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Bisu Bed by Matteo Congiu Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design
Matteo Congiu 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 announced that Bisu Bed by Matteo Congiu, designed for OTQ Design, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category. The award was conferred within 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 scored 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.
About Bisu Bed
Bisu is a bed made entirely of cork, designed to support restful sleep. The frame contains no metal parts, such as screws or joints, which can increase electrostatic flows around a sleeping body. Cork is a natural and antistatic material, so the bed reduces the effect of magnetic and electrostatic flows on rest. The curved lines of the frame also limit the accumulation of such flows on the surface. Bisu measures 2200 mm by 2000 mm by 350 mm. Each bed is made by hand in Sardinia with Sardinian cork.
About Matteo Congiu
Matteo Congiu is a 33-year-old young designer and entrepreneur from Sardinia, graduated in Product Design from IED in Cagliari and a master's degree in Digital Fabrication and Innovation from IED in Milan. Sustainability and innovation are his greatest passions. The first innovative project is an interactive breathalyzer, developed by Matteo in partnership with Samsung Italy and presented at the Milan Furniture Fair in 2015; in 2017 he founded the OTQ Design brand, designing and presenting BISU: the world's first cork bed capable of improving sleep quality thanks to the antistatic properties of cork. 2017 brought the development of another innovative idea.
Award Record
Matteo Congiu is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
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/149066
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/149066
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!149066
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/342273
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Bisu Bed
- Function
- Bed
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Sienna, Peru, Silver, Gainsboro and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- OTQ Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Matteo Congiu
- Country
- Italy
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #149066
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- BISU is the first cork bed in the world which is capable to join functionality, ethics of well-being and design. The absence of metallic components, the naturalness of cork, its antistatic properties protect the sleep from the destabilising action of magnetic and electrostatic flows.
- Inspiration
- Named after the Sardinian word for “dream”, this magnificent frame designed by Matteo Congiu will provide an excellent sleeping experience thanks to its smooth and clean lines. In BISU there is the essence of the OTQ brand: the quality of sleep becomes the quality of life. Therefore, sleeping on cork means losing yourself in the history of your land, places, memories, language, but also the sensorial and tactile features of the matter. It means sleeping better to live longer.
- Research
- Sleeping well and have a good regenerative sleep are aspects to reckon, since these have such a huge impact on how we live the next day. Our body during a rest attracts magnetic waves and static electricity, disturbing our daily sleep and causing severe psycho-physical problems and emotional disorder in the long term. Metallic elements such as screws and joints, located in the most of the beds, increase the electrostatic flows, which passing through our body makes it a real magnet.
- Challenge
- All the process was very hard. The design of the structure wasn’t strong, so it has been necessary to work on new joints for the internal structure without modify the design. The curves of the bed are necessary because they prevent to the magnetic flows to attach the bed’s surface. The design is inspired to Japanese furniture and style. Minimal and essential.
- Realization and Technology
- 100% Hand made in Sardinia, with sardinian cork.
- Operation and Interaction
- Bisu is the only bed entirely made of cork in the world, that manages to combine functionality and design. Bisu bed is the only one in which there is no any metal parts and thanks to cork,100 % natural material and antistatic, all strains that affect the rest are solved.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in 2017 in Ortacesus, Sardinia; after months of research and testing, the product was ready to be presented for the first time at the IMM in Cologne in 2018, the same year it has presented in Dubai Downtown design. Subsequently it was exhibited in London Design Festival in 2019, Boutique Design New York in 2021 and at Maison & Objet in Paris in 2022.
- Specifications
- 2200 mm x 2000 mm x 350 mm
- Keywords
- Cork, bed, antistatic, natural, sustainable, antibacterial, minimal,
