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BEST Sorpresa Range Hoods Collection Wins
2012 GOOD DESIGN Award
HARTFORD, Wis., March 21, 2013 – BEST ® , a leading designer of luxury range hoods, today
announced that its Generation II of The Sorpresa ® Collection of Italian-inspired range hoods
has won the 2012 GOOD DESIGN Award from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture
and Design and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. This is the
second year in a row that the Sorpresa Collection has won such an award.
The Sorpresa Generation II Collection was created as an expansion to the original Sorpresa
Collection and includes Fusion, Intrigue, Sphera and Sun. The full Sorpresa Collection includes
13 unique range hood designs that challenge perceptions of what a range hood can look like
(Intrigue pictured below, left).
Sorpresa, which means “surprise” in Italian, takes on shapes and styles that are designed to
immediately become the focal point of any kitchen, while still delivering the world-class ventilation
technology expected from a BEST kitchen ventilation product.
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One of the world’s largest and most
distinguished design competitions, the GOOD
DESIGN Award program presents awards
annually to products that exhibit high design
aesthetics and innovation. Winning
manufacturers are those that stretch the
envelope beyond what is considered ordinary
product and consumer design. The Sorpresa
Generation II Collection was chosen as a
winner in the “Kitchen/Appliances” category
and was selected from several thousand
manufacturers from more than 50 countries.
Last year, the Vertigo Double model, from the
Sorpresa Generation I Collection, received the
2011 GOOD DESIGN Award.
“We are constantly hearing from our customers that our BEST Sorpresa Range Hoods look like
artwork and take their kitchen from simple to stunning,” says Brian Wellnitz, marketing manager,
kitchen ventilation, BEST. “We are honored and flattered by the growing accolades the Sorpresa
Collection has garnered since its US launch in 2011.”
The complete line of 13 designs are available in three categories: Island hoods, called Gloss,
Secret, Sphera and Vertigo Double; Chimney hoods, called Dune, Eclisse, Fusion, Intrigue,
Modulare, Sun, Surf and Lipstick; and a Ceiling hood called Cirrus.
Since its debut in 2011, the BEST Sorpresa Collection has received awards from several
magazines and associations, including Kitchen + Bath Business, “KBCulture” and the American
Society of Interior Designers (ASID), which awarded the collection the “Imagine Top Pick 2011” at
the Architectural Digest Home Design Show.

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At the 2013 Architectural Digest Home Design Show, BEST will display models from The
Sorpresa Generation I and II Collection as well two prototypes for Generation III range hood
designs. As they are named in Europe, the Overside (pictured below, left) and Fluttua (pictured
below, right) will first be available in Europe in 2013, according to Wellnitz. BEST will also feature
the new optional white-glass panel for the Cirrus range hood at the Architectural Digest Show this
year. “We are excited to see the reaction to these new prototypes as we consider our plans for
2014,” Wellnitz says.
To visualize how any of the 13 range hoods from the BEST Sopresa Collection will look in a
variety of kitchen motifs, BEST offers an online tool, available on BESTsorpresa.com. The
Sorpresa Visualizer tool enables designers and their clients to see and share the new design
experience.
For more information on the BEST Sorpresa Collection, visit www.BESTsorpresa.com. To view
the full line of BEST products, visit www.BESTrangehoods.com.
For the full Architectural Digest Home Design Show Press Kit from Broan-NuTone, contact Katy
Heaton at Griffin & Company.
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