His portfolio also includes the FLOW installation in Staron® for the Interni Legacy 2012 exhibition during FuoriSalone. For Milan Design Week 2013, Mac designed the Interni Press Office as part of the Interni Hybrid Architecture & Design exhibition, which featured his Watch Your Step 3D pattern on carpet, wallcovering and upholstery. Also for the Interni Hybrid exhibition, Mac designed the Parabola chair and table collection in i.design EFFIX® concrete by Italcementi (Interior Design Best of Year Honoree Award 2013).

At NeoCon 2014, in collaboration with the Mohawk Group, Mac’s Breaking Form modular carpet collection (Red Dot Design Award 2015, Best of NeoCon Editors’ Choice Award 2014) and WHY Y luxury vinyl tiles (Interior Design HIP Use of Color Award 2014) were introduced. During the HIP Awards at NeoCon, Mac received a HIP Honoring Industry People Product Designer Honoree Award 2014 from Interior Design magazine. At ORGATEC 2014, his Futuro workstation for Mikomax and Pelikan chair with M. Ballendat for Profim (Red Dot Design Award 2015) were introduced.

In March 2015, Mac designed the Hybrid Collection table installation for DIFFA’s Dining by Design New York exhibition in collaboration with Casali, Tonon, Mohawk Group, Ghelamco and Artemide. Also in March 2015, Mac’s Trulli patterns for Mosaico Digitale were exhibited at the Japan Shop show in Tokyo. In April 2015 in Milan for the Interni Energy for Creativity exhibition, in collaboration with Bolon, he designed the Waves of Creativity Interni Press Office featuring his 3D Rhomboid floor tiles and mix of artistic colorful patterns, geometries and special furniture. Also included were his Waves of Creativity graphic applied on the walls, on the custom upholstered pentagonal cushions and on the award-winning Pelikan chairs by Profim. He also designed the River Stone poufs with parametric 3D skin for Tonon and a modular shelving system using Saint-Gobain gypsum technology that gives the impression of controlled randomness.

At NeoCon 2015, Mac’s designs won a Best of NeoCon Gold Award for the tessellating organic shaped tile with Trulli pattern in resin, part of the Pebble Collection for Mosaico Digitale, and five Interior Design HIP Awards: for Tonon, Move (HIP Award 2015) and River Stone (three HIP Honoree Awards 2015) as well as a HIP Product Designer Honoree Award.

Mac graduated from the Cracow University of Technology’s School of Architecture and is a member of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA). He is also an accomplished electric guitar player and music composer.

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Massive Design is an award-winning architectural design firm specializing in corporate interior planning and design for Fortune and Global 500 companies, designing interiors for public spaces as well as industrial design.

Mac Stopa, IIDA, is Massive Design’s founder and chief architect and designer. Mac is known for his modern, innovative and unconventional interiors that reflect and enhance a company’s corporate image as well as for designing interiors that are functional, comfortable and productive work environments, increasing a company’s appeal as “an employer of choice.” Mac’s expertise designing corporate interiors and public spaces includes custom furniture and lighting design. An award-winning industrial designer, Mac Stopa also designs furniture, lighting, flooring, fixtures, textiles, and other interior products for serial production.

Massive Design’s clients include, among others, Google, Coca-Cola, Samsung, Orlen, Ericsson, BMW, GlaxoSmithKline, Viacom International Media Networks, Unilever, Mondelez (Kraft Foods), Cargill, Mars, Mohawk Group, Pernod Ricard, IBM, Tonon, Bacardi-Martini, Credit Suisse, PwC, DLA Piper, Brown Brothers Harriman, Lloyd’s, Legg Mason and EY.

Tonon is one of the best known international brands in the world of chairs and tables, reliable and synonymous for design and quality “Made in Italy.” Characterizing features that come from the past: their origins date back to the Twenties, many years of careful and creative craftsmanship. After that came the industrialization of the Fifties with a remarkable production increase. The pleasure of ”thinking and making” however never failed. Tonon today bases itself on research and experience, on cultural and marketing factors, on new materials and new technologies. All with a craftsman heart and an industrial mind, a combination ensuring a better life while seated, whether relaxing, working, or at the table.

www.massivedesign.pl

www.tononitalia.com

www.mosaicodigitale.com

Mosaico Digitale creates world-class technology evolution of the classic mosaics utilizing resin tile. Any digital image can be tiled across any surface – a revolutionary solution for coatings that transforms digital images into beautiful mosaics in resin.

Our digital mosaics are 100% customizable. In addition to our core designs, we produce custom work for clients who want to bring individualized art to the wall. Shape, distances and even the content of the tiles can be filled with personally selected elements. The only restriction? Your fantasy for a mosaic born from explosion of creativity and imagination.

Our recent collaboration with Mac Stopa highlights our creative depth and production expertise.

For more information, please contact Dana Grizwin at: media@massivedesign.pl.