2026 | Professional

French Design Awards Silver Winner

.Auberge Weighted Silk Mask: Designed Around Sleep Better

Entrant

France Auberge Group Sarl

Category

Product Design - Personal Care

Client's Name

Auberge

Country / Region

France

The Auberge Weighted Silk Sleep Mask is designed around one essential purpose: to help people sleep better by creating a darker, softer, and more settled environment for rest.
Sleep can be easily disturbed by ambient light, physical discomfort, unstable fit, and the difficulty of winding down. Auberge brings these factors together in one wearable sleep design, combining gentle weight, ergonomic blackout, skin-friendly silk, and five distinctive visual expressions.
Unlike a conventional lightweight eye mask that simply covers the eyes, Auberge introduces a controlled amount of weight to create a soft sense of enclosure around the eye area. The added weight helps the mask settle naturally against the face while giving the wearer a more noticeable feeling of being gently held. The challenge was not to make the mask feel heavier, but to make weight feel softer.
To achieve this, Auberge developed DPT SoftPress™, a distributed-pressure construction that spreads the internal weighted elements across a broader contact surface, reducing concentrated pressure while preserving the calm, enveloping sensation of weight.

PerFit® ergonomic contouring follows the changing geometry around the nose bridge, temples, and lower eye area to reduce light leakage and maintain a more stable blackout fit through natural sleep movement. ProT Silk® 6A-grade, 22-momme silk creates a smooth, breathable, low-friction surface for prolonged contact with the delicate eye area.
The collection is expressed through five design themes: Purple Mist Sleep, Rainfall Sleep, Courtyard Sweet Sleep, Soft Woven Sleep, and Fireside Sleep. Inspired by lavender dusk, a garden after rain, sunlit southern courtyards, natural woven textures, and the warmth of a winter fireplace, each theme translates a different atmosphere of rest into its own color and emotional tone.
Together, these elements work toward the same goal: reducing sensory disturbance, improving comfort, and helping the wearer settle into a more protected state for sleep.
Auberge transforms the eye mask from a simple blackout accessory into a personal sleep environment—one designed to make better sleep feel softer, more familiar, and easier to enter.

Credits

Product manager
Anna Lee
Marketing Manager
Yolène
Designer
Anaïs
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