Press Release
Nio Life Is Honored with the A' Design Award for Home Away from Home Furniture in Furniture Design
Nio Life acknowledged for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Home Away from Home Furniture by Nio Life has been granted the A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the A' Design Award Means
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
About Home Away from Home Furniture
Home Away from Home is a furniture series that includes poufs, tea stools and lamps for storage and lighting. The series is made from leftover materials from automobile manufacturing, such as surplus seat belt fabric, airbag fabric, leather and metal offcuts, together with Karuun wood. The lamp can be placed in the middle of a room, on a dining table or on a balcony. A leather band allows the Cotton Cloud lamp to be hung. The poufs come in three sizes and trims and can serve as extra seating.
About Nio Life
NIO Life is NIO's original design lifestyle brand, integrating global design resources and collaborating with independent designers and top design schools in the UK, Italy, Scandinavia, and Asia to create a joyful lifestyle with products that represent progressive attitudes, good stories, and quality designs.
Award Record
This recognition makes Nio Life a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. All of the awards belong to the 2021 - 2022 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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/136345
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/136345
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!136345
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/327128
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
- Home Away from Home Furniture
- Function
- Furniture
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Dark Gray, Gray, Silver, Dark Slate Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Nio Life
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #136345
Credits
- Team
- NIO
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This furniture series such as end poufs, tea stools and lamps for both storage and lighting, is made of leftovers in automobile manufacturing. Following the NIO design approach, this series combines aesthetics, innovation and care altogether, creating a soft and comfortable atmosphere for the home.
- Inspiration
- Blue Sky Lab "Home away from home" concept furniture series is mainly made ofthree kinds of car-grade materials, namely surplus seat belt fabric, airbag material and Haptex leather in automobile manufacturing, creating fashionable collections through recycling.
- Research
- At Auto Shanghai 2021, NIO Life displayed the Blue Sky Lab, a fashion project about auto recycling. Recycled leftovers in auto manufacturing are used to produce fashion collections with an exclusive logo of auto recycling, conveying the environmental protection through material recycling. NIO expects the Blue Sky Lab to create a pleasant and sustainable lifestyle for people. This series will also be a long-term one further collaborating with global designers and brands to launch new products.
- Challenge
- The challenge in innovation is how to convey the understanding of sustainability to users through NIO design in a unique style. The "Home Away from Home" Concept Furniture Series is exactly an exploration that Blue Sky Lab launches to pioneer future home lifestyles.
- Realization and Technology
- Pegasus waste: Nappa leather, Fly fabric and seatbelt in Vetiver Terracotta and Skyline colors. Waste of seat foams and textile backings. Made with recycled materials from airbag fabric of NIO, metal/leather leftovers, and Karuun wood.
- Operation and Interaction
- You can place the lamp in the middle of the room, on a dining table, or outside on the balcony. The leather band allows you to hang up the Cotton Cloud. The POUFF Collections comes in 3different sizes and trims and can be used as extra seating or to decorate an unused corner of any room.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was launched in December 2020, and debuted at Shanghai International Automobile Exhibition in April 2021.
