Press Release
Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design Goes to Ekho Chair by Weiqiang Yao
The international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Weiqiang Yao for furniture design
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category for Ekho Chair by Weiqiang Yao, designed for Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd.. The result belongs to the 2023 - 2024 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.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
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 Ekho Chair
Ekho is a chair that forms part of a coordinated furniture series for the home. The chair is made of environmentally friendly PU leather and 28D cotton with high resilience. A retro stitch technique, widely used in Europe in the fifteenth century, is combined with a modern form to give the chair a cultural character. Shared moulds for the seat, the back and the metal tubes raise production efficiency. Flat packaging reduces transport costs. The chair has passed pressure, torque and falling box tests.
About Weiqiang Yao
China's emerging furniture designer-Ren Yu, he is an interesting furniture designer, loves life, and has always been passionate about new things. For Ren Yu, design is not an empty concept, let alone a popular element. It is an insight into rooted life. Expressing his own thinking through design; for design, in addition to form and function, he seeks the beauty of the text of the product, trying to create a dialogue with the user through the product.
Award Record
This recognition makes Weiqiang Yao a winner of 12 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2020 - 2021 and the 2023 - 2024 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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. It 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. Typical entries include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. The awarded furniture designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/furniture
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/154433
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/154433
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!154433
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/294475
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Ekho Chair
- Function
- Chair
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Silver, Black, White Smoke, Dark Slate Gray and Gainsboro
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Weiqiang Yao
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #154433
Credits
- Team
- Kunhong Li,Ziwei Wan,Weiqiang Yao,Puschmann Leon,Shengjie He,Zhe Gao,Xu Wang,Gongai Liu,Yexin Wang
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Furniture is not only a tool for people to live,It is also the carrier of people's cultural inheritance.Retro stitch design craftsmanship with modern design,Giving the product unique visual symbols and craftsmanship.Pressure torque and falling box test.This design converts the visualization of the corporate logo into part of the product shape,and then achieves publicity and enhance the brand image.
- Inspiration
- Retro stitch design originated in the 15th century and was widely used in europe at that time. In the series of products, the spirit of craftsmanship is inherited through the combination of traditional craftsmanship. The integration of traditional craftsmanship and modern design also gives products unique art and cultural atmosphere.
- Research
- In the contemporary fast-paced living environment,fast-consuming products flood people's lives.Research has proved that people desire products with cultural flavor and raftsmanship to satisfy their aesthetic needs and demonstrate their sense of quality of life.
- Challenge
- The Ekho series has formulated a series of standardization technology, which greatly improves production efficiency. The dining chair module is fully shared, and the back is also shared a mold production. Bar stool soft bag molds and metal tube mold molds have been shared. The entire series uses demolished flat packaging packaging to greatly reduce transportation costs. The products have passed pressure, torque, and box tests. Of course, everything we do is to give consumers a high -quality and cost -effective furniture product.
- Realization and Technology
- Made of environmentally friendly Pu leather.Combined with Retro stitch design technology,giving the product a unique cultural atmosphere.Made of 28D cotton with high resilience and passed various chemical tests.
- Operation and Interaction
- This series of products can cover a variety of application scenarios and help users realize a unified home style.Among them,the bar table has added storage function in addition to the basic use function,the bar chair has basic model and liftable swivel model,and the bedside stool has basic model and storable model.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Shenzhen in January 2023 and completed in Shenzhen in September 2023
- Specifications
- Width1200 xDepth400 xHeight450 mm
- Keywords
- Craftsmanship,Heritage,Modularity,Versatility,Retro stitch design
