Press Release
Manolo Duran Diseno Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Avant Bathroom Furniture in Bathroom Furniture and Sanitary Ware Design
Manolo Duran Diseno recognized for bathroom furniture and sanitary ware design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
COMO, Italy, April 19, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Bathroom Furniture and Sanitary Ware Design category for Avant Bathroom Furniture by Manolo Duran Diseno, designed for Grupo Bono. The award was conferred within 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 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.
Regarding Avant Bathroom Furniture
Avant, a collection of suspended furniture with a design contemporary and timeless beauty, which exalts the simplicity of the rectangular shape. A robust and minimalist perimeter frame in relief, encloses the profile of the suspended furniture. The fronts are assembled, thanks to the exclusive brushed aluminum profile, a distinctive feature of the collection, which allows different thicknesses of top and/or glass to be joined, creating an asymmetrical and balanced relationship. Sight and touch coexist in a dialectical relationship, in a multisensory composition through shapes and materials.
About Manolo Duran Diseno
Before it happens you have to dream it... Since its inception, it has understood design as a strategic activity that is not limited to styling, but begins with the discovery of an opportunity, constantly seeking new perspectives and ideas with which to redefine services, products and experiences, providing value and innovation. For more than twenty years collaborating with a wide variety of human teams from different industrial sectors, they have contributed the experience in each project, which allows the transmission of knowledge, processes and innovation between industries and sectors.
Award Record
With this recognition, Manolo Duran Diseno is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2020 - 2021 and the 2024 - 2025 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Bathroom Furniture and Sanitary Ware Design Award
The A' Sanitary Ware Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good bathroom product designs by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to sanitary ware designers, bathroom furniture designers, industrial design studios and ceramic artists from all countries. Typical entries include toilets, sinks, bathtubs, showers, bidets and faucets. The awarded sanitary ware designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/sanitary-ware
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/171587
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/171587
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!171587
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/275704
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://manoloduran.com
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
###
Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Avant Bathroom Furniture
- Function
- Bathroom Furniture
- Category
- Bathroom Furniture and Sanitary Ware Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Architecture
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Gray, Dark Gray, Dim Gray and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Grupo Bono
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Manolo Duran Diseno
- Country
- Spain
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #171587
Credits
- Image Credits
- All Images: Photographer (In-Imagen), Designer (Manolo Durán), Name of Work (Avant Colection), Year of Image (2024)
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The Avant collection proposes a bathroom furniture with an integrated washbasin, doors with an exclusive profile that combine wood, stone and glass, together with the rest of the container elements and a unique backlit mirror, forming a personal bathroom furnishing, expressed through the minimalism of the shapes. Avant is an exercise in abstraction and dynamism. The pieces are assembled at different depths, creating an asymmetrical and balanced relationship with thin horizontal lines of their fr
- Inspiration
- Two concepts: the play of volumes and transparencies, plus the combination of materials. The inspiration comes from the contrast of lacquered unicolor surfaces against textures such as stones or wood with their natural imperfections, as well as the integrated solid surface washbasin and smoked glass. Complex vs. simple... Uniqueness for plurality..., to create a concept of bathroom furniture that is unique for the majority of users, where it can combine harmoniously with the rest of the elements
- Research
- Extensive market research conducted by our client, as well as historical knowledge of the actual needs of users, provides us with information to place the product in the right range. Different analyses of trends in the habitat sector give us enough information to determine which range of colours and materials we should select. Our cultural background and accumulated experience in the design of home furnishings mark the formal lines of our design.
- Challenge
- The biggest challenge is to find the perfect balance between aesthetics, form, materials and technologies, with an adjusted manufacturing cost price. Considering that our client is part of a medium segment with high production and turnover. High visual impact + maximum functionality // High productivity + low cost.
- Realization and Technology
- This design is developed with ergonomic standards and 3D creation processes. Always after an exhaustive creative process of sketches and models, working on the colors and textures with collaborating suppliers of our studio. Market analysis and previous products showed us the way to follow in this design that is incorporated into an extensive program of washbasins and container elements for the firm Akua belonging to Grupo Bono. The design is developed with sustainable materials such as chipboard and MDF. The construction process is developed in the Grupo Bono factory, which has the highest production technology in the furniture manufacturing industry.
- Operation and Interaction
- The furniture in the Avant collection is simple to use. Doors and drawers open with cushioned closure. The Avant mirror has a rotation and approach system for the magnifying lens, practicable by hand.
- Project Duration and Location
- This Project started in Valencia (SPAIN) in June 2023 and is currently in the last phase of completion.
- Specifications
- Width x Depth x Height Avant furniture 60/80/100/120 x 48 x 57 cm Avant Column 100/ x 27 x 120 cm Avant Mirror 60/80/100/120 x 3 x 70 cm
- Keywords
- Design, creativity, bathoom, furniture, vanity, mirror, avant, collection
