Press Release
Hourglass Multifunctional Shelf by Yu Ren Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Furniture Design
Yu Ren 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/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category for Hourglass Multifunctional Shelf by Yu Ren, designed for Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd.. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
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 Hourglass Multifunctional Shelf
Hourglass is a multifunctional shelf that combines a coat rack, a storage shelf and a lamp in one piece of furniture. The frame is made of three colored stainless steel elements, and two boards of different sizes serve as the laminates. The boards and the metal frame are joined with angle iron screws. A screw at the top of the frame works as a coat hook. The lamp can be detached and carried to other places, and its low temperature light source does not heat up. Hourglass measures 500 mm in width, 500 mm in depth and 1700 mm in height.
About Yu Ren
China's emerging furniture designer-Ren Yu, he is an interesting furniture designer, loves life, and has always been passionate about new things. For Ren Yu, design is not an empty concept, let alone a popular element. It is an insight into rooted life. Expressing his own thinking through design; for design, in addition to form and function, he seeks the beauty of the text of the product, trying to create a dialogue with the user through the product.
Award Record
Yu Ren is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
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/116614
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/116614
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!116614
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/294475
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Hourglass Multifunctional Shelf
- Function
- Multifunctional Shelf
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Gray, Black, Dark Slate Gray and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yu Ren
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #116614
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Hourglass is a multi-functional furniture, the combination of multiple basic functions to achieve "one plus one more than two" design concept. Hourglass not only to meet the basic needs, but also to give people a sense of experience, happiness products. Hourglass suitable for multi-scene use, its lamp source is a low-temperature light source, luminous no heat.
- Inspiration
- Design inspiration comes from the art of time. The hourglass is the symbol of time, and the charm of time affects the tide ups and downs, years change. When the morning sun was born, the hourglass was a "coat rack "; at noon, it was a" shelf "; when night fell, it became a "lamp ". The change of different roles reminds people to follow the direction of time, perceive the years and harvest exquisite life.
- Research
- With modern people's work, overtime is getting busier and busier, every night tired back home, we mechanically touch the switch, throw away bags, clothing. This is not a positive way of life. So we have investigated more than two hundred people and studied their living habits. We hope to solve the dissatisfaction in daily life, find people's daily life needs, and improve people's happiness. Based on these, we combine the opinions provided by the participants and hope to combine people's needs and develop a product to simplify people's doing tedious and boring things, as well as interactive and fun products.
- Challenge
- The biggest challenge in the process of realization and research is to realize "one plus one more than two ", which combines the two basic functions properly, not only to meet the basic needs, but also to further provide users with fun. Happiness is the biggest challenge in research.
- Realization and Technology
- Hourglass shelf consists of three colored stainless steel, two environmental protection plates of different sizes as the laminate. Laminate and metal stainless steel are connected with angle iron screws. The screw at the top of the rack can be used as a coat hook. The user can take off the lamp and use it in different scenarios.
- Operation and Interaction
- You can put bags, clothes and other items on the shelf, then bring the hourglass lamp to the sofa, read a book leisurely, or use it in your courtyard to enjoy a moment of silence at night.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Shenzhen in July 2020 and finished in Shenzhen in January 2021.
- Specifications
- Width 500mm depth 500mm height 1700mm
- Keywords
- shelf, floor lamp, coat rack, furniture, multifunction, lighting
