Press Release
Percy Laundry Hamper by Yu Ren Receives the A' Design Award in Furniture Design
The international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Yu Ren for furniture design
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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Percy Laundry Hamper by Yu Ren, designed for Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd., has been granted the A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2024 - 2025 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the A' Design Award Means
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 Percy Laundry Hamper
Percy is a laundry hamper designed for bathrooms and laundry rooms. The frame is made of corrosion-resistant metal tubing with a particleboard top surface. The basket is offered in three surface materials: imitation rattan, teslin and cotton rope. Imitation rattan and teslin are waterproof and moisture-proof, so the basket does not become moldy in damp spaces and can be wiped clean. The basket slides out without moving the frame or the top surface. Lockable swivel casters allow easy movement. Percy measures 850 by 375 by 650 millimeters.
About Yu Ren
China's emerging furniture designer-Ren Yu, he is an interesting furniture designer, loves life, and has always been passionate about new things. For Ren Yu, design is not an empty concept, let alone a popular element. It is an insight into rooted life. Expressing his own thinking through design; for design, in addition to form and function, he seeks the beauty of the text of the product, trying to create a dialogue with the user through the product.
Award Record
With this recognition, Yu Ren is a winner of 46 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2020 - 2021 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/164794
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/164794
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!164794
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/294475
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Percy Laundry Hamper
- Function
- Laundry Hamper
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Light Gray, Gainsboro, Dark Gray, Tan and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yu Ren
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #164794
Credits
- Team
- Yating Pang, Xiabing Li, Youjin Song, Yanru Chen and Xu Wang
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Dirty clothes storage is an indispensable household item for the family, and the Percy dirty clothes storage series hopes to provide users with a more humanized experience and a choice that is more suitable for the home space. Unlike traditional fabric laundry baskets, Percy chose to use a natural and minimalist pattern unique to imitation rattan, teslin and cotton rope to perfectly solve the problem of damp and moldy in the bathroom laundry room.
- Inspiration
- Usually fabric laundry baskets are consumables because they are easily damaged by mold and mildew when left in the damp space of bathrooms and laundry rooms for a long time. We hope to have a laundry basket that solves the above problems, and to provide customers with beautiful and durable products by re-endowing them with new materials and functions, as well as a series of storage products. Reduce product replacement due to objective reasons, and make the product more beautiful and durable.
- Research
- Since most of the laundry baskets are made of fabric, the disposal rate is high. There are very few products on the market that can meet the requirements of functionality, durability and aesthetics at the same time, and this time Percy has a small laundry organizer in addition to a laundry basket. Percy also solves the problem of dirty laundry baskets becoming moldy due to dampness and fitting into the home space.
- Challenge
- The biggest challenge in the process of realization and research is how to solve the problem of mildew and rot in the humid environment encountered in the storage of dirty clothes, and how to make the product better adapt to the home environment. The design must take into account the needs of different users for laundry storage, such as basic laundry storage needs and laundry storage needs with additional functions.
- Realization and Technology
- Percy dirty clothes storage series frame uses sturdy, corrosion-resistant metal pipes and particleboard tabletops, the surface material of the dirty clothes storage basket is three, namely natural style imitation rattan, teslin and cotton rope, the production process is mature, imitation rattan and teslin are usually used in outdoor products The material is waterproof and moisture-proof, durable and non-toxic, and will not be moldy and rotten because of the humid environment, so it is completely suitable for bathroom and laundry scenes.
- Operation and Interaction
- The framed laundry basket of the Percy laundry organizer series can be pulled out directly without moving the frame and the top storage table, which is easy to use and hide. Imitation rattan and teslin are waterproof, so they can be scrubbed directly if they are dirty. The 360-degree swivel casters help you move your laundry basket full of laundry with ease, plus all wheels are lockable to prevent accidental movement.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Zhengzhou in March 2024 and was completed in September 2024.
- Specifications
- 850 mm × 375 mm × 650 mm
- Keywords
- Laundry hamper, Dirty clothes storage, Household items, Imitation rattan weaving, Teslin
