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Silver A' Design Award in Furniture Design Goes to Cornices New Chinese Furniture by Wei Jingye and Fan Anran
Wei Jingye and Fan Anran recognized for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category for Cornices New Chinese Furniture by Wei Jingye and Fan Anran, designed for Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts. 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 scored 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.
More About Cornices New Chinese Furniture
Cornices is a furniture collection inspired by the eaves of traditional Chinese architecture. The collection includes a seat, a flower stand, a palace lamp and a cabinet rack. Each piece is made of North American black walnut and joined with traditional mortise and tenon structures. The curved eaves form gives the furniture a three-dimensional and layered appearance. The joints are shaped by cutting, carving and polishing, and provide strength and durability. The collection brings traditional Chinese aesthetics into modern interiors.
Award Record
This recognition makes Wei Jingye and Fan Anran a winner of 36 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2016 - 2017 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/169359
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/169359
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!169359
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/180555
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Cornices New Chinese Furniture
- Function
- New Chinese Furniture
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Black, Dark Gray, Dim Gray and Gainsboro
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Wei Jingye and Fan Anran
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #169359
Credits
- Team
- Wei Jingye, Fan Anran, Yu Xiaowei, Gu Mingtian and Hu Nanxi
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Combine cornices with a modern, minimalist design concept. Let the Chinese architectural style naturally integrate into the Chinese furniture, which not only maintains the traditional aesthetic characteristics, but also loses the simplicity and comfort of modern aesthetics. Combining black walnut with traditional mortise and tenon structures, its natural materials and delicate craftsmanship present a delicate, elegant and culturally rich furniture form.
- Inspiration
- Cornices are cleverly applied to the form of the furniture. The cornice design is derived from the eaves of ancient Chinese architecture, symbolizing elegance and freedom, which can make the whole furniture more three-dimensional and dynamic. Through the integration of this traditional Chinese design element, it not only strengthens the visual layering of the furniture, but also further shows the charm of traditional Chinese culture.
- Research
- This design is inspired by the elements of ancient Chinese architectural cornices, through the application of black walnut material and mortise and tenon structure, the cornice series furniture not only has stability and durability, but also highlights the aesthetic characteristics of Chinese design, by integrating traditional Chinese elements into modern homes, creating a Chinese-style home artwork with a sense of the times.
- Challenge
- The design of the cornices series comes from the design elements of the cornices in ancient Chinese architecture, which represent the combination of spatial extension, structural strength and natural aesthetics, but also faces the challenges of balancing function and aesthetics, the complexity of the production process and market acceptance.
- Realization and Technology
- It is mainly made of North American black walnut, is processed and formed by raw material selection and treatment, design and cutting, mortise and tenon structure treatment, carving, surface polishing and finishing. The traditional mortise and tenon joint structure used as the main connecting structure, and through the mutual integration between the woods, it reflects the ingenuity and exquisiteness of the mortise and tenon joint technology, has strong stability and durability.
- Operation and Interaction
- Chinese style seating provides the function of rest, and Chinese flower racks are used to place potted plants to enhance the natural atmosphere of the space. The Chinese palace lamp provides lighting and creates a warm and simple atmosphere, while the Chinese cabinet rack is used to store items and has decorative functions. The series of furniture through the integration of aesthetics, craftsmanship and cultural connotations, jointly build a space with traditional charm, modern comfort and unique artistic atmosphere.
- Project Duration and Location
- The design had started in Shenyang in January 2024, completed in Shenyang in June 2024, and displayed in the museum of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang in June in 2024.
- Specifications
- 420mm x 320mm x 450mm, 420mm x 420mm x 750mm, 1200mm x 350mm x 1850mm, 450mm x 450mm x 1750mm, 1100mm x 380mm x 1850mm. The technical performance of the mortise and tenon structure reflects the natural mechanical properties of wood and the efficient connection method, which has the characteristics of high strength and stability, good deformation resistance, durability and adaptability.
- Keywords
- Eaves, New Chinese Style, Flower Rack, Palace Lantern, Cabinet Rack
