Press Release
Tian Chen Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Toast Tool Free Assembly Sofa in Furniture Design
The international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Tian Chen for furniture design
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COMO, Italy, April 24, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ Toast Tool Free Assembly Sofa by Tian Chen, designed for Jason Furniture (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd., has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within 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 evaluated 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 Toast Tool Free Assembly Sofa
Toast is a modular sofa designed for tool-free assembly. The base consists of I-shaped and L-shaped solid wood blocks with grooves that are joined by plugging. The backrest and seat cushions are separate modules inserted into the grooves of the base. Stainless steel fittings connect the modules and allow various combinations. The solid wood base uses mortise and tenon joints for strength and is finished with environmentally friendly wood wax oil. Damaged parts can be replaced individually, which extends the service life of the sofa and reduces furniture waste.
About Tian Chen
KUKA HOME, a globally renowned home furnishing brand, is committed to providing healthy, comfortable, and environmentally friendly home furnishing solutions for families worldwide. KUKA HOME has always been committed to carrying out corporate social responsibility activities, actively participating in public welfare undertakings, making positive and sustainable contributions to society; investing in new technologies, developing new materials, extending the service life of products, saving energy and reducing emissions while researching products with recycling capabilities, creating sustainable business models, building a virtuous cycle ecological value chain; providing users with...
Award Record
This recognition makes Tian Chen 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/156811
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/156811
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!156811
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/351330
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Toast Tool Free Assembly Sofa
- Function
- Tool Free Assembly Sofa
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Silver, Dark Slate Blue, Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Gainsboro
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Jason Furniture (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Tian Chen
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #156811
Credits
- Team
- Hao Wu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Toast Sofa adopt a design strategy that extends the service life of the product by replacing the broken parts with smaller modular units.It is designed to allow the user to assemble and disassemble the sofa more easily.This also enables tool-free assembly and smaller package size, perfectly blends modularity, practicality and eco-friendly concept, and meets the diverse needs of modern people.
- Inspiration
- Sofas that are partially broken can no longer be used and are too costly to repair, so they have to be discarded. Furniture waste is large in size and extremely difficult and costly to handle with. A large amount of furniture waste causes serious resource waste and environmental pollution. Based on the concept of sustainable development, Toast Sofa aims to extend the service life of the product, reduce the cost of maintenance, and reduce the discarding and waste of furniture.
- Research
- We have researched and analyzed the current situation of used furniture market, online trading platform and furniture recycling business in Hangzhou, China. Through over a thousand online questionnaires, field visits to users and interviews with relevant furniture enterprises, it is found that repairing and recycling old furniture is costly and the transportation is difficult. In this regard, we proposed our design focusing on the recycling of used furniture.
- Challenge
- The biggest challenge encountered in the development of the project was the connection between the various modules and the tolerance design of the components. It was necessary to ensure the stability of the sofa as well as easy assembly and disassembly. Another challenge was to do with the company's sales strategy. which required a shift in thinking to sell not only the whole product but also the components, to facilitate the future maintenance of the product.
- Realization and Technology
- The solid wood base is spliced with mortise and tenon joint to ensure strength. The surface of it is treated with food-grade environmentally friendly wood wax oil to preserve the original texture of the wood, and to be in line with the concept of sustainable design. Metal fittings are CNC machined from stainless steel with polished surface while elastic knitted fabrics are available in a wide range of colors.
- Operation and Interaction
- The Toast Sofa is designed for tool-free assembly. The base of the sofa consists of "I" and "L" shaped wooden blocks with grooves, allowing the user to install them by plugging. The backrest and seat cushion are individual modules that are inserted into the grooves on the base. By simply inserting the metal fittings into the base, each module can be easily connected to each other to form various combinations.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in September 2023 in Hangzhou and finished in December 2023 in Hangzhou.
- Keywords
- Smaller modular, interchangeability, durability, practicality, economical, eco-friendly, interesting, tool-free assembly, Poka Yoke, comfortable
