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The Collector Wine Cellar by Zsolt Szalai Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Furniture Design
Zsolt Szalai acknowledged for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that The Collector Wine Cellar by Zsolt Szalai, designed for BFZ Barrierefreie Zone GmbH, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Regarding The Collector Wine Cellar
A wine cellar that draws all eyes. It is handmade and planned for a real wine lover. The combination of the burnished steel frames with partially colored insulating glass, make it look stable but at the same time airy. With special temperature control, this walk-in room provides enough space for cooling, storing and collecting wine. On the opposite side, there is a pivot door, also handmade of burnished steel. In the recesses of the door, the colored glass is found again.
About Zsolt Szalai
Zsolt Szalai ist ein Künstler und Designer aus Ungarn. Er verbindet Kunst mit Innenarchitektur und verwandelt Skulpturen in Möbel. Sein Konzept ist es, durch geschickte Material- und Farbwahl reduzierte, aber gleichzeitig einladende Umgebungen und Räume zu schaffen. Reizüberflutung soll vermieden und Umwelteinflüsse ausgeblendet werden. Gleich zu Beginn der Projekte hat Zsolt Szalai meist schon Visionen, was dabei herauskommt und wie genau was gebaut wird. Bereits mit Beginn seiner Karriere, etwa Mitte der 90er Jahre, begann er, Metall/Stahl und Corian im Innenraum zu verwenden und war damit seiner Zeit voraus.
Award Record
With this recognition, Zsolt Szalai is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted in the 2022 - 2023 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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/148522
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/148522
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!148522
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/338945
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.bf-zone.at
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- The Collector Wine Cellar
- Function
- Wine Cellar
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Sienna, Gray, Black, Maroon and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- BFZ Barrierefreie Zone GmbH
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Zsolt Szalai
- Country
- Austria
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #148522
Credits
- Image Credits
- 1: Photographer Matthias Streibel, The collector with colored glass, 2022 2: Photographer Matthias Streibel, The collector without colored glass, 2022 3: Photographer Matthias Streibel, pivot door, 2022 4: Photographer Matthias Streibel, pivot door and staircase, 2022 5: Photographer Matthias Streibel, Details, 2022
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- A wine cellar that draws all eyes. It is handmade and planned for a real wine lover. The combination of the burnished steel frames with partially colored insulating glass, make it look stable but at the same time airy. With special temperature control, this walk-in room provides enough space for cooling, storing and collecting wine. On the opposite side, there is a pivot door, also handmade of burnished steel. In the recesses of the door, the colored glass is found again.
- Inspiration
- The 3-floor house, in which the wine cellar and the pivot door are located, has been purposely reduced and conceptually planned. When the construction of the house was in full progress, the designer, Zsolt Szalai, had a vision about the collector.
- Research
- For the burnished steel, the artist has developed a secret technology with which he treats the steel to achieve this special effect. This type of surface treatment and the production by hand make each piece unique.
- Challenge
- The plan was to have two wine refrigerators, which did not look very inviting. When the artist Zsolt Szalai heard about it, it motivated him to plan something special from instead, because collecting and drinking wine is a special form of art.
- Realization and Technology
- The materials used for this project were DuPont Corian, burnished steel and insulating glass, some colored, some transparent.
- Operation and Interaction
- The artist planned to use subtle color accents in the form of colored glass to create more coziness. The semi-transparent colors can now be found in the glass front of the wine cellar as well as in the openings of the opposite pivot door.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project duration was from May to June 2021, in Brunn am Gebirge, Austria.
- Specifications
- The collector has an approximate total size of 7 square meters.
- Keywords
- timeless, luxurious, sculpture, unique, colored glass, steel, wien cellar
