Scenic Table by Marco Balsinha is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
BronzeFurniture· 2025
Scenic Table
Client: Tensai Furniture
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About Scenic Table
The Scenic Table stands out with its adaptable leg design, offering versatile attachment options for various environments, from commercial to domestic. Its plastic tabletop features multiple holes for different leg positions, concealing technical areas while ensuring durability, safety, and ergonomics. Inspired by the Calla lily, the leg can take on two distinct forms, maintaining consistent formal language and produced using the same mold for efficiency. The table includes interchangeable parts, balancing aesthetics and functionality, and combines design innovation with practical versatility
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Scenic Table is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Scenic Table is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Scenic Table splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
Scenic Table is a project developed in response to market needs and aligned with the technological capabilities of Tensai Furniture, particularly its expertise in plastic injection molding. The design was conceived to address specific demands identified by the company within its commercial and industrial strategy.
The project is inspired by versatility, serving as the foundation for a modular and adaptive approach to furniture design. What is presented here is the initial stage of a broader concept, with further developments and expansions planned for the future.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The main focus of this project was to introduce and promote a design-driven mindset within an engineering-oriented company. Scenic Table marks an important milestone — it represents the company’s first design award, signalling a shift towards recognising the strategic value of design within its industrial structure.
Beyond the object itself, the project aims to communicate a broader and more dynamic design vision that is closely integrated with the company’s industrial platform. It serves as both a tangible product and a vehicle for cultural transformation, helping to embed design thinking into the company’s processes and future developments.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
This project is intended to serve as proof that design holds real value and can be validated by external institutions and professional juries. Winning this award reinforces that belief and provides a platform to continue advocating for design within the company.
Looking ahead, the aim is to use Scenic Table as a testing ground for developing new products that embrace greater creative and technological risk. It will support experimentation both in design expression and in technical precision — paving the way for future collections that are more ambitious and strategically positioned.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The Scenic Table features adaptable leg, central to its originality. Its design offers versatile attachment options for spaces from HoReCa to homes. The plastic tabletop allows multiple leg positions, concealing technical areas. Compatible with various chairs, it balances safety, ergonomics, and durability. Its versatility, combined with a range of colors and configurations, adds aesthetic and functional value to any space, maintains the consistency of its formal language.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The table leg offers two distinct designs: a masculine, fully closed version with bag support for practicality, and a more open, feminine, delicate, and customizable version. Both are produced using the same mold with inserts, optimizing sustainability and industrial efficiency. This innovation maintains consistent texture, color, and size across both versions. Assembled table 738mm x (450/700/800mm or more), CLASSICA: 720mm x 175mm x 175mm, CURVE: 807mm x 175mm x 175mm.
- Tags
- Furniture, table, design, contract, plastic furniture, plastic injection, industrial design, modern design
- Production Technology
- Driven by research into company and market needs, the project was a collaboration between multiple departments, establishing guidelines for the designer with process inspired by Gui Bonsiepe. Initial sketches were modeled digitally. Plastic injection molding was chosen for precision and durability, using polypropylene with fiber. The process involved feedback loops, 3D prototypes, and tests to refine the design. The table was finalized with technical adjustments, ready for mass production.
- Design Challenge
- The Scenic Table project addresses technical, corporate, aesthetic, and visionary challenges. It uses interchangeable parts to enhance aesthetics and user experience, with precise connections managed through material shrinkage and injection molding. The project demonstrates design’s role alongside engineering and marketing, despite limited recognition. It balances designer vision and production, promoting bold, risk-taking concepts within corporate, consolidating design's role in the industry.
- Research
- Focusing on the leg as its original element, the Scenic Table design is inspired by the Calla lily. With interchangeable parts and plastic injection as its main technology, it incorporates innovation and boldness, key traits of design exploration. The project allows for multiple creative configurations, maintaining its envisioned language and ensuring formal and conceptual alignment. It serves as applied research in organizations and an educational example within European design's strategic role.
- Inspiration
- Expanding the product portfolio and enhance design quality, the Scenic Table project was created as a versatile solution concerning competitive references. Centered on a leg design inspired by the Calla lily, it blends elegance with mechanical efficiency. Using plastic injection molds, the table features interchangeable components, pushing technical boundaries. Developed with client feedback and rigorous testing, it balances corporate goals with innovation, ready for global market presentation.
- Project Duration
- Design development is fully underway in March 16, 2023. News publicly released at Spoga Gafa in Cologne 2024 (June 16, 2024) - Germany. The final demonstration unit will begin operation and be showcased at EquipHotel Paris 2024 – France (November 3, 2024). The first mass production is scheduled for December 2024.
- Operation Flow
- The Scenic Table excels in versatility and application, featuring a range of accessories that inspire creative professional solutions. It can be assembled from individual sets or supplied in bulk for large spaces. Customizable components allow for personalized solutions and easy part replacement, directly contributing to its tosustainability. The table’s design sets it apart from competitors, offering a unique, elegant way to transform spaces, meeting commercial sector needs effectively.
- Patents
- Copyright: Tensai, 2024
- Team Members
- Corporation/Producer: Tensai Indústria
Designer: Marco Balsinha
R&D director: Ângela Correia
Technical-Operational: Marco Balsinha, José Queirós
Commercial: Carla Costa
Marketing: Hugo Patrício
Logistics/Photo: Cristiano Ribeiro - Image Credits
- Image #1,#2, #4, #5: Cristiano Ribeiro
Image #3: Designer Marco Balsinha, 2024
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