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Kuan Armchair by Fnji Ltd - Frank Chou Is Granted the A' Design Award in Furniture Design
Fnji Ltd - Frank Chou acknowledged for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category for Kuan Armchair by Fnji Ltd - Frank Chou, designed for FNJI x Frank Chou. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached 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.
About the A' Design Award
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
About Kuan Armchair
Kuan is an armchair designed for contemporary living spaces. The structure is simple and unpretentious, combining metal with wool upholstery. The volume of the seat, the lines of the frame and the contrast between solid and empty forms reflect the reserved character of oriental philosophy. The cover is made of imported wool fabric, stabilized by a traditional process to create a smooth surface with good resistance to wear and pilling. Layers of sponge of different densities are combined to give a comfortable seat. Kuan is available with different covering materials.
About Fnji Ltd - Frank Chou
Brand: Fnji is an independent furniture brand founded in 2010 by designer Guqi Gao. Fnji ideal is to make practical, sturdy, durable and elegant everyday furniture. Designer: Frank Chou Design Studio is founded by Frank Chou in 2012 and now becomes a representative independent design studio in China, which has attracted the attention of professional media and industry at home and abroad.
Award Record
Fnji Ltd - Frank Chou is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Furniture Design Award
The A' Furniture Design Award is an international furniture competition recognizing good furniture designs by best furniture designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to furniture designers, product designers, industrial design studios and furniture brands from all countries. Typical entries include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. The awarded furniture designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/furniture
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/138629
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/138629
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!138629
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/328924
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.fnji.com/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Kuan Armchair
- Function
- Armchair
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Lavender, Rosy Brown, Sienna and Light Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- FNJI x Frank Chou
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Fnji Ltd - Frank Chou
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #138629
Credits
- Team
- Frank Chou
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Kuan Chair represents a style of contemporary oriental manner. The structure of this chair is simple and unpretentious. With high quality metal and wool materials, Kuan Chair also reveals the bywords for elegance and wisdom. The different feelings experienced by the volume of its seat, the lines of its structure, and the contrast between substance and emptiness, almost shows the reserved thoughts in Oriental philosophy. It is available with different covering materials.
- Inspiration
- Kuan Chair is one of the pieces Frank Chou designed for FNJI. It is more free and agility in design, aim at modern and young generation, fusing contemporary design language, simple but warm, elegant and timeless. It contains the modern oriental ideology, molding the pioneer concept of exploring the ability of Chinese future lifestyle.
- Research
- Kuan Chair is a new experimental series design by Frank Chou for furniture brand Fnji. It is vested diversified color and outline, meanwhile added in plenty of software and metal element. It contains the modern oriental ideology, molding the pioneer concept of exploring the ability of Chinese future lifestyle.
- Challenge
- The challenge could be how to explore the possibility of future living through design, which requires a deep understanding of the living status of people and the culture background that different from the others. Also, as part of daily life, chair plays a close role with people, which correspond with their living habits and personality.
- Realization and Technology
- Kuan Chair adopts Italian brand imported wool fabric, which is stabilized by traditional process to obtain specific surface effect, giving smooth and soft hand feeling, and can achieve excellent resistance to pilling and wear resistance.
- Operation and Interaction
- Cloth cover to take tight package process, soft package body form three-dimensional distinct, cloth surface flat fit, using multiple layers of different density of sponge combination filling to achieve a comfortable sitting feeling.
- Project Duration and Location
- Kuan Chair was designed and produced in 2018.
- Specifications
- 690 mm x 735 mm x 670 mm
- Keywords
- timeless, contrast, oriental, experimental
