InterCIDEC, Design, Interior design

Jury Day of the InterCIDEC 2019 International Competition

Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, chair of the jury for the InterCIDEC interior design competition: “There is a huge trend towards interior design.”

Interior design is in vogue. and hotels have joined this trend. This is how he explained it Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, chairwoman of the jury of the International Design Competition of Contract Environments, InterCIDEC 2019, met this Thursday, 17 October , at the facilities of Beltá & Frajumar.

There is a huge trend towards interior design. Before, people thought a lot about the home, but now I believe that they think more about hotels. a13> think more about hotels and it is an example of a20> how this is changing this world of furniture, one of the passions of my life,” he assured.

Agatha Ruiz de la Prada

The jury of the InterCIDEC interior design competition was made up of twelve prestigious professionals,…

…among them the Italian living in Madrid, Andrea Spada, co-founder of IlmioDesign; the galician Loli Moroño of PF1 Interiorismo, specialized in the Hospitaliy sector; the valencians Pepe Cosín, of Cosín Estudio, and David Puerta, founder of Viruta Lab, which was the winner of InterCIDEC 2018; the balearic interior designer Damián Pujol; or the architects and interior designers of Zaragoza, Carlos Beamonte and Ricardo Vallejo. It also featured the expert in colour, Eva Muñoz, afincada en Suiza, que ha trabajado para Seat o Lamborghini y representaba a Spradling, el principal fabricante de tejidos y patrocinador del concurso.

Damian Pujol

And hotel representatives, which is not surprising…

On behalf of the hoteliers, Cary Rodríguez attended on behalf of Soho Boutique Hotels, while Cesáreo Martín He did the same as a journalist for international agencies and communications consultant. From the academic field, in addition to Pepe Cosín, who is Dean of the College of Interior Designers of the Valencian Community, was secretary of the jury, his manager Amparo Balbastre. Finally, Robert Ortega, Marketing Director of Beltá & Frajumar, represented us.

Cary Rodriguez of Soho Boutique Hotels

Increase participation

The jury had to evaluate the quality of the 61 proposals presented, from twelve countries. The theme of this edition was design of the interior of a restaurant of less than 100 square metres a10, and in their assessment they scored the conceptual proposal; innovation in form, composition or materials; the aesthetic value from a point of view of harmony and layout; or accessibility for people with disabilities, amongst others.

Carlos Beamonte and Ricardo Vallejo architects of Beamonte and Vallejo

The director of Beltá & Frajumar, Carlos Juan Ortiz, highlighted

“the consolidation of the competition due to the quality of the projects, the number of proposals received, which has increased by nearly 40% compared to the previous edition, and greater internationalization by receiving proposals from a dozen countries.”

Loli Morono from PF1 Interior Design

The competition has as its objective showcase the talent that exists in interior design of interiors and allows to put in contact the creator, manufacturer and owner of hotel to establish synergies and collaborations.

Pepe Cosin and Amparo Balbastre from the College of Interior Designers of the Valencian Community

The majority of the interior design projects presented in this in this fourth edition correspond to the category professional (with a single prize of €5,000) and, to a lesser extent, to the category of students (with a prize of €1,000).

Eva Munoz from Spradling Europe

The participation of the students caught the attention of the renowned interior designer, Andrea Spada, from ILMIODESIGN, who would have liked

“A greater participation in quantity and quality” with “innovation or freshness by not being contaminated and being free souls” since “the professional often looks at trends and has this environmental contamination due to his contact with the client,” he assured. “I’m going to value a lot what stands out,” he admitted.

Andrea Spada by IlmioDesign

In terms of the origin of the interior design projects, Spain leads the number of proposals submitted, followed by Mexico, Argentina, and countries in Europe such as France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands. Some of them were presenting projects for the first time.

David Puerta from Viruta Lab

The InterCIDEC 2019 decision will be announced on November 7, during the awards ceremony which, on this occasion, will be held in Madrid in the Como room, together with Comunica + A.