TUBES RADIATORI, RIFT WINS THE GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2017

Tubes Radiatori

The Rift radiator, designed by Ludovica+Roberto Palomba with Matteo Fiorini for Tubes Radiatori was awarded with the Good Design Award 2017.

The Good Design Award, set up in 1950 and organised by the Chicago Athenaeum - Museum of architecture and design - in conjunction with the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies, is one of the most internationally acclaimed design awards and is assigned in December to the most innovative designs.

For the 2017 edition, the jury selected 900 new products and projects from more than 48 countries all over the world, awarding them for their aesthetic and technical performances.

Rift is a modular, component-based radiator, designed to satisfy the customisation needs of any designer. It is made up of modules in extruded aluminium which can be arranged horizontally or vertically, aligned, unaligned or inverted in order to form compact, symmetrical or asymmetrical

sculptures. Its versatility is further enhanced by the line of accessories, which includes shelves, making the radiator perfect for living rooms or bedrooms, along with heated towel rails, ideal for the bathroom.

The greatest feature which makes Rift really innovative is a great technical revolution, a patented innovation related to installation, which is much simpler than for any traditional radiator, making it perfect for renovations. Precise centring is no longer necessary for connection to the plumbing

system which for Rift occurs by means of a single collector with flexible centring.

Tubes offers a number of standard models consisting of double or multiple combinations of Rift, horizontally or vertically aligned, misaligned or reversed by varying sizes and different joints, creating a collection of monumental and customized radiators according to your taste and needs.

Rift, besides the Good Design, obtained the following prizes: the iF Design Award 2016 in the Building Technology category, the Special Mention for the German Design Award 2017 and the Wallpaper* Design Award 2017 in the Best Sleepover category.