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DesignNewswire · COMO, Italy ·

Note Design Studio Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Embrace Bed in Furniture Design

Note Design Studio honored for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ Embrace Bed by Note Design Studio, designed for Pianca Spa, 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 2021 - 2022 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.

What the Bronze A' Design Award Means

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 Embrace Bed

Embrace is a bed defined by a curved headboard that wraps around the main body of the bed. The curved headboard forms protective shoulders and creates a sheltered, reassuring feeling. The version without an underbed storage container can hold a recessed mattress. Concealed legs raise the structure a few centimeters above the floor, so the bed appears to float. Removable covers, such as the Jazz 30 herringbone fabric and the Nabuk 42 leather cover, are offered in muted shades. The overall form is simple and classic-inspired.

About Note Design Studio

Pianca creates furniture systems and occasional furniture for residential contexts – bedrooms and living rooms – and for the contract market. Our approach to design aims at customising products and places to meet the needs of people whose lifestyles are based on flexibility, mobility and change but who still want to feel at home no matter what.

Award Record

This recognition makes Note Design Studio a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

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

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Media Contact

Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Embrace Bed
Function
Bed
Category
Furniture Design
Discipline
Industrial Design
Industry
Furniture & Home
Colors
Silver, Dark Gray, Light Gray, Rosy Brown and Gainsboro
Images
4
Client
Pianca Spa

The Recognition

Laureate
Note Design Studio
Country
Italy
Recognition
Bronze A' Design Award
Edition
2021 - 2022
Design ID
#129994

Credits

Team
Pianca Spa

Design Details

Unique Properties
The dominating feature of the bed is the curved headboard, which cocoons the main body of the bed, offering protective, reassuring shoulders. The version without an underbed storage container can accommodate a recessed mattress. Concealed legs raise the structure a few centimetres off the floor. The use of removable covers like the Jazz 30 herringbone fabric and the Nabuk 42 leather cover, in muted shades, creates a truly unique and harmonious complement.
Inspiration
Its classic-inspired forms are reassuringly solemn, distinguished, yet also inviting. Produced in collaboration with Note Design Studio, a multidisciplinary studio based in Stockholm, the refined simplicity of the Embrace bed echoes the warmth of an embrace, a retreat to a safe haven. The curved headboard, cocoons the main body of the bed in an inviting, material embrace in a delicate, almost indiscernible appearance of floating.

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