Modernist Continuity

For carrying a rigorous inheritance forward without allowing it to become doctrine.

The jury notedAs winner of Modernist Continuity, Rob Van Sprang is recognised for an interior architecture practice shaped by clarity and cultivated restraint. At Studio Rob van Sprang, an admiration for Jean Prouvé meets a material instinct for oak and the cool precision of ice blue. His attention to art, grounded in a love of Amsterdam, gives this modernist outlook cultural depth.

And also, winner of

Furniture of the Year

For objects built to outlive their owners, and most trends.

The jury notedFor reasons the jury feels little need to justify, the committee noted the quiet consistency for which Studio Rob van Sprang is, rightly, relied upon, a sensibility shaped somewhere between the studio and Amsterdam and an understanding of the factory as a design method that cannot be faked. The matter is settled, the trophy is small, the honour considerable.

Borisov, Amsterdam · 17 September 2026

Recorded in two categories · Entry verified 18 September 2026

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