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AHEAD Europe hospitality awards winners to be announced in virtual ceremony

The winners of the AHEAD Europe hospitality awards will be announced on Monday in a virtual ceremony broadcast on Dezeen.

The ceremony will take place from 6:00pm UK time, and will be broadcast on Dezeen as well as on our YouTube channel.

The event will feature exclusive video content from the AHEAD Europe nominees, as well as from the judges and sponsors of the awards programme.

You can add the event to your diary by clicking this link.

The ceremony is taking place digitally rather than at a real-world event due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Championing standout hospitality projects from around the world, the AHEAD awards focuses on four different regions: Europe, MEA (Middle East and Africa), the Americas and Asia.

The 2020 AHEAD Europe competition will review projects that have opened, reopened or launched in the continent between June 2019 and May this year,

Last week, Dezeen broadcast a ceremony announcing the winners of the AHEAD MEA awards 2020.

See the full shortlist below:

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Bar, Club or Lounge

40 Elephants at Great Scotland Yard Hotel, London, England
Double Standard at The Standard, London, England
Sibin at Great Scotland Yard Hotel, London, England
The Lobby Bar at One Aldwych, London, England
The Malt Lounge at The Prince Akatoki, London, England

Guestrooms

Apfelhotel, Saltusio, Italy
Birch, Cheshunt, England
Boho Club, Marbella, Spain
Domes Zeen Chania, Greece
Hotel Arlberg Lech, Austria

Hotel Conversion

AMERON Frankfurt Neckarvillen Boutique, Germany
Casa Popeea, Brăila, Romania
Great Scotland Yard Hotel, London, England
Stock Exchange Hotel, Manchester, England
The Standard, London, England

Hotel Newbuild

Dakota Manchester, England
Hart Shoreditch Hotel, London, England
Lindley Lindenberg, Frankfurt, Germany
Market Street Hotel, Edinburgh, Scotland
nhow Amsterdam RAI, The Netherlands

Hotel Restoration & Renovation

Boho Club, Marbella, Spain
Château de Vignée, Villers-sur-Lesse, Belgium
La Maison d'Estournel, Saint-Estèphe, France
Treehouse Hotel London, England
Villa Arnica, Lana, Italy

Landscaping & Outdoor Spaces

Apfelhotel, Saltusio, Italy
Arua Private Spa Villas, Merano, Italy
Domes Zeen Chania, Greece
Ekies All Senses Resort, Vourvourou, Greece
The Newt in Somerset, England

Lobby & Public Spaces

Cretan Malia Park, Crete, Greece
Locke at Broken Wharf, London, England
Parīlio, Naousa, Greece
Rooms Hotel Kokhta, Bakuriani, Georgia
The Lobby Lounge at The Standard, London, England

Lodges, Cabins & Tented Camps

57 Nord, Ardelve, Scotland
Arctic Bath, Harads, Sweden
Camp Hox, Oxfordshire, England
Casa Palerm, Mallorca
Treehouses at Ramside Hall Hotel, Durham, England

Resort

Cretan Malia Park, Crete, Greece
Domes Zeen Chania, Greece
Lefay Resort and Spa, Dolomites, Italy
Parīlio, Naousa, Greece
Quinta da Comporta, Portugal

Restaurant

Decimo at The Standard, London, England
Hélène Darroze at The Connaught, London, England
Helios at Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens, Greece
Memories Sven Wassmer at Grand Resort Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
Mouries at Cretan Malia Park, Crete, Greece

Spa & Wellness

Apfelhotel, Saltusio, Italy
Arctic Bath, Harads, Sweden
Hotel Arlberg Lech, Austria
Lefay Resort and Spa, Dolomites, Italy
The Newt in Somerset, England

Suite

Arua Private Spa Villas, Merano, Italy
Ekies All Senses Resort, Vourvourou, Greece
Lincoln House at Rosewood London, England
Nobel Suite at Grand Hotel Oslo, Norway
Nobu Hotel Barcelona, Spain

Visual Identity

Birch, Cheshunt, England
Boho Club, Marbella, Spain
Château de Vignée, Villers-sur-Lesse, Belgium
Hotel Arlberg Lech, Austria
Villa Arnica, Lana, Italy

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Alfredo Häberli creates "architectural" Giro Soft sofa for Andreu World

Dezeen Showroom: Furniture brand Andreu World has launched Giro Soft, a modular sofa system created by Alfredo Häberli.

In this exclusive video interview produced by Dezeen for Andreu World, the Swiss-Argentinian designer shared the story behind the product.

The modular design features a series of slender upholstered seats with interchangeable legs that can be joined together to build a larger sofa.

The collection, called Giro Soft, is the result of a collaboration between Häberli and the brand that started before the pandemic.

Designer Alfredo Häberli

"We had a team relationship from the very first second," Häberli told Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs in an exclusive video interview conducted over Zoom. "We have the same vision,"

"I sent some drawings at 1:1 scale and we immediately started by working on prototypes in 1:1, which for us designers is the most beautiful thing".

The seating modules come in a variety of shapes that feature a combination of straight edges, rounded ends, and 90-degree or 45-degree curves. The latter lends Giro Soft its name, as "giro" means "curved" in Italian.

Giro Soft modular sofa system designed by Alfredo Häberli for Andreu World

Häberli designed the sofa as a collection of separate, reconfigurable parts to allow users to adapt the furniture to their spatial and personal requirements.

"It's also interesting ergonomically," said Häberli. "It's extremely comfortable to sit on it, to work on it, to relax on it."

Included in the collection is an optional swivelling table that can be slotted between two seating segments.

For use in public spaces, a power outlet can be integrated into the end of a seating module.

A range of legs are also available, including sledge-like supports made from solid ash wood and injected aluminium frames that come in matt or polished, white and black finishes.

These components were designed with both structure and aesthetics in mind, said Häberli, who describes the product's base as "very architectonic".

Black Giro Soft with black aluminium legs

The legs are intended to reduce the amount of materials required to raise the sofa above the floor, thereby giving the sofa a lighter appearance.

"It's like it's flying in a way," said Häberli from his studio, which is located in Zurich in Switzerland.

"The idea came because in a dream I wanted to have the same material as the floor but I cannot come up with 30 different materials," he explained.

"We decided at the end to do it in wood, but the idea was to use the same material as the floor because it makes it even more transparent in a way – and more 'architecture' than 'design'."

Häberli envisioned customers using Giro Soft to break up large spaces as an alternative to a screen or a partition.

Large red Giro Soft sofa and small black Giro Soft sofa

"When I start working I imagine where will I use [the product]," said Häberli. "In this case, it was more in the bigger spaces than smaller ones to use it as an architectural element to divide big spaces."

"I was thinking of hotels but I was also thinking of airports. I was thinking of an office and semi-public spaces where you might have to [architecturally] divide the space."

The sofa system was designed before the outbreak of coronavirus but Häberli argues that Giro Soft could be successfully deployed in a post-pandemic world – particularly in the workplace.

"Yes, we are in a very strange period. When we started, of course, nobody was thinking of [coronavirus]," said Häberli.

"But in the meantime, I have to say it fits perfectly because it's easy to clean. It gives you the opportunity of having enough distance in between the people. And I think these two elements are essential for the future of the offices."

According to Häberli, the pandemic has also created a demand for more comfortable yet functional domestic furniture, as more people are working from home.

"How do we work at the moment? We just work on the dinner table just behind the kitchen," said Häberli. "But if we are really working several days at home, we immediately need more ergonomic items at home."

This video was produced by Dezeen for Andreu World. Giro Soft was due to launch at Milan Design Week in April this year but the annual festival was cancelled earlier due to the outbreak of coronavirus.

Product: Giro Soft
Designer: Alfredo Häberli
Brand: Andreu World
Contact: info@andreuworld.com

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