2010 ed. competition rules

“Aldo Morelato Foundation”
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OF APPLIED ART IN THE FURNITURE FIELD
The “significant” furniture 2010 – 7th Edition
Hospitality places
Furniture elements for a hotel room

Art. 1 Subject of the competition
The increasing number of requirements for contract furniture indicates how important the furnishing of hotel rooms nowadays has become.
In our global society mobility is one of the characterizing features of modern life and hospitality places play an essential role.
Hotel rooms offer different multiple solutions according to the type of hotel they belong to.
Over the last twenty years the hospitality model has changed: hotels are characterized by the place they are situated in and at the same time they distinguish themselves by offering proposals which stimulate and evoke in a visitor „the emotions of the place“
The Foundation invites the partakers of the competition to develop a project for “a hotel room” and specifically to develop furniture elements for a hotel room.

Art. 2 Participation
The competition is open to all Italian or foreign designers who as students or professionals work in the design field and in the field of applied art; therefore the competition is open to students from different school types (Academies, ISIA, Universities) as well as professional designers. In order to guarantee the level of the Competition, the scientific Committee of the Aldo Morelato Foundation has invited some authors famous for their outstanding professionalism.

Art. 3 Required Documentation
Each participant must send the following to the Secretary of the Competition:
- a panel of 50 x 70 cm to illustrate the project (photo’s, drawings etc.) of the chosen space;
- a panel of 50 x 70 cm to illustrate the project of a significant piece of furniture which refers to the subject of “resting”;
- a paper, which describes the inspiring principles of the project, (ideation, and meaning of the project, the environmental use) and technical details for the execution and production of the object.
NOTE: It is possible to send only a CD with the project in PDF and with a high resolution: the Secretary of the Competition will see to its printing. In this case an extra 30.00 Euros have to be added to the registration fee indicated in art. 5.

Art. 4 Article Anonymity
The documentation indicated in article 3 must be identifiable only by the title of the project. No other identification must be inserted, neither on the 50x 70 cm panels nor in the paper. In order to guarantee the participants’ anonymity, the projects must be put into a sealed package without any identifiable elements (see art. 6, point B) under penalty of disqualification.
In the package, which will be consigned to the Jury, the participant must include a sealed envelope, with the title of the project on the outside and inside all personal details of the designer: name, surname, address, phone- and fax number, e-mail address. The sealed envelope will be used by the jury when they designer of a winning project has to be individuated.

Art. 5 Registration Fee
In order to participate a sum of 50,-Euros must be transferred when applying (see art. 6) (participants who have been invited to participate by the Foundation are exempted).
In case the participant is still a student, the registration fee is 20,- Euros; to obtain this reduction a certificate of registration issued by the Academy or University must be included.
The registration fee is in no way refundable. Participants, who have not effected payment of the registration fee, are excluded from the contest.
The payment of the registration fee must be effected indicating “Registration for the International “Aldo Morelato Foundation” Contest of applied art in Furniture” 2010 edition, and by the following means:
-Postal order addressed to the Aldo Morelato Foundation- Villa Dionisi, Località Ca’ del Lago 70, 37053 Cerea (Vr) Italy
-Bank transfer to the account of the Aldo Morelato Foundation at the Banca Veronese- Credito Cooperativo di Concamarise, (bank details, swift cod: ICRA IT RR 8Y0 IT 23 Q 08322 59430 000000325321)

Art. 6 Expiration date – application for registration
The application for registration must be sent by sealed registered letter within 14 May 2010 (post stamp as proof) to the following address: Segretaria Concorso Internazionale “Fondazione Aldo Morelato” sull’Arte Applicata nel Mobile, Palazzo Taidelli, Corso Vittorio Emanuele 61, 37058 Sanguinetto (Verona) Italy.
The envelope must include the application for the registration, in which the participant indicates all personal details (a copy of what is required can be found at the website www.fondazionealdomorelato.org), to which the following must be added:
-copy of passport or identity card
-receipt of the execution of payment by the in art. 5 indicated means
-if the participant is a student, the certificate of registration must be included, issued by the Academy or University, which the student attends.
-the documentation as indicated in art. 3 with indication of the title of the project;
-the sealed envelope as indicated in art. 4 bearing the title of the project and containing inside all personal details of the designer.
Incomplete applications are not accepted.

Art. 7 Group participation
It is possible to participate as a group with a project signed by more than one person. In case of group participation together with the application form a specifying note containing all personal details and a copy of passport or identity card of all participants must be added.
Only one name is however required as a contact reference and for administrative aims (participation, documentation etc.).
The participation fee for group projects is the same as for projects developed by a single designer. Also for group participations it is possible to pay a reduced fee for students, if all participants of the project include a registration certificate issued by the Academy or University they attend. In this case the project will also participate in the “City of Cerea - Scuola Appio Spagnolo” Award for students.

Art. 8 The Prizes
The following prizes will be awarded:
- the First Prize “The Aldo Morelato Foundation Award” of 10.000 Euros; (the Aldo Morelato Foundation has the right to produce the prototype, which will be part of the MAAM permanent collection of the Foundation);
- the Students’ Prize The Appio Spagnolo School” Award of 2.500 Euros for students who within the theme of the Competition present projects which enhance and renew the style furniture sector of the “Verona plain area”
The decisions of the Jury are final and unappealable. The Jury has the right not to award the prizes if the projects do not reach the necessary level and to award ex aequo prizes when held necessary.

Art. 9 The Jury
The projects will be judged by a Jury composed of:
• Silvana Annicchiarico, Director of the Design Museum, Triennale in Milan
• Sergio Calatroni, designer
• Ugo La Pietra, designer and theorist of applied art;
• Ettore Mocchetti, progettista, direttore della rivista “AD”
• Anty Pansera, historian of design and applied art
• Giorgio Morelato, President of the Aldo Morelato Foundation

Art. 10 Tasks of the Jury
The Jury will meet at Villa Dionisi (Cerea-Verona), seta of the Aldo Morelato Foundation, to value the projects received and consistent with the present rules, on originality and on the characteristics required in art. 1.
The final judgement will take place on 11 June 2010.
The jury votes by majority. The judgement is unappealable. The secretary of the competition will keep a record of the valuation meetings of the Jury.

Art. 11 The result of the Contest
The result of the Competition will be published on the webpage within 30 June 2010 and the designers of the winning projects as well as the nominated designers will be informed directly about the result of the contest.

Art. 12 Awarding
The Awarding ceremony will take place on 17 September 2010 at Villa Dionisi during an evening reception dedicated to the Outlook on Applied Art of the Aldo Morelato Foundation, in which the selected projects will be exhibited together with the prototype of the winning project. n.

Art. 13 Property of the projects
The participating projects will not be sent back and according to the rules regarding the rights of the author, the projects will become part of the Foundation’s archives and may be used for exhibitions at Villa Dionisi and Palazzo Taidelli or at other exhibitions.
The prototype of the First Prize produced by the Aldo Morelato Foundation remains at the seat of the Outlook at Villa Dionisis and will be part of the permanent collection of the Aldo Morelato Foundation and the Aldo Morelato Foundation has the exclusive rights on the proto type as well as the right to promote the production of the object, after an agreement between the designer of the project and the furniture producer

Art. 14 Acceptance of the rules
Candidature for the competition implies the acceptance of the present regulation. The promoting organizations reserve the right to make modifications to the present regulations whenever they retain necessary. Such modifications will be communicated in good time and in the most appropriate manner to those involved.