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Mallarme Children Furniture by Wei Jingye and Qi Ruoshan Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design
Wei Jingye and Qi Ruoshan honored for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category for Mallarme Children Furniture by Wei Jingye and Qi Ruoshan, designed for Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided 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.
Regarding Mallarme Children Furniture
Mallarme is a series of children's furniture inspired by insert toys. The parts are joined in a plug-in way, so assembly becomes a form of play. Each supporting structure is made of solid wood in its natural color, cut by machine and polished by hand. A wooden slotted structure connects the wood to parts made by 3D printing. Each printed unit includes storage space for books and toys. The contrast between solid wood and brightly colored plastic creates a childlike look. The furniture is assembled from separate parts, which eases transport.
Award Record
With this recognition, Wei Jingye and Qi Ruoshan is a winner of 35 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2016 - 2017 to 2024 - 2025 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. The competition 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. Entries typically include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. Awarded furniture designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/furniture
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/158967
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/158967
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!158967
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/180555
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Mallarme Children Furniture
- Function
- Children Furniture
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Sandy Brown, Chocolate, Sky Blue, White Smoke and Coral
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Wei Jingye and Qi Ruoshan
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #158967
Credits
- Team
- Wei Jingye, Qi Ruoshan, Zheng Tingyao and Fan Aanran
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Inspired by childhood insert toys, the Mallarme series of furniture assembles the various parts of the furniture in a plug-in way, integrating the fun of splicing toys into the process of assembling furniture. The supporting part of each product is connected to the 3D printed part by a wooden slotted structure. At the same time, each 3D printed monomer is integrated with a storage function to provide users with storage space.
- Inspiration
- The design is inspired by children's insert toys, and the various parts of the furniture are connected through the detachable structure of the inserts to form different shapes of furniture. The contrast between solid wood and highly saturated plastic accentuates a childlike style.
- Research
- Starting from the versatility of furniture, this study combines the detachable structure with the function of the furniture itself, which is suitable for children's daily leisure play, and also provides a large storage space for children's sundries that are difficult to organize.
- Challenge
- Seek the combination of detachable structure and multi functionality of furniture, integrate the detachable structure into the function of the furniture itself, and then combine it with the storage function to maximize the storage space while ensuring the comfortable use of the furniture. Paired with bright colors, it makes it more childlike.
- Realization and Technology
- The supporting structure of the product is made of solid wood in primary color, using modern CNC technology, through machine cutting and manual grinding, and the main part is made of 3D printing molding technology.
- Operation and Interaction
- It is suitable for children to use at leisure, providing users with a comfortable and relaxed feeling, and at the same time, there is also a large amount of storage space to store books and toys and other items, which solves the problem of children's sundries being difficult to store.
- Project Duration and Location
- The design had started in Shenyang in March 2024, completed in Shenyang in June 2024, and displayed in the museum of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang in June in 2024.
- Specifications
- 800mm x 750mm x 950mm, 640mm x 550mm x 800mm, Solid wood of the supporting structure is machine-cut and hand polished, and the main part is formed by 3D printing technology, which is assembled and molded, which is convenient for transportation and has a high degree of modeling freedom.
- Keywords
- Color, Children, Multipurpose, Leisure time, Detachable
