Press Release
Silver A' Design Award in Building Materials and Construction Components Design Goes to Kazbegi Slab by Klax
Klax recognized for building materials and construction components design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 15, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ Kazbegi Slab by Klax has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Building Materials and Construction Components 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
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 Kazbegi Slab
Kazbegi is a large format porcelain slab designed for walls and floors. The slab measures 3200 millimetres in length and 1600 millimetres in width. The surface reproduces the natural texture of stone, with marble like veining and soft natural colour. The design is inspired by the form of Mount Kazbek and brings the character of mountains and stone into interior spaces. Production uses digital mould technology, macro capture of stone patterns, three dimensional scanning and multi layer printing. Kazbegi suits living rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms and study rooms.
About Klax
KLAX is an international high-end original porcelain slab brand. Inherit the original modern design aesthetics of Italy since 1946, and create ultimate and textured porcelain slab products. With the brand slogan of "For Aesthetics, For Details", it perfectly integrates the beauty of Italian classics handed down for hundreds of years with modern design, bringing consumers both the best quality and international design aesthetics.
Award Record
This recognition makes Klax a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Building Materials and Construction Components Design Award
The A' Building Components Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good building components by best brands and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to building material manufacturers, building material brands, construction product designers and industrial designers from all countries. Typical entries include bricks, beams, windows, doors, insulation materials and roofing materials. The awarded building components designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/building-components
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/159235
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/159235
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!159235
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/353680
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Kazbegi Slab
- Function
- Slab
- Category
- Building Materials and Construction Components Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Klax
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #159235
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Following the Italian design wisdom of nearly 80 years, KLAX together with Tecnografica, the top Italian design agency, integrates the elegance, luxury and extreme tension of Italian design, deconstructs and reorganizes the porcelain slab materials, refines and sublimates the artistic conception of Italian aesthetics, injects every detail of the products, and constructs an Italian minimalist aesthetic scene.
- Inspiration
- Klax draws inspiration from Mount Kasbeck's agile figure, incorporates the charm of mountains and stone, and creates a natural sense of living environment. This product adopts Klax's patent of the Real Stone texture approach, the stone texture of the surface looks natural.
- Research
- With its differentiated R&D design and excellent physical performance, KLAX comprehensively creates the world's top fashion products, creating a home life experience of "integration of natural texture and humanistic temperature". At the same time, it also provides whole porcelain slab customized solutions.
- Challenge
- It incorporates Spanish-imported Torrecid ink to reproduce the pure color of the stone, the industry's advanced 18-channel 3D inkjet machine precisely controls the ink flow, making the color presentation of the products richer and more accurate.
- Realization and Technology
- Innovative digital mold 3.0 technology uses a camera alignment device with the same pixel as world-renowned paintings for scanning and replicating, macro-capturing stone patterns, 3D scanning, multi-layer stacking, and replicating nature's masterpieces.
- Operation and Interaction
- Through the solution output of KLAX headquarters, customized service by service suppliers, and the one-stop delivery services including orders, logistics, auxiliary materials, and construction, to provide consumers with comprehensive solutions for porcelain slab home decoration and porcelain slab customized home products.
- Project Duration and Location
- The product was designed and sold on the market in 2023.
- Specifications
- The large sized porcelain slab is 3200 millimeters long and 1600 millimeters wide. With each inch of smooth marble texture showcasing its natural color, the product can be used for walls and floors in living rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms, study rooms, indoor gardens, and other spaces, spreading advanced lifestyle and aesthetics to customers, awakening their imagination towards an ideal home.
- Keywords
- Slab, Product, Material, Floor, Wall, Furnishing
