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Bronze A' Design Award in Kitchen Furniture, Equipment and Fixtures Design Goes to Oriental Lanting Cabinet Series by Yuanhua He and Gengchen Li
Yuanhua He and Gengchen Li recognized for kitchen furniture, equipment and fixtures design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Oriental Lanting Cabinet Series by Yuanhua He and Gengchen Li, designed for Guangzhou Holike Creative Home Co.,Ltd, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Kitchen Furniture, Equipment and Fixtures Design category. The award was conferred within the 2024 - 2025 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 scored 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.
About Oriental Lanting Cabinet Series
Oriental Lanting is a kitchen cabinet series designed to support interaction among family members. The layout links the living room, the light dinner preparation zone, the Chinese kitchen and the balcony washing area. A dual-faced cabinet has a through-type opening at its center that acts as a food pass-through and an interaction window, so spaces are both divided and connected. Walk-in corridor doors with concealed hinges conceal the kitchen and balcony. New surface materials and hot pressing create soft curved edges and a solid wood appearance.
About Yuanhua He and Gengchen Li
From Guangzhou Holike Creative Home Co., Ltd., specializes in cabinet design,whole-house customization. It adheres to the brand positioning of “Master of Customized Home Furnishing”, takes “Pursuing Original and Trendy Lifestyle together with Holike” as the brand proposition, advocates the original lifestyle philosophy of “Seeking for a Healthy, Comfortable, Simple and Natural Life”, takes “Master Design & Master Quality & Master Service” as the brand core and driving force, and practices the development strategy of “New Original plus Great Home Furnishing” with a comprehensive layout of a range of multi-category whole-house sets, including whole-house customization, cabinets, wooden doors...
Award Record
This recognition makes Yuanhua He and Gengchen Li a winner of 6 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2022 - 2023 to 2024 - 2025 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Kitchen Furniture, Equipment and Fixtures Design Award
The A' Kitchen Furniture Design Award is an international furniture design competition recognizing good kitchen furniture best designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to kitchen furniture designers, industrial designers, kitchen equipment manufacturers and kitchen fixture specialists from all countries. Entries typically include cabinets, countertops, islands, pantries, tables and chairs. Awarded kitchen furniture designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/kitchen-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/167394
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/167394
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!167394
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/338682
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Oriental Lanting Cabinet Series
- Function
- Cabinet Series
- Category
- Kitchen Furniture, Equipment and Fixtures Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Electronics & Appliances
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dark Gray, Black, Dark Olive Green and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Guangzhou Holike Creative Home Co.,Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yuanhua He and Gengchen Li
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #167394
Credits
- Team
- Yuanhua He
- Image Credits
- Guangzhou Holike Creative Home Co.,Ltd
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This series innovatively introduces the emotional interaction-oriented concept. On the basis of Chinese aesthetics, this series adopts an L-D-K-W linkage space layout with themed functional kitchen and balcony modules, connecting different spaces to meet family members' interaction needs and providing a natural and comfortable life experience.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by traditional Chinese Suzhou Gardens, this series features innovative artistic scenes, securing harmony between humans and nature. The original living-kitchen dual-faced themed cabinet and walk-in corridor door with low-cost concealed hinges link four themed spaces: L (Zen Tea-themed living room), D (Light-dinner prep zone), K (Chinese kitchen cooking space), and W (Hidden walk-in balcony washhouse), creating a healthy kitchen to facilitate emotional interaction among family members.
- Research
- This series aims to build healthy kitchen spaces through innovation in three aspects: interactive scenario space, humanized functional design, and scientific storage design. It skillfully integrates Chinese-style aesthetic design, creating a series of traditional Chinese-style living spaces and related products while delivering a more scientific and healthy lifestyle.
- Challenge
- Inspired by traditional Chinese Suzhou Gardens with framed views, this series applies the living-kitchen dual-faced themed functional cabinet and walk-in corridor doors with concealed hinges to link themed spaces and build hidden walk-in professional kitchen and balcony spaces. It addresses the pain point of multiple space linkage and creates an integrated, interactive, linked, and healthy Oriental aesthetic kitchen.
- Realization and Technology
- SPL new materials and synchronized steel plate technology are utilized to give a visual and tactile experience akin to solid wood, creating a natural, calm, and elegant atmosphere. The high-frequency hot pressing technology is applied to form curved surfaces with soft arcs, which ensure a smooth space transition to enhance safety and beauty. Meanwhile, this series offers replicable standard modular components.
- Operation and Interaction
- The living-kitchen dual-faced cabinet combines multiple functions: food pass-through window, light-dinner prep zone, washing zone, item storage zone, etc. The balcony themed cabinet is divided into different zones according to functions and workflow, providing a convenient laundry experience. The Chinese kitchen space features golden circulation paths for efficient cooking and storage. The living room, Zen Tea-themed, offers a platform for physical and mental relief and friend meetings.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project finished in December 2024 in Guangzhou.
- Specifications
- The pioneering living-kitchen dual-faced cabinet has a through-type structure at the center that acts as an interaction window. This design enables both space partitioning and linkage, a breakthrough compared to regular open-plan living-kitchen layouts. The walk-in corridor door with concealed hinges helps create a hidden walk-in professional kitchen and balcony spaces, linking the living-kitchen dual-faced cabinet. This creates interconnected L-D-K-W spaces, facilitating emotional interaction.
- Keywords
- Healthy kitchen concept, LDKW themed space linkage, Social Zen-tea culture, Chinese-style aesthetic layout, Professional kitchen-balcony themed modules
