Elle Decoration International Design Awards (EDIDA)

EDIDA is an editorially selected design award: winners in 15 categories are chosen by a vote of the editors-in-chief of the ELLE DECORATION international network (stated as 25 editions), with edition-level suggestions collated at the Paris headquarters and announced during Milan Design Week. There is no paid entry or submission mechanism, so fee-related and pay-for-placement risks are minimal, and the judging body of magazine editors is structurally independent of any sales operation. The award has strong longevity (annual since 2003; 23rd edition in 2025), a verifiable major publisher as organizer, an observable one-winner-per-category cap, published/verifiable past winners, and disclosed event sponsorship. It loses substantial points because it does not disclose a winner rate or candidate-pool size, under the selectivity guard this scores 0 on criterion 3.0 and is retained in the denominator, and because the specific judging criteria and a named judge roster are not published (dashed). Net result: strong on independence, credibility and process transparency, but the undisclosed selectivity figure caps the outcome in the C band.

Founded 2003 · ELLE DECORATION editorial network (ELLE brand, Lagardère Group), coordinated from Paris headquarters · HQ Paris, France · Manufacturing, Product & Engineering · Entry Free

The ELLE DECO International Design Awards (EDIDA), founded in 2003 and coordinated from ELLE Decoration's Paris headquarters, are presented annually across 15 design categories, with winners selected by a vote of the editors-in-chief of the ELLE DECORATION international network (25 editions) and announced during Milan Design Week (Salone del Mobile).

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