Desen
Desen Coffee Table by Ruya Akyol is a winner of the 2025 Silver A' Design Award in Furniture Design.
Desen is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs.
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Desen, a modular coffee table collection inspired by traditional Mediterranean tile geometries, features two shapes of varying heights that permit numerous configurations and evoke an architectural aesthetic. Designed for individual use or as part of a larger composition, the collection balances functional practicality with sculptural form. Recessed tops offer practical surface areas while hollow interiors enhance material efficiency. Constructed from locally sourced marbles, Desen presents natural richness and texture, merging traditional influences with contemporary design principles.
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Desen by Ruya Akyol
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Coffee Table
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Furniture Design Award Winner in 2025.
Silver Winner
Desen Coffee Table
Desen is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Desen is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Desen is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparkles amazement and wonderment.
Winner Designer
Ruya Akyol
Rüya Akyol, completed her education at Istanbul Technical University, Politecnico di Milano and Domus Academy with honors in Industrial Design and Communication Design. She worked with Claudio Bellini in Milan and Philippe Starck in Paris as a designer and studio director for many years before she established her own practice. As a Milan based designer and consultant, she provides product, furniture, and spatial design, as well as brand identity and art direction services. The holistic design approach that she embraces, creates homogeneous and clear brand identities. The designer's style is a synthesis of contemporary Italian and minimalist Scandinavian.
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Ruya Akyol
Ruya Akyol Studio, a Milan based designer, provides product, furniture, and spatial design, as well as brand identity and art direction services. The holistic design approach of the designer, results in cohesive and refined brands. The designer’s unique style blends contemporary Italian influences, drawn from her professional experience, with minimalist Scandinavian aesthetics and a touch of warmth inspired by her Turkish heritage.
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Ruya Akyol Studio
Ruya Akyol Studio, a Milan and Istanbul-based design and consultancy firm, provides product, furniture, and spatial design, as well as brand identity and art direction services. The holistic design approach that the studio embraces, creates homoge
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