Hourglass Multifunctional Shelf by Yu Ren is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Silver A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
SilverFurniture· 2021
Hourglass Multifunctional Shelf
by Yu Ren
Client: Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd.
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About Hourglass Multifunctional Shelf
Hourglass is a multifunctional shelf that combines a coat rack, a storage shelf and a lamp in one piece of furniture. The frame is made of three colored stainless steel elements, and two boards of different sizes serve as the laminates. The boards and the metal frame are joined with angle iron screws. A screw at the top of the frame works as a coat hook. The lamp can be detached and carried to other places, and its low temperature light source does not heat up. Hourglass measures 500 mm in width, 500 mm in depth and 1700 mm in height.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Hourglass Multifunctional Shelf is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Hourglass Multifunctional Shelf is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Hourglass Multifunctional Shelf is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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- Unique Properties
- Hourglass is a multi-functional furniture, the combination of multiple basic functions to achieve "one plus one more than two" design concept. Hourglass not only to meet the basic needs, but also to give people a sense of experience, happiness products. Hourglass suitable for multi-scene use, its lamp source is a low-temperature light source, luminous no heat.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 500mm depth 500mm height 1700mm
- Tags
- shelf, floor lamp, coat rack, furniture, multifunction, lighting
- Production Technology
- Hourglass shelf consists of three colored stainless steel, two environmental protection plates of different sizes as the laminate. Laminate and metal stainless steel are connected with angle iron screws. The screw at the top of the rack can be used as a coat hook. The user can take off the lamp and use it in different scenarios.
- Design Challenge
- The biggest challenge in the process of realization and research is to realize "one plus one more than two ", which combines the two basic functions properly, not only to meet the basic needs, but also to further provide users with fun. Happiness is the biggest challenge in research.
- Research
- With modern people's work, overtime is getting busier and busier, every night tired back home, we mechanically touch the switch, throw away bags, clothing. This is not a positive way of life. So we have investigated more than two hundred people and studied their living habits. We hope to solve the dissatisfaction in daily life, find people's daily life needs, and improve people's happiness. Based on these, we combine the opinions provided by the participants and hope to combine people's needs and develop a product to simplify people's doing tedious and boring things, as well as interactive and fun products.
- Inspiration
- Design inspiration comes from the art of time. The hourglass is the symbol of time, and the charm of time affects the tide ups and downs, years change. When the morning sun was born, the hourglass was a "coat rack "; at noon, it was a" shelf "; when night fell, it became a "lamp ". The change of different roles reminds people to follow the direction of time, perceive the years and harvest exquisite life.
- Project Duration
- The project started in Shenzhen in July 2020 and finished in Shenzhen in January 2021.
- Operation Flow
- You can put bags, clothes and other items on the shelf, then bring the hourglass lamp to the sofa, read a book leisurely, or use it in your courtyard to enjoy a moment of silence at night.
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