Manolo Duran Design Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Icon Bedroom in Furniture Design

Manolo Duran Design honored for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Icon Bedroom by Manolo Duran Design, designed for Manolo Duran Desing, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

The Silver A' Design Award Explained

The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.

Regarding Icon Bedroom

Cosmo collection proposes an ordered and harmonious universe, of functionality and practicality combined with an aesthetic of regular and strict forms, for the most intimate and personal space. The set of the Icon headboard with the Noa container elements, form a personal bedroom furnishing, expressed through the minimalism of the forms. The thin horizontal and vertical lines host soft courtesy lighting that, together with the metal legs and harmoniously selected materials, create a powerful visual image.

About Manolo Duran Design

Before it happens you have to dream it... Since its inception, it has understood design as a strategic activity that is not limited to styling, but begins with the discovery of an opportunity, constantly seeking new perspectives and ideas with which to redefine services, products and experiences, providing value and innovation. For more than twenty years collaborating with a wide variety of human teams from different industrial sectors, they have contributed the experience in each project, which allows the transmission of knowledge, processes and innovation between industries and sectors.

Award Record

With this recognition, Manolo Duran Design is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

About the A' Furniture Design Award

The A' Furniture Design Award is an international furniture competition recognizing good furniture designs by best furniture designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to furniture designers, product designers, industrial design studios and furniture brands from all countries. Entries typically include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. Awarded furniture designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/furniture

About A' Design Award & Competition

A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

Press Resources

Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/113298
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/113298
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!113298
Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/275704
Further Information from the Laureate: http://manoloduran.com

Media Contact

Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Icon Bedroom
Function: Bedroom
Category: Furniture Design
Discipline: Industrial Design
Industry: Furniture & Home
Colors: Dark Gray, Gray, Dark Olive Green, Dark Slate Gray and Dim Gray
Images: 5
Client: Manolo Duran Desing

The Recognition

Laureate: Manolo Duran Design
Country: Spain
Recognition: Silver A' Design Award
Edition: 2020 - 2021
Design ID: #113298

Credits

Image Credits: All Images: Photographer (Fotodisseny), Designer (Manolo Durán), Name of Work (Eos Cosmo), Year of Image (2020)

Design Details

Unique Properties: The set of the Icon headboard with the Noa container elements, form a personal bedroom furnishing, expressed through the minimalism of the forms. Icon is an exercise in abstraction and dynamism. The pieces are assembled at different depths, creating an asymmetrical and balanced relationship with thin horizontal and vertical lines that host soft courtesy lighting. The proposal turns the headboard into a canvas of geometries and shadows that create a powerful visual image. New concepts and textures are the essence.
Inspiration: Inspiration arises from the contrast of elements, night and day, soft surfaces versus rough, heavy versus light, complex versus simple… Uniqueness for plurality, creating a singular bedroom for the majority of users. I can't forget that my client's order is, design for the majority.
Research: An extensive market study carried out by our client, as well as the historical knowledge of the real needs of the users, provides us with information to place the product in the appropriate range. Different analysis of trends in the habitat sector gives us enough information to determine what color range and materials we should select. Our cultural background and accumulated experience in the design of home furniture, mark the formal lines of our design.
Challenge: The biggest challenge is finding the perfect balance between aesthetics, shape, materials and technologies, with an adjusted manufacturing cost price. Taking into account that our client is part of a medium segment with high production and turnover. High visual impact + maximum functionality // High productivity + low cost.
Realization and Technology: This design is developed with ergonomic standards and 3D creation processes. Always after an exhaustive creative process of sketches and models, working the colors and textures with collaborating suppliers of our studio. Market analysis and previous products, showed us the way to follow in this design that is incorporated into an extensive program of heads and container elements for the GCH firm. The design is developed with sustainable materials such as chipboard and MDF. The construction process is developed in the GCH factory, which has the highest production technology in the furniture manufacturing industry.
Operation and Interaction: Cosmo collection offers multiple possibilities of configuration of its container modules, beds, wardrobes and dressing rooms; in addition to the infinite options for combining tones, textures and finishes, to create exclusive spaces that fulfill all your dreams. New concepts and textures, with five oak and walnut wood tones (Polar, Tundra, Habana, Elegant, Legend), combined with five lacquered colors (White, Gray, Basalt, Cobalt, Slate) plus three marble textures (Essence, Cosmic, Luxor), to make the combination that best suits the environment we need. Because the original is always different !!
Project Duration and Location: This Project started in July 2019 and ended in September 2020.
Specifications: Width x Depth x Height ICON head (mattress 1500) 3040 x 54 x 1100 mm 2 Drawer Side Table 653 x 479 x 361 mm Table 1 Drawer + 1 Container 653 x 479 x 533 mm 3 Drawer Coffee Table 653 x 479 x 533 mm 4 Drawer Chest 1003 x 479 x 705 mm Sifonier 5 Drawers +1 Container 653 x 479 x 1221 mm Sifonier 7 Drawers 653 x 479 x 1221 mm
Keywords: Design, creativity, bedroom, furniture, headboard, side tables, icon, noa, cosmo