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Trinity Collection Home Fragrance by Xiutao Fu Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Homeware Design
Xiutao Fu honored for homeware 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 Trinity Collection Home Fragrance by Xiutao Fu, designed for Mattenai, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Homeware Design category. The recognition forms part of 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
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 Trinity Collection Home Fragrance
The Trinity Collection is inspired by ice, which represents the moment in eternity and the eternal moment. The trinity of ice, water, and air could picture the dynamic change of moment, memory, and emotion. It intends to bring users back to true nature, by reproducing natural beauty with auditory, visual, olfactory, and tactile arts. With essence extracted from natural plants, it integrates natural aesthetics into the fragrance, only to preserve a uniqueness in the ever-changing world, and to let the extraordinary taste and style become a classic heirloom.
About Xiutao Fu
Xiutao Fu, is a multi-product designer within accessory, jewellery and product. Xiutao graduated from the London College of Fashion with a Master of Fashion Artefact and now base China. Prior to taking the Master’s course in London, she was trained in product production at College of Design and Innovation (Tongji University) of Industrial Design & Jewellery Design in Shanghai. Xiutao expanded her design experiences by designing various of products and cooperating with manufacturers to produce. Therefore, she possesses a board knowledge of technique (traditional handcraft/ industrial manufacture/ 3D printing)as well as material (leather/ metal/ plastic/ paper/ silicone/ wood/ gemstones).
Award Record
Xiutao Fu is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2019 - 2020 to 2022 - 2023 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Decorative Items and Homeware Design Award
The A' Homeware Design Award is an international homeware design competition recognizing good homeware designs by leading brands and designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to homeware designers, product designers, industrial design studios and ceramic artists from all countries. Entries typically include tableware, lighting fixtures, cookware, decorative accessories, bathroom accessories and furniture. Awarded homeware designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/homeware
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/151429
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/151429
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!151429
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/150633
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.mattenai.com/home
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Trinity Collection Home Fragrance
- Function
- Home Fragrance
- Category
- Homeware Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Gainsboro, White, Light Gray, Silver and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Mattenai
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Xiutao Fu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #151429
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer Rui Liu, Creator Xiutao Fu, Trinity collection, 2021; Illustrator Xiutao Fu, Trinity collection, 2021; Photographer Rui Liu, Creator Xiutao Fu, Trinity collection, 2021 Video: Photographer Rui Liu, Creator Xiutao Fu, Trinity collection, 2021
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- MATTENAI Fragrance intends to bring users back to the true nature, by reproducing the natural beauty with auditory, visual, olfactory and tactile arts. With essence extracted from natural plants, it integrates natural aesthetics into the fragrance, only to preserve a uniqueness in the ever-changing world, and to let the extraordinary taste and style become a classic heirloom.
- Inspiration
- The Trinity Collection inspired by ice, which represents the moment in eternity and the eternal moment. Moment and eternity are the constant topic of human beings. Life is too short, people always want to make the moment into eternity. In fact, every wonderful moment constitutes the eternity. Although touching moments are too short to stay, they could continually touch us in other way. Similarly, the trinity of ice, water and air could pictured the dynamic change of moment, memory and emotion.
- Research
- After a complex market research about fragrance, I chose four kinds of note to develop and wrote down the brief of fragrance design and started to collaborate with perfumer. Trying to illustrate some different kinds of wonderful moment and by fragrance. Meanwhile, sketched the bottle shape which inspired by a melting ice cube.
- Challenge
- First of all, it is a big challenge to illustrate memorable scene by fragrance and resonate with lots people. It need both imaginary and intuition. During the realization, it is very difficult to make a smooth combination of the outside glass cover and the inside glass container. Because of manual welding or soldering, it is also difficult to make sure the perpendicularity of the inside glass container. There are many details and technical problems need to be solved such as bubbles in glass and parting line of the inner glass bottle.
- Realization and Technology
- The bottle is handcraft double-layer glass. Four type of fragrance are original design.
- Operation and Interaction
- The shape of bottle is inspired by a melting ice cube, which is a changing moment of the trinity in ice, water and water vapour. There are four type of fragrance: Muguet Shadow (Floral Note), Mandarin Sunshine (Citrus Aromatic), Bamboo Breeze (Fougere Aromatic) and Smoky Vetiver (Woody Note). These four type of fragrance illustrate four beautiful moment.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in April 2020 in Shanghai and finished in October 2021 in Shanghai
- Specifications
- Width 110mm x Depth 110mm x Height 210mm
- Keywords
- fragrance, home diffuser, handcraft glass, home decoration, glass art
