Press Release
Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design Goes to Blooming Leisure Chair by Jingye Wei
The international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Jingye Wei for furniture design
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COMO, Italy, April 24, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category for Blooming Leisure Chair by Jingye Wei, designed for Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts. The recognition forms part of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided 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.
More About Blooming Leisure Chair
Blooming is a leisure chair inspired by flowers in full bloom. The seat and the back take the shape of petals and follow organic, ergonomic lines that support the spine. The armrests open and turn outward, in the manner of a flower. A triangular support under the seat is based on the pedicel and gives stability and load bearing capacity. The chair is made of white copper and formed as a single piece by three-dimensional printing, which reveals the metallic luster of the material. The size is 920 by 680 by 890 millimeters.
Award Record
This recognition makes Jingye Wei a winner of 33 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2016 - 2017 to 2023 - 2024 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. 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/158966
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/158966
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!158966
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/180555
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Blooming Leisure Chair
- Function
- Leisure Chair
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Dim Gray, Gray, White Smoke and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Jingye Wei
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #158966
Credits
- Team
- Wei Jingye, Zhou Haoyuan, Zheng Xiaolei and Song Kexin
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This leisure chair is based on the natural state of flowers in full bloom. Through observing and understanding the flowers in the natural world, it abstracts the shape of petals， stretching and blooming, and extracts the natural flowing lines of flowers in full bloom, the connection form between pedicel and petal is used for reference in structure, and the material, shape and structure are skillfully designed and carefully treated.
- Inspiration
- The chair is inspired by the blooming flowers. The seat and back take the shape of the petals. The shape is organic and ergonomic. The armrest is in the shape of a flower opening and turning outward, while showing the strength and beauty of life, it also satisfies the functionality. The bottom of the seat adopts a triangular supporting structure, which draws on the pedicel and is designed to cleverly connect the seat, ensure seat stability and load-bearing capacity.
- Research
- The chair is designed with flowers as inspiration, extracting the natural flow and vitality curve of flowers when they are in full bloom, and combining the beautiful form of flowers with ergonomics to form the seat.
- Challenge
- To realize the organic integration of seat surface, backrest and chair legs, find the most beautiful surface Angle and achieve the coordinated proportion of each part. Achieve the organic unity of furniture shape and structure.
- Realization and Technology
- The whole is made of white copper as raw material and processed by 3D printing technology. The overall strength is good, showing the metallic luster, fully demonstrating the beauty of the material itself, and adding a point to the overall shape.
- Operation and Interaction
- The structure of the seat and back helps to support the spine and help people use the seat correctly. Used for rest, reading, decoration and other functions.
- Project Duration and Location
- The design had started in Shenyang in January 2023, completed in Shenyang in June 2023, and displayed in the museum of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang in June in 2023.
- Specifications
- 920 mm x 680 mm x 890 mm, the whole furniture has 3D printing integrated forming, the processing process is simple, easy to operate. Additive manufacturing, saving materials is not easy to waste. High freedom of modeling.
- Keywords
- Petal, Organic form, Bionic modeling, 3D printing
