2004 Tiina Sarapu wins first prize at Trieste Contemporanea

85Tiina Sarapu won the first prize at the Italian Trieste Contemporanea Design Contest.
Glass artist Tiina Sarapu’s design sketch “Roundelay” won the first prise in Italian Trieste Contemporanea Design Contest. “Roundelay” is based on the skirt motives of the Estonian national costume and on the traditions of Venetian glass. The first prise was shared by Sarapu and a team of Swiss-Italian designers. According to Prof Mare Saare, a member of the jury, it was simplicity, practicality and multi-functionality that distinguished “Roundelay” from the rest of the works in the competition, the number of which was over 200.