Gemma Bernal Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Suggestions Tableware in Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design

Gemma Bernal honored for bakeware, tableware, drinkware and cookware design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design category for Suggestions Tableware by Gemma Bernal, designed for RAK Porcelain. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 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.

About the Silver A' Design Award

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 Suggestions Tableware

Suggestions is a porcelain tableware collection made for professional kitchens. Each piece answers a practical serving need rather than a formal idea. One dish holds ice above a hidden reservoir, so melted water is kept away from the food. A second version holds dry ice to cool dishes such as sushi and release a light vapour. Another item keeps caviar on ice without mixing the two. Plates with an irregular dot texture separate meat juices from the food. Small porcelain trays allow guests to eat comfortably while standing. Reactive glazes were developed for the collection.

About Gemma Bernal

Gemma bernal, studio is a design studio based in Barcelona with more than 40 years of expirience in product design. Focused on tableware design but also working on all kind of products, like furniture, lamps... Along this 40years of expirience Gemma bernal, design has collected some design awards such as adi fad, from Barcelona and last year a Red dot design award. Gemma bernal, studio works at all different layers, design, develop and market analisis.

Award Record

Gemma Bernal is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.

About the A' Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design Award

The A' Kitchenware Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good kitchenware designs by best kitchenware brands and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to kitchenware designers, product designers, industrial design studios and kitchenware brands from all countries. Typical entries include pots, pans, cutlery, plates, bowls and glasses. The awarded kitchenware designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/kitchenware

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/97860
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/97860
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!97860
Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/237603
Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.gemmabernal.com/portfolio/suggestions/

Media Contact

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Suggestions Tableware
Function: Tableware
Category: Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design
Discipline: Industrial Design
Industry: Furniture & Home and Food & Hospitality
Colors: Black, Light Gray, Gainsboro, Dark Slate Gray and Dim Gray
Images: 5
Client: RAK Porcelain

The Recognition

Laureate: Gemma Bernal
Country: Spain
Recognition: Silver A' Design Award
Edition: 2019 - 2020
Design ID: #97860

Credits

Team: [CEO] Renu Oomen, [Technical Manager] Senthil Kumar, [Marketing Manager] Bertrand Lecante, [Sales manager] Svend Bodry and [Europe manager] Claude Peiffer

Design Details

Unique Properties: This collection focuses on solve the needs of chefs. It's a very extensive collection where you can find items made for sharing on a center table. And items that solve specific situations like the water drops of melted ice. Keep the fresh of caviar on the table. Hide the mess while eating shells like mussels, escargots... and mimic the color finishes with the shells colours. Items for making a buffet more dynamic, easy and enjoyable with little lilies made of porcelain that allow to eat stand up in a comfortable way.
Inspiration: This project it's inspired by chefs for chefs. We want to provide a tool that suggest to chefs how to improve their gastonomic creations. Platforms that enhance the creations. With Suggestions, chefs can express his creations, and the costumer can enjoy each service as a little piece of art.
Research: Our research was focused on talking with chefs for understand the needs and lacks about serving the gastronomic creations. We were focused on provide a tool that suggests creativity, and allow the chefs create unique gastronomic pieces.
Challenge: Investigation about real necesities of the chefs needs. And provide a good tool for improve the creativity on gastronomic services.
Realization and Technology: A tableware collection made of Porcelain with all kind of different production tecnologies such as isostatic press, high preasure injection also we used reactive glazes taylor made developed for this project.
Operation and Interaction: The main quality of this tableware is show the chef creations as good as possible and also keep this food in optimal conditon for best expirience of the final user. One perfect example is the amaze, this dish keeps the ice separated from the melted water. Then the ice keep his frozen form more time and the food never gets soaked. Also in amaze we find a version that you can put carbonic ice in the inside keeping the food (sushi for example) cool and giving a nices fresh smoke that makes a new whole experience. We also find the chill, this items are made for serving caviar on ice but with total secury of not mixing it.
Project Duration and Location: One year and a half designed in Barcelona and produced in UAE by RAK. It was released at Ambiente 2019 in Frankfurt.
Specifications: not relevant. Each item have their own size and package. Lot's of different items all inside a "normal" sizes for any haute cuisine tableware.
Keywords: Tableware, porcelain, gastonomic, chefs