Avant Bathroom Furniture by Manolo Duran Diseno is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Bronze A' Design Award in Bathroom Furniture and Sanitary Ware Design Competition Category.
BronzeSanitary Ware· 2025
Avant Bathroom Furniture
Client: Grupo Bono
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Sanitary Ware Category
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About Avant Bathroom Furniture
Avant, a collection of suspended furniture with a design contemporary and timeless beauty, which exalts the simplicity of the rectangular shape. A robust and minimalist perimeter frame in relief, encloses the profile of the suspended furniture. The fronts are assembled, thanks to the exclusive brushed aluminum profile, a distinctive feature of the collection, which allows different thicknesses of top and/or glass to be joined, creating an asymmetrical and balanced relationship. Sight and touch coexist in a dialectical relationship, in a multisensory composition through shapes and materials.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Avant Bathroom Furniture 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. Avant Bathroom Furniture 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. Avant Bathroom Furniture splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
An embossed frame draws and encloses the profile of the suspended furniture. It runs on columns, on open elements, on wall units creating a pleasant continuum.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
We wanted to find an untapped functionality in the design of doors and drawers of home furniture, which consists of the play of volumes and the combinability of materials.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
To increase the turnover of my client Grupo Bono, for its AKUA bathroom division.
Grand Interview
Your innovative integration of a perimeter frame in Avant Bathroom Furniture creates a striking visual balance - could you elaborate on how this design element emerged from your creative process and what it represents in terms of contemporary bathroom aesthetics?
The idea of a relief frame that draws and encloses the profile of the furniture arises as a primary objective of combining in a single element the aesthetics and the unexploited function in the design of doors and drawers of home furniture, which consists of the play of volumes and combinability of materials.It also runs on columns, on open elements, on wall units creating a pleasant continuum.
The Avant Bathroom Furniture collection masterfully combines lacquered surfaces with natural textures - what inspired your decision to juxtapose these contrasting materials, and how does this duality enhance the user experience?
This is a feature that is representative of many of my furniture designs for the habitat. I have always understood that furniture is looked at and touched. All the senses are important to create well-being.
Given the challenge of balancing high visual impact with cost-effective manufacturing for Avant Bathroom Furniture, how did you achieve this delicate equilibrium while maintaining the collection's distinctive design elements?
The biggest challenge was, like almost all industrial projects, the optimization of processes and costs, without sacrificing aesthetic features. Undoubtedly, working from the beginning of the project with industrial partners specialized in aluminum injection systems, has made it possible to control and optimize technology, material and manufacturing costs, in each of the phases, reaching very optimal results.
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The Avant collection proposes a bathroom furniture with an integrated washbasin, doors with an exclusive profile that combine wood, stone and glass, together with the rest of the container elements and a unique backlit mirror, forming a personal bathroom furnishing, expressed through the minimalism of the shapes. Avant is an exercise in abstraction and dynamism. The pieces are assembled at different depths, creating an asymmetrical and balanced relationship with thin horizontal lines of their fr
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width x Depth x Height
Avant furniture 60/80/100/120 x 48 x 57 cm
Avant Column 100/ x 27 x 120 cm
Avant Mirror 60/80/100/120 x 3 x 70 cm - Tags
- Design, creativity, bathoom, furniture, vanity, mirror, avant, collection
- Production Technology
- This design is developed with ergonomic standards and 3D creation processes. Always after an exhaustive creative process of sketches and models, working on the colors and textures with collaborating suppliers of our studio. Market analysis and previous products showed us the way to follow in this design that is incorporated into an extensive program of washbasins and container elements for the firm Akua belonging to Grupo Bono. The design is developed with sustainable materials such as chipboard and MDF. The construction process is developed in the Grupo Bono factory, which has the highest production technology in the furniture manufacturing industry.
- Design Challenge
- The biggest challenge is to find the perfect balance between aesthetics, form, materials and technologies, with an adjusted manufacturing cost price. Considering that our client is part of a medium segment with high production and turnover. High visual impact + maximum functionality // High productivity + low cost.
- Research
- Extensive market research conducted by our client, as well as historical knowledge of the actual needs of users, provides us with information to place the product in the right range. Different analyses of trends in the habitat sector give us enough information to determine which range of colours and materials we should select. Our cultural background and accumulated experience in the design of home furnishings mark the formal lines of our design.
- Inspiration
- Two concepts: the play of volumes and transparencies, plus the combination of materials. The inspiration comes from the contrast of lacquered unicolor surfaces against textures such as stones or wood with their natural imperfections, as well as the integrated solid surface washbasin and smoked glass. Complex vs. simple... Uniqueness for plurality..., to create a concept of bathroom furniture that is unique for the majority of users, where it can combine harmoniously with the rest of the elements
- Project Duration
- This Project started in Valencia (SPAIN) in June 2023 and is currently in the last phase of completion.
- Operation Flow
- The furniture in the Avant collection is simple to use. Doors and drawers open with cushioned closure.
The Avant mirror has a rotation and approach system for the magnifying lens, practicable by hand. - Patents
- Copyrights belong to Manuel Durán Pérez, 2025
- Image Credits
- All Images: Photographer (In-Imagen), Designer (Manolo Durán), Name of Work (Avant Colection), Year of Image (2024)
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