In the Australian State of Victoria, Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary design Award is organized by the National Gallery of Victoria. Simone Leanmon is the winner of 2009.She won this award for her Lepidoptera Chair, which has unique designs. The award was dedicated to contemporary seat furniture design this year.

The Lepidoptera Chair has interesting concepts. According to Simone, the concept of the chair was drawn from the anatomy of a butterfly’s wing to bring purpose to the formal equation of structure, color or pattern. Lepidoptera id derived from Greek and it means ‘scale’ and ‘wing’. Lepidoptera are powerful signifiers of evolutionary process, which provides new perspectives on issues such as climate change, technology, structure and aesthetics. Lepidoptera manifests Leamon’s long held fascination for the equation between mobility and freedom and the machismo of moto culture. The central theme in most of her works is based upon the transference of desire and passion for products that tell a story through process and material.

Simone has used textile remnants and R&D spillage from Australia’s leading automotive textile manufacturer Autofab to design Lepidoptera. She truly deserves the award for her creative work. I sincerely appreciate her unconventional talent. Via: Contemporist\OsInitiative\Gov