On The Inside Design is a Finalist for Spark Awards

Jeanine Naviaux's Eco-Friendly Beach End Table is a finalist in 2008 Spark Awards

(San Diego, CA - September 4, 2008)—San Diego Design firm, On The Inside Design’s Jeanine Naviaux submitted a modernly earth-conscious design for an end table to the 2008 Spark Awards. Spark is a new and exciting international design competition created to promote new designs and designers from professional to novices. Seeking designers who offer change, Spark enticed Jeanine Naviaux, whose green approach to design has led to the formation of items such as the Beach End Table, her entry into the competition.

With a concern for beauty and sustainability, Naviaux shares many of the values central to Spark. The Beach End Table, made from recycled wood and eco-sustainable raffia cloth, is representative of a shift that environmentally-conscious designers are making toward greener methods of design. By utilizing materials that are durable and renewable such as bamboo in many of her designs, Naviaux is saving the planet one room at a time.

Naviaux may be going green, but that certainly doesn’t affect the quality of her cutting edge designs. With a modern touch and a geometric frame, the Beach End Table is both versatile in function and unique in form. Aptly named, as it was originally designed for a client’s beach home, the Beach End Table is perfect for any seaside location. The table was inspired by sleek and clean lines of a Bose Wave Radio, for which the table was designed to hold. It is covered with a thick glass top, keeping the understated raffia cloth safe from the many margaritas soon to come.

Jeanine Naviaux is a designer for the interior design firm On the Inside Design. The San Diego-based firm has completed a variety of projects, both locally and internationally.

Spark Awards is the exciting new competition created to promote great design and designers. We invite everyone to participate--designers, art directors, architects, design firms, manufacturers, institutions, ad agencies, students and novices may enter and enjoy the Spark Design Awards.

Spark is a bold new competition—a unique crossroads of design, where the interests of all participants in the community are represented and their strengths brought to bear. Spark leaps beyond the mid-century view of design. In this new world, how do the best ideas and best designs gain recognition? SparkAwards will validate superlative designs from professionals. But we also need a filter for the best novice designers and innovators, too. The world is now participating in design—let's enable the best formgivers to rise to the top.

Spark is about Change—designed change. Change for the better: studied, researched, cognizant of criteria like sustainability, suitability, context, inventiveness, process, universality—and yes, beauty.

Ultimately, one must ask why this is important. Commerce is important, but it is a means to an end. We might call the real goal "betterment." Better lives, better health, better water, better air. Great design can help us get there. Do your part—make designs that make a difference.

We'll help.

Design is a critical tool in our search for betterment. People are both the source of and destiny for all design. We encourage designers of all walks of life to join us, and Spark!

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Name: Jeanine Naviaux
Email: jeanine@ontheinsidedesign.com
Telephone: 858.583.2940

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