Press Release
Lewis Bench by Weiqiang Yao Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design
Weiqiang Yao honored for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 16, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ Lewis Bench by Weiqiang Yao, designed for Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd., has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2023 - 2024 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About Lewis Bench
Lewis is a modular bench designed for compact modern homes. The bench measures 1200 mm in width, 400 mm in depth and 400 mm in height. A knock-down structure allows flat packaging, which lowers transport costs. The cushion is filled with 28D styling cotton for high resilience, and the metal parts are finished with environmentally friendly paint. The cushion has two sides. One side is upholstered for seating, and the reverse side forms a flat top for storage use. Simple lines and current colors follow contemporary geometric abstraction art.
About Weiqiang Yao
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
Weiqiang Yao is a winner of 17 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted between the 2020 - 2021 and the 2023 - 2024 editions 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. It 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. Typical entries include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. The awarded furniture designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/furniture
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/154447
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/154447
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!154447
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/294475
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Lewis Bench
- Function
- Bench
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- White Smoke, Gainsboro, Light Gray, Brown and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Weiqiang Yao
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #154447
Credits
- Team
- Kunhong Li,Ziwei Wan,Weiqiang Yao,Kaiqiang Hu,Fangqi Luo
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This series of products combines modular design, flat packaging, versatility, and youthful fashion. Flexible combination to meet the diverse needs of modern life.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by contemporary geometric abstraction art, combined with the lifestyle and aesthetics of modern young people, adopted fashion colors and simple lines to add a unique charm to their lives.
- Research
- With the development of the times,the boundaries of home space gradually blurred,people's functional definition of living space has become more and more open,the furniture has long broken through the concept of home. From the previous huge dull to today's miniaturization,lightweight,flexible.Furniture is no longer a simple functional requirements and fill the space props,it is a collection of contemporary lifestyle,functional needs,aesthetics and personality of a carrier.
- Challenge
- This series formulates a series of standardized technology and improves production efficiency. The products have passed pressure, torque, and box tests. Although the KD module disassembly structure has brought great challenges to the design, flat packaging can save more transportation costs, and users can buy higher cost -effective products.
- Realization and Technology
- Kd modular structure,the use of 28D Styling cotton,the overall resilience is high,the metal is environmentally friendly paint,and through the chemical testing of multiple parties.
- Operation and Interaction
- This series of products can cover a number of scenarios in which it can be either upholstered seating or turned into storage furniture.The upholstered cushion has a front and back side,the front side is upholstered,and when turned over it becomes a countertop that can be used for storage.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Shenzhen in January 2023 and completed in Shenzhen in September 2023
- Specifications
- Width 1200 mm x Depth 400 mm x Height 400 mm
- Keywords
- Modular,Multifunctional,Flat packaging,Young fashion,Geometric Composition
