News / Design / Real Estate June - August 2022 MALTA
CONSTRUCTION UNWASTED:
LOCAL DESIGNER MAKING WAVES IN ECODESIGN
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nna Horvath, designer and architect, has made waves on the international scene with her disruptive ecocollection . SORGI, after she won over judges to represent Malta in this year’s Creative Business Cup and was honored with an award at a New York City design trade fair called CLOSEUP, with European designers collective ECO Solidarity.
This news came just after ECO Solidarity, a collective of design practitioners from nine EU countries, was recognized by the ICFF Editors’ Award 2022 in New York City at design trade fair organized by WantedDesign Manhattan and ICFF - CLOSEUP 2021. The ICFF Editors Awards are one of the design industry’s premier accolades. The esteemed design judges awarded ECO Solidarity, which includes AHA objects, with “best booth” at the fair.
The Hungarian, Malta-based designer and architect is the founder of AHA objects, an emerging design studio “based on storytelling, sustainability, and joy” according to their website. It centres itself around playful yet sustainable design, like their latest body of work: SOR. GI.
Horvarth is no stranger to international projects, participating in a number of design and architecture projects in London, Lisbon, Budapest and Malta. Her projects include the permanent exhibition at the prestigious Jewish Museum in Berlin, furniture design for a favela in Rio de Janeiro, or a pop-up store for Hermes Petit h collection in Lisbon. These wins are just the beginning for the designer.
. SORGI is an outdoor furniture collection made entirely of construction waste for the island’s public spaces. Each piece is an aesthetic answer and tangible solution to the mounting issue of discarded materials left in the trails of the booming but destructive construction industry in Malta.
After securing these .two international triumphs for SORGI, it’s clear that Horvath’s brainchild has not gone unnoticed.
This global competition, organized by the Creative Business Network, brings together 80 national winners who aim to change the world through their own unique creative enterprise.
Judges of The Creative Business Cup . Malta unanimously awarded SORGI with first place, which will see Horvath represent Malta in this year’s Olympics of creative start ups in Denmark.
Christie’s International Real Estate network expands into the luxury enclave of Malta with Oyster Real Estate
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rincipal Miguel Bonello founded his boutique firm in 2017, one of the fastest growing privately owned real estate agencies in Malta, after a long-term career focused on the luxury real estate market. Specialising in the high-end market, the company is rebranding to Oyster Christie’s International Real Estate, underscoring its close ties to the world’s leading invitation-only network Malta may be one of the smallest countries on the globe, but it is a mighty draw for buyers of luxury real estate. And Christie’s International Real Estate proudly announces the network’s newest Affiliate, Oyster Christie’s International Real Estate in Malta, under the co-ownership of Miguel Bonello, Annabelle Bonello Lowell and Malcolm R Lowell.
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