Tiles Writing Desk by Wei Jingye and Zhang Wenyang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
IronFurniture· 2023
Tiles Writing Desk
by Wei Jingye and Zhang Wenyang
Client: Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts
A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About Tiles Writing Desk
Tiles is a writing desk and chair set made mainly of metal copper. The forms and patterns follow Chinese furniture traditions, while the cool brown copper adds a modern character to the simple and solid shapes. The decorative pattern is inspired by overlapping roof tiles. The chair form refers to the Chinese Ming style armchair. A brown leather cushion makes the seat more comfortable. The copper parts are cut, carved, bent, welded and polished, and the plate edges are wrapped in metal tube that forms the main connecting structure. Tiles suits studies and living rooms.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Tiles Writing Desk is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Tiles Writing Desk is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Tiles Writing Desk is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Behind the Design
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- Unique Properties
- "Tiles" furniture is a Chinese style table and chair designed with metal copper material. The overall design elements apply Chinese pattern and shape, and the cold brown copper is used as the main material, which adds a smart modern sense to the strong and simple Chinese semantics. The surface is matched with brown leather cushion, which is more convenient for the use of products. The inspiration of furniture pattern decoration is mainly from the roof tiles of childhood, and Chinese elements are added to simplify the decoration. The overall shape is solemn and simple yet clever and modern, which is suitable for a variety of leisure places such as study and living room.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 1600mm x 750mm x 780mm, 820mm x 660mm x 900mm, the product production and processing technology is composed of cutting, carving and washing, bending, welding, polishing, etc., the processing mode is relatively simple, no special technical requirements, high freedom of modeling.
- Tags
- Tiles, New Chinese style, Multifunctional, Leisure
- Production Technology
- Mainly made of metal copper materials, after cutting, carving, bending, welding, polishing and other processes. The edge part of the plate is wrapped in metal tube, which is the main connecting structure. The production process is simple and the production efficiency is high.
- Design Challenge
- The combination of ancient Chinese semantics and modern sense of metal copper material, so that history and modern sense of collision, and on the basis of structural innovation to ensure the comfort and functionality of products.
- Research
- This design takes Chinese furniture as the reference and tiles as the inspiration source. The overall design elements apply Chinese patterns and shapes, and the cold brown copper as the main material adds a smart modern sense to the strong and simple Chinese semantics. The surface is matched with brown leather cushion, which makes it more convenient to use products.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration of furniture pattern decoration is mainly from the roof tiles of childhood, which are overlapping and shining. As the core semantics of the design, it is integrated into the design, and the whole is simplified and sorted out. The shape of the chair comes from the Chinese Ming style arm-chair, with modern metal materials, simple and smart.
- Project Duration
- It will start in Shenyang in January 2023 and will be completed in Shenyang in February 2023.
- Operation Flow
- It is suitable for leisure and entertainment, sitting down or kneeling, whether reading or drinking tea or resting and playing is the right choice. The product material is mainly brown metal copper, the color is stable and atmospheric, it is easier to integrate into the space, and add color to the space design. Collocation leather cushion makes the furniture use more comfortable and convenient.
- Team Members
- Wei Jingye
Zhang Wenyang
Wang Luqing
Zheng Xiaolei
Zhou Haoyuan
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