Meet The Prodigies Of A+D

The Prodigy, sponsored by Cosentino, is the INDE.Award honouring the emerging creative who sparks trends and thinks differently; whose work pushes the boundary of design.

Lorene Faure and Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui of Bean Buro

BY Andrew McDonald

July 7th, 2017

Tags: cosentino, INDE Awards 2017, INDE. Awards, The Prodigy

Forward-thinking and compassionate, Cosentino Group is a leader in accentuating the inherent sophistication of spaces. We’ve been thrilled to have partnered with Cosentino for the 2017 INDE.Awards Prodigy award. Check out the official results of the INDE.Awards here.

Largely due to its staggering investment in research and development, Cosentino Group has succeeded in revolutionising the worlds of architecture and design on a global scale, and we can think of no one better to represent the face of a prodigal talent going forward.

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