Feb

Three models from Mercedes-Benz win the 2009 GOOD DESIGN Award

Stuttgart – The renowned Chicago Athenaeum – Museum of Architecture and Design has given three Mercedes-Benz models a singular honour by presenting the E-Class, the E-Class Coupé and the SLR Stirling Moss with the GOOD DESIGN^® Award – the oldest award for outstanding product design.

The Chicago Athenaeum – Museum of Architecture has been presenting its international GOOD DESIGN^® Award for the world’s most innovative and well-designed products each year since 1950. This year the institution decided to present three Mercedes-Benz models with the GOOD DESIGN^® Award – the E-Class, the E-Class Coupé and the SLR Stirling Moss.

In the previous two years, the jury for the GOOD DESIGN^® Award also recognised the high design quality of Mercedes-Benz automobiles by presenting the award to the GLK and the C-Class.

The former curator of the Museum of Modern Art, Edgar Kaufmann Jr., founded the Chicago Athenaeum – Museum of Architecture sixty years ago, together with the major modern design pioneers Charles and Ray Eames, Russel Wright, George Nelson and Eero Saarinen.

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