Press Release
Berkley Furniture by Ning Huang, Huangkun Cai and Yan Huang Receives the A' Design Award in Furniture Design
The international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Ning Huang, Huangkun Cai and Yan Huang for furniture design
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Berkley Furniture by Ning Huang, Huangkun Cai and Yan Huang, designed for Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd., has been granted the A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2024 - 2025 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 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.
Regarding Berkley Furniture
Berkley is a furniture collection that includes an end table, a coffee table, a corner table and a television stand. The collection is made of chipboard and steel tubing. Parts are joined by two-way screws and plastic screws at the top, so assembly is done by hand without tools. Fabric baskets can be folded for storage and placed in different positions. The flat pack format reduces shipping volume and cost. Shared components across the collection help keep production costs low. Clean lines give the pieces a minimalist appearance.
About Ning Huang, Huangkun Cai and Yan Huang
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
Ning Huang, Huangkun Cai and Yan Huang is a winner of 30 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2020 - 2021 to 2024 - 2025 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/164267
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/164267
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!164267
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/294475
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Berkley Furniture
- Function
- Furniture
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Silver, Dark Slate Gray, Light Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Ning Huang, Huangkun Cai and Yan Huang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #164267
Credits
- Team
- ID Designer：Ning Huang，Huangkun Cai and CMF Designer：Yan Huang
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The Berkeley Furniture Collection showcases minimalist elegance with its clean lines and practical design. Durability and stability are ensured by combining chipboard and steel tubing through hand assembly. This design and material is not only strong but also easy to install. The flat pack design reduces shipping costs and the folding storage basket increases storage space.
- Inspiration
- The Berkley furniture series aims to simplify assembly by eliminating the need for tools. Recognizing that online furniture buyers often struggle with time-consuming and error-prone assembly processes, the design prioritizes ease and efficiency. Through hand-twisting to connect plates and steel tubes, the furniture achieves stability, durability, and enhanced storage capacity.
- Research
- Many companies prioritise low-cost products, which often means limited development budgets and cost-cutting at every stage. It is therefore a challenge to incorporate a tool-free installation concept into budget furniture. The aim of this concept is to demonstrate that tool-free installation concepts and financial gains can indeed coexist if the focus is on optimising design and production, even if the user's assembly experience is optimised and production costs are not increased.
- Challenge
- Ensuring stability and production costs while enabling tool-free assembly was the main challenge for this concept. As a solution, we used tougher steel tubes and chipboard to address stability issues. In addition, sharing components throughout the range was also a solution to reduce costs.
- Realization and Technology
- The Berkley range of furniture is made entirely from chipboard and steel tubing, which ensures product quality while keeping production costs under control. To reduce the size of the package, the fabric baskets can also be folded for storage. The components of the entire range are connected by two-way screws and plastic screws at the top, making it easy to assemble by hand without tools.
- Operation and Interaction
- The Berkley range of furniture is designed for quick assembly and disassembly. The whole structure can be easily assembled with a simple twist of the hand, ensuring stability without the need for complicated tools. Fitted with fabric baskets that can be placed in different positions depending on the use.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in January 2024 and was completed in July 2024 in Shenzhen, China.
- Specifications
- End Table： width 340mm x depth 300mm x height 590mm Coffee Table: width 100mm x depth 500mm x height 460 mm Corner Table：width 288mm x depth 288mm x height 1390 mm TV Stand：width 1100mm x depth 350mm x height 460 mm
- Keywords
- Production Optimized, Flat Pack, Easy Assembly, Adequate storage
