Awards ┃Sustainable Design Collective
Trophies made for the Sustainable Design Awards 2025.
The Sustainable Design Collective (SDC) - a think tank dedicated to identifying and promoting best practice within the design industry - commissioned Christoph Studio to create the trophies for the Sustainable Design Awards 2025, celebrating businesses that are leading the way in sustainable design through their projects and practices.
The awards were developed in collaboration with SDC co-founder Harsha Kotka, who approached the studio in recognition of its ongoing work with reuse. This focus informed the initial design concept and was realised through the use of offcuts produced during Christoph Studio’s furniture-making process. These offcuts are generated when forming the distinctive curved legs of stools made from reused office desks.
The trophies’ dish-like form, with a pronounced belly and finely tapered edges, is created by joining the offcuts back-to-back, flat to flat. Several of these forms are then stacked and shaped to create the final circular profile.
Each trophy reuses the offcuts from seven stools made from reused office desks.
The original rough bandsawn surfaces are refined using traditional woodworking tools, including a planer and a cabinet scraper—a shaped piece of mild steel with a sharpened edge that follows the dished curve of the form.
The word WINNER and the SDC logo are laser engraved in-house into each trophy. In the spirit of the Sustainable Design Collective, every recipient is considered a role model and, therefore, a winner.
Seven well-deserved recipients were presented with the trophies and were visibly delighted by their achievement.
“SDC was delighted to work with Christoph Studio to create the unique trophies for the 2025 Sustainable Design Awards.
Christoph Studio highlighted the ‘art of the possible’ in reusing waste materials to create our trophies. Working collaboratively with SDC co-founder, Harsha Kotak, Christoph demonstrated his creativity and attention to detail. The end result was a standout example of the opportunities for supposedly waste materials. Working to a tight deadline, Christoph embraced the project with enthusiasm and professionalism.”
Trophy made from offcuts in American Maple
Trophy made from offcuts in English Ash
Trophy made from offcuts in English Oak
