Garmont ski boot is “best of the best”
14/06/2012
In 2011, Garmont won a Design Index award from Italy’s Association for Industrial Design (ADI). Now, the ADI has singled out the Masterlite for its “Premio dei Premi” or “best of the best” award.
The boot is a lightweight, streamlined, elegant ski mountaineering boot designed by MM Design, a creative design agency based in the Italian Alpine province of South Tyrol. Its shell is constructed from Arkema’s thermoplastic elastomer Pebax in what Garmont describes as a web-frame design, “reduced to its critical elements for a solid structure with ultralight weight”. The hardware is simple, effective, and fast, the Treviso-based footwear brand insists. Its sole structure is stiff, springy and supportive. In addition, the Masterlite has a specifically designed lining, which has the proprietary name G-Fit Light. This too is ultralight, as well as being “fully custom-thermoformable and very supportive”.
President of the Italian senate, Renato Schifani, presented the award at a special ceremony on June 12 at an event to mark a national day of innovation. The country’s minister for education, universities and research, Francesco Profumo, was also in attendance.
Dr Achille Morlin, president of Garmont, said immediately after the event: “We are honoured and very proud of this accolade which is testimony to our passion for clean, innovative product design and recognition of our commitment to offering our customers best-in-class products designed to enhance outdoor performance.”
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