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HD Diamond Series Shower Room by Wei Xu and Tiantian Xu Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Bathroom Furniture and Sanitary Ware Design
Wei Xu and Tiantian Xu acknowledged for bathroom furniture and sanitary ware design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 24, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ HD Diamond Series Shower Room by Wei Xu and Tiantian Xu, designed for Guangdong 1858 Home Co., has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Bathroom Furniture and Sanitary Ware Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached 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.
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 HD Diamond Series Shower Room
HD Diamond Series is a range of shower enclosures designed for minimalist bathrooms. The series uses a 6mm H-shaped ultra-narrow frame, based on a laminated glass principle in which two 5mm glass layers are offset. The right-angle frame is only 10mm wide at the front, matching the thickness of the glass. The door frame is sealed with metal-wrapped silicone tape for high airtightness and colour harmony with the metal. A damping buffer supports quiet closing, and a metal return channel at the base guides water back into the shower area.
About Wei Xu and Tiantian Xu
ROSERY was founded in the 1990s. It is a custom-made household enterprise with shower door, partition door, shower cabinet and polymer bathroom as its core. It has three major brands of 1858 High-custom Home, ROSERY and MOKYU. It has built a 240,000㎡whole industrial chain intelligent manufacturing base and has been certified as a national high-tech enterprise. The retail distribution network covers nearly 600 cities across the country, and the products are exported to more than 30 countries and regions such as Europe and the United States.
Award Record
This recognition makes Wei Xu and Tiantian Xu a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted in the 2023 - 2024 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Bathroom Furniture and Sanitary Ware Design Award
The A' Sanitary Ware Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good bathroom product designs by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to sanitary ware designers, bathroom furniture designers, industrial design studios and ceramic artists from all countries. Typical entries include toilets, sinks, bathtubs, showers, bidets and faucets. The awarded sanitary ware designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/sanitary-ware
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/155003
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/155003
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!155003
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/347483
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- HD Diamond Series Shower Room
- Function
- Shower Room
- Category
- Bathroom Furniture and Sanitary Ware Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Architecture
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Gray, Dark Gray, Silver and Light Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Guangdong 1858 Home Co.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Wei Xu and Tiantian Xu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #155003
Credits
- Team
- Wei Xu, Tiantian Xu
- Image Credits
- Guangdong 1858 Home Co.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The HD Diamond series innovates with a 6mm "H" shaped extremely narrow frame, utilizing the laminated glass process stacking principle. The 5 plus 5 glass displaced interlayer makes the right-angle frame have a narrowest front width of 10mm, achieving the same thickness as the glass. The door frame adopts waterproof tape made of metal wrapped silicone material, which has better airtightness and achieves color compatibility with the metal, making it more harmonious and unified.
- Inspiration
- The design inspiration comes from the diamond cutting surface, utilizing the fusion of lines and geometric block surfaces to showcase the rich spatial visual hierarchy between light and shadow, with a golden ratio of precise cutting beauty. The 6mm "H-shaped" extremely narrow frame reshapes the visual senses with the ultimate line aesthetic, creating a refined and minimalist spatial atmosphere, giving the space more possibilities.
- Research
- With the continuous extension of minimalist style in home space, minimalist bathrooms can help people relieve their burden and enjoy the purity and comfort of simple life with peace of mind. The series utilizes the fusion of lines and geometric block surfaces to innovate 6mm "H-shaped" extremely narrow frames and metal door frames, pairing with transparent glass and diamond textures, making the series as exquisite and elegant as diamond cut surfaces, casting a high-quality spatial charm.
- Challenge
- It considers on how to create the atmosphere of an elegant and luxurious space while meeting the practical functions. By combining 6mm "H" shaped extremely narrow frames and metal door frames with transparent glass, traditional cumbersome decorations and layouts are extremely simplified. Meanwhile, the innovative metal return sink at the bottom of the door achieves in collecting water immediately upon opening, resulting in a more comprehensive separation of dry and wet conditions.
- Realization and Technology
- The series adopts a non magnetic capsule closure structure, achieving a 6mm "H-shaped" extremely narrow frame; The laminated glass process stacking principle and the 5 plus 5 glass displaced interlayer make the right angle frame have a narrowest front width of 10mm, achieving the extremely narrow frame with the same thickness as the glass. The door frame adopts waterproof tape made of metal wrapped silicone material, achieving high airtightness and durability.
- Operation and Interaction
- The series is equipped with a damping buffer, achieving a 90-degree positioning when opening the door, an automatic return when closing the door at 10 degrees, a buffered closure at 45 degrees, and ultra quiet experience. And it effectively reducing safety issues such as glass collisions and hand gripping. The innovative metal return sink installed at the bottom guides the accumulated water on the glass back to the shower area when opening the door, achieving all-round wet and dry separation.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project finished in July 2023 in Guangzhou.
- Specifications
- The series has evolved styles for various application scenarios, which can be flexibly customized according to different space needs and home styles to meet the personalized needs of users.
- Keywords
- Minimalist design, ultra-narrow bezel design, linear aesthetics, infinite field of view, comfortable and safe, highly customized
