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A8zk Steam Combi Oven Range by Dezhong Fan Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Home Appliances Design
Dezhong Fan honored for home appliances design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that A8zk Steam Combi Oven Range by Dezhong Fan, designed for Zhejiang Seng Electronic Appliance Co Ltd, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Home Appliances Design category. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About A8zk Steam Combi Oven Range
A8zk Steam Combi is an integrated oven range for modern home kitchens. Kitchen ventilator, range, steamer and oven functions are combined in one unit, supporting 17 cooking methods while saving space. An intelligent ventilator and cooker linkage system allows one-key operation, and a touch screen panel offers six air speed settings. A smoke baffle turns 90 degrees to limit smoke overflow, and a five-stage oil-fume separation system extracts 98 percent of the oil in the fume. Black crystal glass and silver stainless steel form the symmetrical, ergonomic body.
About Dezhong Fan
The design concept is human-centred, using aesthetically pleasing design to solve current social problems; pursuing a harmonious unity of function and safety and environmental protection.
Award Record
With this recognition, Dezhong Fan is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Home Appliances Design Award
The A' Home Appliance Design Award is an international competition recognizing good home appliance designs by best appliance designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to home appliance designers, industrial designers, product engineers and appliance brands from all countries. Entries typically include refrigerators, dishwashers, microwaves, washing machines, dryers and ovens. Awarded home appliance designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/home-appliance
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/115481
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/115481
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!115481
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/293649
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.senge-dq.com/
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- A8zk Steam Combi Oven Range
- Function
- Oven Range
- Category
- Home Appliances Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Electronics & Appliances and Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Light Slate Gray, Silver and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Zhejiang Seng Electronic Appliance Co Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Dezhong Fan
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #115481
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Seng A8 Steam Combi Oven Range, designed to meet diverse needs of users, integrates the functions such as kitchen ventilator, range, steamer and oven, and perfectly supports 17 cooking methods in modern kitchen, saving the space and offering the user unrestricted cooking experience.
- Inspiration
- In Chinese cuisine, there are 26 cooking methods to make the best taste of food. However, as the kitchen area increasingly shrinks and the modern family kitchen is popularized, it is difficult to use Chinese cooking methods in the kitchen.
- Research
- It is designed with a central symmetrical aesthetic, with perfect symmetry between left and right, reflecting a hint of tranquility, which fits perfectly with the Chinese pursuit of introspection and simplicity. The body dimensions are designed with reference to ergonomics, creating a comfortable space for cooking. In China, the colour black is similar to iron and has been used since ancient times to symbolise "rigidity and perseverance". The choice of black crystal glass as the main colour reflects the Chinese attitude of calmness and restraint and a strong will to live.
- Challenge
- In Chinese cuisine, there are 26 cooking methods to make the best taste of food. However, as the kitchen area increasingly shrinks and the modern family kitchen is popularized, it is difficult to use Chinese cooking methods in the kitchen. To solve this problem, this product needed to be designed to be modern and suitable for Chinese use, and this was the difficult part of the design.
- Realization and Technology
- The product has elegant and simple appearance and dependable design. Its main color is highlighted by its black crystal glass and silver stainless steel, which embodies Chinese people's penchant for simplicity and staidness. Its dimensions are ergonomically designed to enable the most comfortable cooking space possible.
- Operation and Interaction
- A8zk is equipped with an intelligent ventilator-cooker linkage system which enables the one-key linkage. The touch screen control panel with 6-shfit air-speed control allows the user to operate the equipment visually and handily. The smoke baffle can be turned by 90 degrees to fully exhaust all smoke and prevent smoke overflow; the first-of-its-kind five-stage oil-fume separation technology can extract 98% oil in the fume, which significantly improves smoke extraction efficiency.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in August 2019 in Shengzhou and finished in April 2020 in Shengzhou.
- Specifications
- The size is 900mm x 600mm x 1335mm.
- Keywords
- Modern, Cooker, Stove, Steam, Elegant
