Press Release
Daniel Devadder Is Honored with the Golden A' Design Award for Grace Lounge Chair in Furniture Design
Daniel Devadder acknowledged for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Golden A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category for Grace Lounge Chair by Daniel Devadder, designed for Daniel Devadder Interior Design. The result belongs to the 2022 - 2023 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.
About the Golden A' Design Award
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
About Grace Lounge Chair
Grace is a design that translates feelings that a single word can not describe. This in combination with the conviction that form does not always follow function, but should be able to follow emotion. The result is a sculpture-like design made from a 3D printed frame, partially covered with foam for added comfort and an elastic yet durable fabric. From an aesthetic point of view, it has an elegance and shape that is somehow timeless. It can match different finishes and materials and blend into different environments: from high-end use in a hotel lobby to furniture in a private home.
About Daniel Devadder
Daniel Devadder is an interior designer who tries to show that design can be more than only practical. He believes design, especially furniture, should have a soul and add emotion to the space it resides in besides being practical. Growing up in a mixed family, with roots in Congo, he has always had a natural curiosity about other cultures with their specific customs and traditions, resulting in an open mind that works like a large library to choose from and apply elements of in his designs.
Award Record
This recognition makes Daniel Devadder 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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/141711
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/141711
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!141711
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/333040
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://bit.ly/devadderdaniel
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
- Grace Lounge Chair
- Function
- Lounge Chair
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Maroon, Brown, Sienna, Black and Indian Red
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Daniel Devadder Interior Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Daniel Devadder
- Country
- Belgium
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #141711
Credits
- Image Credits
- Ypsilon Business Photography, 2022
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Grace provides a certain wow factor and the way it is interpreted changes from person to person, from feeling to feeling, making it a unique experience. An experience that will always be linked to your thoughts and how you feel.
- Inspiration
- Grace was a way to translate feelings and emotions a single word can not describe. Inspired by nature with its complexity hidden behind elegant and flawless forms. This in combination with the conviction that form doesn't and shouldn't always follow function, but rather should be able to follow emotion. They merge together. It's something you strongly see in dance. Ballet and tango for example. Translating emotions and feelings by transcending oneself in a form or movement.
- Research
- The design arises as a reflection of emotions that you cannot capture with a simple word, but rather express through a movement, a certain flow. The spiritual, indescribable and mysterious is what resulted in the design.
- Challenge
- Finding a material that could follow the shapes while having the strength and rigidity to support the weight of an adult without deforming. He wanted to use a fully recycled plastic to 3D print the design. However, this was not yet possible with the available materials, which at the same time had to meet the necessary strength requirements, etc. He had the chair upholstered. Even though an elaboration without any upholstery would be perfectly conceivable. If a pattern would be cut by machine, some details from the upholstery could be finished in a more refined way.
- Realization and Technology
- 3D printed structure. The material used is called Tusk SolidGrey3000 which is the world's first Stereolithography material that combines a high degree of stiffness with high impact resistance, available exclusively at Materialise. The chair was tested from 2000N to 6000N. The displacement in the seating area ranges from 2mm to 5mm (for 2000N and 6000N respectively) and 3.5mm to 11mm at the top of the back rest. The fabric used for the manual upholstery is Tonus 4, colour 0610, from Kvadrat because of its flexibility and durability. On the outsides of the design, high resilience foam is used for added comfort.
- Operation and Interaction
- As you walk around it, from every angle you discover something new that changes the interpretation of what you see. Some may recognise a bird, a plant, a child may think of a ghost. This gives the design a certain personality and soul. It has an elegance and form that somehow is timeless. It could go with different finishes and materials and fit in different settings. From high-end use in the lobby of a hotel to furniture in a private home. Even when not in use, the design leaves behind a kind of sculpture that enhances the space it resides in.
- Project Duration and Location
- End of December 2020: First sketch. January 2021: First digital plans. June 17, 2021: 3D printed structure was delivered. March 11, 2022: Collection of the fully upholstered and finished chair in Antwerp.
- Specifications
- Width 900mm x Depth 910mm x Height 680mm
- Keywords
- Furniture, chair, productdesign, lounge, seating, indoor, organic, 3Dprint, stereolithography, Belgium
