President’s Club FY25: Bedrijfserkenning Awards

260 individually crafted awards, delivered to a five-star hotel in Portugal.

Over dit project

For a prestigious international corporate incentive programme, Fabit designed and produced 260 premium recognition awards celebrating the top performers of the year.

The event brought together the company’s elite achievers for an exclusive retreat across Portugal, from the historic streets of Lisbon to the sun-drenched coast of the Algarve. Each award was personally delivered to the recipient’s hotel room, making the moment of recognition as personal and memorable as the trip itself.

Rather than producing a generic corporate trophy, the brief called for an object that carried the spirit of Portugal within it. The result is a refined award inspired by the iconic Portuguese tile azulejo: the hand-painted ceramic tile that has defined Portuguese architecture and craft for centuries.

Bedrijven

Metaal

Hout en natuurlijke materialen

JAAR

2026

KLANT

Confidential

CATEGORIE

Bedrijven

PRODUCTIETIJD

3 months

De uitdaging

260 awards had to be produced, each individually personalised with the recipient’s name and packaged in its own custom box. Every single step of the process (lacquering, engraving, assembling, packaging, …) had to be executed 260 times, by hand, to the same level of quality.

At the same time, the award had to feel premium and personal. This was not a bulk order for a shelf. It was a piece that would be handed to someone in recognition of an exceptional year, delivered to their room at a five-star hotel in Portugal.

The design process

The brief asked for an award that felt genuinely rooted in that heritage. Early directions explored ceramic surfaces, terrazzo and cork, but fragility and production complexity at scale ruled them out one by one.

Two original concepts were developed in parallel. The first was a vertical wooden totem: architectural, upright, with brass detailing and an engraved azulejo tile motif on the surface. The second reinterpreted the tile itself as a sculptural object: a thick CNC-carved wooden panel with a deep floral relief, mounted on a solid base.

Both concepts went through multiple rounds of prototyping across different wood species, stain tones and finishing techniques. The Fabit team tested everything from natural and warm-toned beech to dark-stained oak, from laser-engraved surfaces to UV-printed details, from solid carved fronts to cut-through layers revealing the brass beneath.

Materialen

The piece is built from three lacquered wooden panels: two flat tile-shaped sections framing a brushed gold brass plate in the centre. The wooden base carries a second brushed brass plate, engraved individually with each recipient’s name.

All wooden components were lacquered in-house by Fabit. The brass plates were finished by hand: high-gloss on the visible edges, brushed on the surfaces, giving the piece a refined contrast between warmth and precision.

Each award was packed in an individual custom box lined with cut-to-shape foam, with a gold foil logo on the lid.

Metaal

Hout en natuurlijke materialen

From Portuguese tile to personal award

The design process started with the destination itself. Portugal is a country of craft: tiles, cork, ceramics, gold filigree. The brief asked for something that felt rooted in that heritage while remaining corporate and refined.

Finding the concept

Several directions were explored, including terrazzo, ceramic-look materials and cork. The tile concept stood out for its balance of cultural resonance, material premium-ness and engraving precision. A dark, stained wood version was selected for the final production run.

Building the object

The award is a study in contrast: the warmth of lacquered dark wood against the cool precision of brushed gold brass. Two tile-shaped wooden panels sit above and below a central brass plate, mounted on a solid base. All edges are carefully rounded, no sharp transitions, no flat breaks. The result reads as a single coherent object.

260 times, by hand

Every award passed through the same sequence: cutting, rounding, lacquering, assembly, engraving, quality check, foam placement, boxing, sleeving. Multiplied by 260. All executed in-house at Fabit’s Antwerp atelier.

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