Bronze Furniture · 2026
Alan Children's Furniture Set
- Bronze A' Design Award 2026 in Furniture
- CLIENT: Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd.
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About Alan Children's Furniture Set
Alan is a children's furniture set designed for children aged three to seven. The collection includes tables, chairs, bookshelves, wall shelves and adjustable coat racks. Shelves and coat racks use screw lifts, so the height can be changed as a child grows and items stay within reach. The sensory table offers hidden storage, a double sided top and magnetic side panels for varied activities. Beech wood forms the structure, while plywood with solid wood veneer is used for large panels to limit deformation. The set suits small homes and kindergartens.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Alan Children's Furniture Set is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Alan Children's Furniture Set is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Alan Children's Furniture Set splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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- Unique Properties
- This collection includes tables, chairs, bookshelves, wall shelves and adjustable coat racks, with core concepts: daily education, lifelong usability, eco-friendliness. Adjustable pieces foster kids’ order by independent access; the sensory table with hidden storage suits diverse activities. Solid wood with natural texture aligns with nature education’s "sensory first" principle, fitting small homes, kindergartens.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Sensory table: Width 790mm x Depth 590mm x Height 510mm
Set: Width 330mm x Depth 360mm x Height 500mm
Bench: Width 790mm x Depth 360mm x Height 500mm - Tags
- children's furniture, sensory table, adjustable height coat rack, rotating bookshelf
- Production Technology
- This series uses beech wood as the structural base. It can resist the wear caused by toddlers' daily play and solve the durability problem.Large components like tabletop and shelf backboards adopt plywood instead of solid wood, addressing both anti-deformation and cost balance. Matched with solid wood veneer and solid wood frame for visual unity, it avoids material dissonance. Solid wood pretreatment, CNC precision machining, safe sanding and eco-friendly spraying ensure product safety and compliance.
- Design Challenge
- The children's furniture market has different needs from parents and kids, and different user groups have different preferences for concepts. The main challenge is to avoid overloading products with too many functions. A single product should focus on 1 - 2 main concepts while still being open to other ideas. It's important to balance educational value and playfulness. If you focus too much on either one, it won't work well. You need to clearly target specific groups. Making a product suitable for everyone will make it lose its unique features.
- Research
- Based on market research of furniture for 3 - 7-year-old children in Europe and America, this project focuses on the core educational ideas of independent exploration, sensory development, and scenario-based learning. By combining market trends, user needs, and early childhood education concepts, it improves accessibility, open play, and features a lightweight design for growth. At the same time, it has neutral colors and smooth lines, so it can match home styles with an aesthetic design.
- Inspiration
- As more parents take educational adaptability as a key consideration when buying children’s furniture, this project redesigns such furniture centering on independent exploration, sensory development and scenario-based learning. It helps parents and educators create child-led spaces, reshaping single-function furniture into an educational scenario solution for 3-7-year-olds to explore independently, learn collaboratively and grow with companionship.
- Project Duration
- The project started in Shenzhen in April 2025 and was completed in Shenzhen in September 2025.
- Operation Flow
- Rooted in the child-led space concept, this furniture series fits 3-7-year-olds. Shelves and coat racks have adjustable screw lifts for easy access. The sensory table-chair set has storage, double-sided tabletops and magnetic side panels, meeting parents’ demands for safety, education, durability, eco-friendliness and kids’ traits of independence, play and collaboration.
