Nominees for the Limburg Design Award and the Harrie Tillie Prize 2025 Announced!

Roermond, December 9, 2024 —The Cuypershuis is proud to announce the nominees for the prestigious Harrie Tillie Prize and Limburg Design Award 2025. Starting April 16, 2025, works by all nominees will be on display at the Cuypershuis. Starting then, visitors can vote for their favorite nominee. Both the jury prize and the people’s choice award will be presented in September 2025.

Design in the Footsteps of Pierre Cuypers
Pierre Cuypers’ legacy has found its way into all sorts of areas. To highlight and encourage this, the City of Roermond has been presenting the biennial design awards at the Cuypershuis since 2003. The Harrie Tillie Prize encourages young talent and honors the dedication of former curator Harrie Tillie. He established this prize specifically to spotlight art by young creators. In 2017, the Limburg Design Award was added to recognize talented established designers. Both awards focus on interior design, a discipline in which Cuypers excelled through his craftsmanship, substantive conviction, and attention to the client’s needs.

Nominees for the 2025 Harrie Tillie Prize:
- Nienke Hoogvliet
- Bouke Bruins
- Bart Lunenburg

The jury sees a clear and innovative direction in the commitment of this generation, which sets it apart from the generations that came before. Attention to social and societal context and current developments plays a major role in this. Like Cuypers, the nominees work in a multidisciplinary manner, are innovative, and are masters of their craft.

Nominees for the Limburg Design Award 2025:
- Simone Post
- Team Thursday
- Studio Truly Truly x Leolux

The jury commends all three designers for the innovative way in which they shape their relationships with clients and for their innovative use of materials. This was the deciding factor in their nomination.

Jury and Selection Process
The nominees were selected by an expert committee and jury that values craftsmanship, originality, conceptual conviction, and the design’s relationship to its social and cultural context.

Selection Committee:
- Fransje Gimbrère - winner of the 2023 Harrie Tillie Prize
- Christoph Brach/RAW COLOR - winner of the 2023 Limburg Design Award
- Chequita Nahar - designer and program manager at the Maastricht Institute of Arts

Jury:
- Hans Smolenaers (chair)—(landscape) architect, involved in the development of the Weerstand site in Roermond, among other projects
- Jeroen Junte - writer on design and architecture
- Annemartine van Kesteren - curator of Design and the City Collection at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
- Annemieke Broeke – collections specialist at the Cuypershuis

About the Awards
The Harrie Tillie Prize and the Limburg Design Award recognize designers who carry on Cuypers’ legacy in a contemporary context. Winners receive a cash prize and benefit from the extensive publicity surrounding these awards, which serves as an important incentive for their continued development.