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TOCCO made with ECONYL® regenerated nylon has won the Best of NeoCon Gold Award in the Architectural Products category and the Innovation Award.

The thoughtful and beautiful hardware collection was submitted jointly by pba and Aquafil, the makers of ECONYL® regenerated nylon. The TOCCO collection is featured in the Aquafil showroom at The MART.

The Best of NeoCon Awards presented a total of 126 awards for products in 50 categories for Gold, Silver, Sustainability, Innovation, and Business Impact. The winners were selected by a distinguished group of 53 architects, designers, specifiers, enterprise clients, facility managers, and top business media who judged the products on-site at THE MART.

pba goal is to offer designers a collection of inclusive and sustainable door hardware allowing them the option to choose color and texture to design the most inclusive space for all users. TOCCO Collection is a capsule hardware collection of levers and pulls made of ECONYL® regenerated nylon that are sustainable, interchangeable and sensory sensitive.

Committed to environmental preservation and inclusiveness, because sustainability can’t disregard the centrality of the individual, pba is promoting sustainable and inclusive practices within the design industry. The two talks at NeoCon provided an occasion to discuss pba’s TOCCO Collection, showcasing the company’s unwavering dedication to its founding values:

“When we design spaces, we must think about the way people perceive and interact with the environment. We must also think about how the things we create can impact the planet, from how materials are sourced, to where they end up at the end of their service life” says Erica Anesi, CEO of pba.

The grip of the TOCCO Collection is made of ECONYL® nylon, a soft material with a temperature similar to that of the environment, minimizing thermal stimulation. All TOCCO hardware is made with ECONYL® nylon and stainless steel and it is constructed for easy disassembly and recycling at end of life.

“We are very proud to partner with innovative companies like pba to create architectural solutions that make life better for people and the planet,” says Maria Giovanna, Chief Communications Officer for Aquafil. “The design community has truly embraced ECONYL® regenerated nylon to be part of their innovation strategy and it is exciting to see these solutions come to market and be recognized by the industry.”

pba collaborated with RainlightSTUDIO and Kay Sargent, Cognitive and Sensory Wellbeing Design Consultant, to offer designers a complete range of door hardware, levers and pulls, giving them the option to choose color and texture to design the most inclusive space for all users.

Sargent is a recognized expert on neurodiversity and workplace inclusion and an award-winning designer. She is a principal and the director of thought leadership in HOK’s Interiors group, leading project teams to solve clients’ business and organizational challenges related to real estate business process, strategic planning, workplace strategy and change management. Kay’s design expertise were leveraged by pba and RainlightSTUDIO to reimagine a complete range of door hardware, levers and pulls, providing choice of color and texture to design the most inclusive space.

Kay Sargent was also recognized by Interior Design with the 2024 HiP Designer Lifetime Of HiPness Award at the annual NeoCon event. The HiP Awards celebrate the most innovative people and products in the commercial design industry and in particular designers whose work has made a positive contribution to the societal and environmental well-being.

“To allow all employees to thrive, office designs need to remain fluid and adaptable. Employers can improve employee wellness and productivity by offering a wide range of choices, allowing people to continually select the best space for their individual needs. All we know about designing for inclusion should be applied to every element within the build environment… including the hardware. No detail is too small, as they all impact the experience we have and they add to the overall solution.” says Kay Sargent.

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At the design talks organized at NeoCon, pba introduced the Research conducted by the University of Venice IUAV, aimed at exploring the perception of inclusion and sustainability regarding TOCCO. 
On June 10th and 11th at NeoCon, pba and Kay Sargent discussed about products role in Sustainability and Inclusion with Aquafil and experts sparking meaningful conversations on circular economy and inclusive design.

Panelists:
Melissa Dallal, IIDA NCIDQ | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Candon Murphy, LEED GA | HOK
Xiomara Lento, Ind. IIDA | pba
Raphael Williams, WELL AP | Allsteel

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A panel conversation about Circular Economy, Sensory Sensitivity and Regenerable Material as the New Paradigm.

pba discussed about products Role in sustainability and inclusion in a conversation with Tarkett and Aquafil sparking meaningful conversations on circulareconomy and inclusive design.

From October 27th to February 4th at Museo Civico di Bassano del Grappa – Vicenza

We are the ones who open doors of universities, stores, hospitals, and buildings that have turned from places to icons. We are the ones that « even a pull tells who we are, so let’s make it even better »; the ones that « sustainability is consistency unveiling in the long run, so let’s pay attention now ».

We are the ones who team up with the best partners and who have women in charge. Those who enhance the function of a grab bar in a bathroom, of a pull on a drawer. Strong as steel and always changing like copper. We are the ones who make you enter, leave, go, stay and return. We are the ones who never make just for the sake of making, but always moved by the ambition of creating good and beautiful objects for everyone.

We are those who question the morality within creating. Because imagining, developing and manufacturing, bringing into the world a form that was not there is, above all, an act of responsibility worthy of deep thought. This drive to focus on the essential before acting is what makes us feel connected to Dorothea Lange. The photographer who said « the camera is a tool that teaches people how to see without the camera » much resembles us, our hints to a broader horizon, our view of business ethics as the tool to make the world a better place for all.

     

Realised in collaboration with CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia di Torino, the exhibition will present 200 shots which span the career of the famous American photographer, with particular emphasis on her production of the 1930s and 40s. Developing a very personal and incisive style in those years, she created photos to foreground themes which are still extremely relevant today: the climate crisis, migration and the various forms of discrimination which characterised the Great Depression in the United States. Her idiom is both blunt and brimming with sophisticated modernist suggestions; her works live ‘beyond time’, given their continued capacity to stimulate reflection and debate in our day. The highlight and novelty of the exhibition is the in-depth look at the origin of the famous, iconic Migrant Mother: a sequence of five shots made by Lange to find the perfect one, together with other powerful photos of migrants taken in that camp, goes into creating a display that is both fascinating and educational. Descriptions of the images will aid visitors in comprehending the process by which an icon came into being.