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Liang Chi Guo Is Honored with the A' Design Award for The Corner Collection 3 Seater Bench in Furniture Design
Liang Chi Guo honored for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 21, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that The Corner Collection 3 Seater Bench by Liang Chi Guo, designed for Tomood Studio, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category. The recognition forms part of 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 A' Design Award Means
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
About The Corner Collection 3 Seater Bench
The design concept is taken from the early Taiwan local wood and rattan stools, and is integrated into the modern home style through the reinterpretation of different material design. In this corner collection, you can feel the subtleness of the wood, the meshed surface design with simplicity. The 3 seater bench is entirely handcrafted with natural lumber. Wooden but lightweight, forging a sophisticated piece of artistic bench with bright wooden color, and four rounded corners to deliver elegance.
About Liang Chi Guo
A creative designer developed from Taiwan, bringing wonders of creativity into life. And he believes that any pieces of furniture of high quality can also be affordable, durable and sleek. He is dedicated to establishing hand-made furniture of excellent quality, only with the finest natural lumber, conveying warmth through the selected trees locally cultivated in the mountains of Taiwan, with particular growth rings only visible on Taiwanese trees. All furniture designed by Liang-Chi Guo for TOMOOD emphasizes serenity, simplicity and a rustic charm, manufactured only in Taiwan.
Award Record
This recognition makes Liang Chi Guo 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/159331
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/159331
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!159331
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/310557
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://linktr.ee/tomood
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- The Corner Collection 3 Seater Bench
- Function
- 3 Seater Bench
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Silver, Gainsboro, Dark Gray, Light Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Tomood Studio
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Liang Chi Guo
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #159331
Credits
- Image Credits
- [; Photographer Liang-Chi Guo , Corner Bench, 2022] [; Photographer Liang-Chi Guo , Corner Bench, 2022]
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- It features four rounded legs, not only can it convey the fineness and the uniqueness of wood pattern, but also avoid collision against sharp edges on the general bench. And its light and airy design creates an even, harmonious appearance, forging a sophisticated piece of artistic stool with bright wooden colour, and four rounded corners to deliver elegance.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by traditional Taiwaness stool, with traditional elements of Taiwan heritage superimposed on the construction and appearance, such as an unparalleled and unprecedented wood joinery method without any metallic latches between any joints, as well as the distinctive mesh seat surface. The combination of lightweightness, simplicity of the construction and the precise craftsmanship delivers a heartwarming, sophisticated and contemporary piece of furniture.
- Research
- Taiwan has a forest coverage rate of 60%, but a wood self-sufficiency rate of only about 1%. In addition, most of the existing domestic wood is softwood from small-diameter trees and thinnings from forestry. The main core of Corner Bench is to explore how to increase the use of softwood through design, to achieve the goal of using both soft and hard woods, and to find the most suitable ratio to highlight the characteristics of domestic wood.
- Challenge
- The traditional wood joinery and rattan pressing technique is like any other traditional technique in every country, experts with this type of skill have been dramatically decreasing over the past decades. It is hoped that with the rise in popularity of the Corner Bench, this traditional but useful and cost-effective technique can be reflected from the modern furniture engineered with both conventional and cutting-edge practices.
- Realization and Technology
- A mortise and tenon joinery was employed in overall structure for perfect interlocks without any metallic latches. With such structural design, the furniture further empowers its durability, even with varied types of wood properties.The seat surface is crafted with a ventilating piece of rattan, purely handcrafted with traditional Taiwanese rattan pressing techniques, constructing a resilient structural integrity to better meet the load requirements. Even with such high durability, features its lightweight for convenient transportation and delivery.
- Operation and Interaction
- As the components are already modularised, the entire bench can be in mass production with only 3-4 modular parts. Unlike furniture with synthetic materials, natural wood and rattan are 100% biodegradable, demonstrating its high sustainability and environmental friendliness.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Taiwan in March 2022. The first deliverable was completed in March 2022 and exhibited at the Taiwan 台灣工坊家具_木質生活展.
- Specifications
- Width 1245 mm x Depth 350 mm x Height 420 mm
- Keywords
- Bench, furniture, wood rattan bench, tomood, Corner Bench
