Archiproducts Design Awards 2025: Alessandra Baldereschi

The Archiproducts Design Awards (ADA) are among the most respected international accolades recognising excellence in product design. Launched in 2016, the Awards celebrate synergy between designers and brands, emphasising creativity, innovation and sustainability.

Key highlights of the ADA:

• It covers 14 product categories, including Furniture, Bathroom, Kitchen, Outdoor, Contract, Office, and notably Lighting.
• Each year, a jury of top architects, designers and creative directors evaluates submissions from around the world.
• Winning a category positions a product and its designer at the forefront of design innovation and global visibility.
• The 2025 edition reinforces ADA’s role as a benchmark for design excellence and future trends.

For the Lighting category, in particular, winners are those projects that merge functional performance with poetic and technological innovation—exactly the profile of Flowers in Wonderland.

Designed by Alessandra Baldereschi for Multiforme, Flowers in Wonderland is a lighting collection that fuses sculptural glass, imaginative storytelling and state-of-the-art lighting technology.

Main features and innovations:

• A collection of buds in hand-blown artistic glass, shaped like unopened flowers or fantasy gems, ready to bloom when lit.
• Pastel colours and delicate textures create a fairy-tale aesthetic—evoking both nature and wonder.
• Two size-options for the accompanying vase: one for a single stem, one for multiple stems (up to five).
• A rechargeable battery version: The flower stem hides a built-in battery powering a dimmable LED in the corolla—allowing cordless placement and enhanced versatility.
• Technical mastery: the interaction of light and glass, transparency and form, which transforms the lamp into an emotional experience as much as a functional object. As Baldereschi says: “Light is a tool of transformation… In these lamps, light is not simply functional but plays a fundamental role in enhancing the soft curves and transparency of the glass.”

Flower in Wonderland thus succeeds in combining aesthetics and utility, bringing together craftsmanship (glass-blowing), storytelling (the “Wonderland” metaphor) and technological refinement (cordless LED, dimmable light, modular stems).

Alessandra Baldereschi is an Italian designer whose poetic, dream-like approach transforms everyday objects through her own personal stylistic code. Her work evokes memories, soft fairy-tale atmospheres and imagery with the intangible quality of dreams.

• After an artistic training, she earned her Master’s in Product Design at Domus Academy in Milan.
• She then obtained a residency-studio in Japan, collaborating with companies in the Gifu district to develop ceramic tableware.
• Upon returning to Italy, she began working with leading brands such as Swatch Bijoux, Fabbian Illuminazione, Moss NY, Dilmos Gallery, De Castelli, Seletti, Mogg, Ichendorf and others, designing lighting, furnishings and accessories.

• Her work has been showcased at major events including the Saint-Étienne Biennale, Inside Design Amsterdam, and the Seoul Design Festival.
• Many of her pieces have been selected for international exhibitions such as Milan Made in Design (Beijing and Shanghai), the GLASS exhibition at the DesignHuis Museum in Eindhoven, and the Triennale Design Museum in Milan.
• In 2017, Alessandra was appointed Ambassador of Italian Design by Triennale Milano for the Italian Design Day.