Beyond Design Awards · MMXXVI
Anton Klat
Occony
Winner of the category
Commercial Stewardship
For ensuring that good design finds both its audience and its future.
The jury notedAs winner of Commercial Stewardship, Anton Klat brings commercial instinct to Occony’s conviction that circular furniture must remain aesthetically persuasive. His preference for recycled paper and admiration for Basten Leij reflect a sensibility that values responsible choices without lowering formal standards. A current devotion to tennis suggests that persistence is not confined to the showroom.
And also, winner of
The Ambassador of Design
For those who carry good design out into the world.
The jury notedFor a body of work no sales should reasonably be capable of, the evidence revealed a near-spiritual devotion to gerecycled paper, a house style at Occony that others have begun to borrow and tennis, pursued with wholly unreasonable seriousness. History, we suspect, will pretend to have seen it coming. One juror underlined your “Love circulair furniture But aesthetic” twice. You are hereby named winner of this category, by unanimous and faintly emotional decision.
Recorded in two categories
· Entry verified 18 September 2026
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