The Grand Tea Tray by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang

The Grand Tea Tray by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design Competition Category.

IronKitchenware· 2020

The Grand Tea Tray

by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang

Client: Wushi Design

A' Design Award Winner in Kitchenware Category

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The Design

About The Grand Tea Tray

The Grand is a tea tray designed for traditional Chinese tea brewing. The main body is made of black stone, with an inlay of luxury stone placed according to the golden section. The tray surface is shaped as a stepped geometric form with a gradient between high and low levels. Water flows from the higher area, where the teapot stands, to the lower area, where the cups are placed, and then leaves through a hidden outlet. The stone is shaped by CNC machining with additional manual work, and the surface is polished.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award

The Grand Tea Tray 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. The Grand Tea Tray 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. The Grand Tea Tray is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

Image Analysis

Color Temperature: CoolSymmetry: Both DirectionsBackground: Left and Right

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: From the perspective of industrial design, "the grand" creatively combines luxury stone and tea tray design with the CNC machining technology. Not only is the overall modelling contracted, it skillfully realize The function of the tea tray to drain water by the precise calculation of geometric surface form 3.5 shelving.
Dimensions & Packaging: width 900mm x depth 280mm x height30mm
Tags: Stone, simple, tea tray, Oriental aesthetics
Production Technology: The design uses PROE to build a 3-dimension model, use CNC to process stone material and use polished fire for surface treatment.From the perspective of industrial design, "the grand" creatively combines luxury stone and tea tray design with the CNC machining technology. and skillfully realize the function of the tea tray to drain water by the precise calculation of geometric surface form 3.5 shelving. The main body of "the grand" is made of black stone, which is embedded luxury stone according to the rules of the golden section, looking exquisite and breaking through the visual imagination.
Design Challenge: As the hidden outlet is inclined to open slot, CNC machining is difficult to realize itself. But combineing with some manual processing operation would solve the problem perfect.
Research: By studying the process of traditional Chinese tea brewing, the high and low gradient of the tea tray is designed to match the users' daily behaviors and to achieve the goal of natural interaction. As a better kind of natural material for tea disk carrier, stone is more waterproof and wear-resisting than others.
Inspiration: Luxury stone, high-end, scarce, unique, shining with the spirit of jewel.
The main body of "the grand" is made of black stone, which is embedded luxury stone according to the rules of the golden section, looking exquisite and natural picturesque, breaking through the visual imagination and emanating from the inside out noble sense.
Project Duration: The design began in xiamen in April 2017 and completed in December 2017.
Operation Flow: The teapot is usually placed high and the cup is placed low while making tea. So as to the tea water will flow from high to low through the gradient of the disk height, which provides convenience to use.
Patents: zl201830314677.1
Team Members: gang wang
Image Credits: guokun wang，industrial designer, 2017.