Hall of Fame architect and interior designer Lauren Rottet, FAIA, FIIDA, and Rottet Collection have been honored with a 2025 Good Design Award for the Luminosa Screen, as well as the Split Face Planter, selected by Architectural Record Magazine in its Best Products 2025 juried competition, in the Outdoor Landscaping category.
The Good Design Awards are bestowed by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and recognize the top new products annually. Founded in Chicago in 1950 by Eero Saarinen and Charles and Ray Eames, Good Design is the oldest and most respected program awarding design excellence worldwide. This year, the museum received a record number of submissions from an international roster of top manufacturers and industrial, product and graphic design firms representing the best consumer design from 55 nations.
“I’m thrilled with these honors and am so appreciative of the recognition from the juries which represent my peers in the architecture and design profession,” said Rottet. “Both creations highlight artisan techniques that utilize the finest materials sourced from around the globe.”
Rottet’s design for a new typology of light combines her decades-long fascination with kinetic art coupled with the Light and Space movement, which she considers a prime influence on her work today. Her quest to create candescent objects with unassuming materials has resulted in a cutting-edge design, offering privacy while emitting an ambient glow.
Working in tandem with Rubelli, a fifth-generation Venetian textile manufacturer, Rottet utilized one of the brand’s sumptuous fabrics and embedded with woven strands of LED fabric, transforming it into a functioning screen supported by a metal frame. The result is a combination of Old World luxury fused with 21st-century technology.
Crafted in collaboration with Belgian ceramicists Atelier Vierkant, the textured Split Face Planters are cast from a single mold and meticulously hand-carved, sculpted and offered in warm white or warm gray. The vessels are accented with a painted bronze metallic glaze and stand 7 feet, making a larger-than-life statement, while the reflective finish provides an impressionist view of the natural landscape. The planter is also offered in a 3-ft. version.
