Vietnamese painter wins silver at A’Design Awards & Competitions
Vietnamese painter Nguyen Thu Thuy has won the silver trophy of the International A’Design Awards & Competitions, the world’s largest and most internationally dispersed design awards event, for her ceramic designs for Mirror House in Hanoi’s Thong Nhat Park.
Painter Nguyen Thu Thuy inside the Mirror House (Photo: dantri.com.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnamese painter Nguyen Thu Thuy has won thesilver trophy of the International A’Design Awards & Competitions, theworld’s largest and most internationally dispersed design awards event, for herceramic designs for Mirror House in Hanoi’s Thong Nhat Park.
Thuy’s ocean-inspired work was awarded theprize in the category of Social Design for Environment.
The Mirror House, or Laughing House, was builtin 1979 with support from the former Czechoslovakian government. It was builtin the shape of a huge snail shell, with 50 mirrors reflecting distortedreflections of visitors.
Last year, the house was in a state ofdisrepair, with oxidized mirrors, a leaking roof, and damp walls. Hanoiauthorities assigned Thuy and her colleagues from the Tan Hanoi (New Hanoi) Companyto renovate the House and turn it into an artistic structure decorated withceramic designs.
Thuy is set to visit Como, Italy, in June toreceive the prize. Images of the Hanoi Ceramic Mirror House will be exhibitedin MOOD Museum during the occasion.
This year, the organising board received 1962nominations from 100 countries in 99 different disciplines of design.
The A’ Design Awards were established to raisepublic awareness of outstanding design practices and principles. The ultimateaim of the award is to build strong incentives for designers, companies andbrands from all countries to come up with better products, services and systemsthat can benefit mankind.
The competition therefore highlights and pushesforward worldwide designers and brands to create products and projects thatoffer additional value, increased utility, and new functionality, alongsideoffering superior aesthetics, efficiency, sustainability and performance.-VNA
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Painter Nguyen Thu Thuy inside the Mirror House (Photo: dantri.com.vn) 
