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Nicolas Woll Receives the Golden A' Design Award for Sphere Vase in Homeware Design
The international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Nicolas Woll for homeware design
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Sphere Vase by Nicolas Woll, designed for Iconic Home, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Homeware Design category. The recognition forms part of 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Golden A' Design Award Explained
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
More About Sphere Vase
Sphere is a vase designed for fresh flowers, dried flowers and use as a room fragrance diffuser. The outer surface combines deep grooves and clear lines to create a depth effect that changes with the viewing angle and the incidence of light. Sphere is 3D printed from bio-based PLA, and each vase takes between 5 and 15 hours to produce, depending on size. A waterproof inner container, also 3D printed, is made of recyclable polypropylene. Production uses self-generated solar electricity. Sphere is offered in three sizes.
About Nicolas Woll
Nicolas Woll is the designer and CEO of Designscape Creative GmbH, the company behind ICONIC HOME. With a keen sense of form, material and innovation, he creates iconic vases that reinterpret traditional design. Using state-of-the-art 3D printing technology and sustainable materials such as bio-based PLA, he combines aesthetic excellence with ecological responsibility. His designs have been honoured with prestigious design awards and represent a unique combination of technology, art and functionality. As the creative mind behind ICONIC HOME, Nicolas Woll pursues the goal of combining exceptional design with sustainable production methods.
Award Record
This recognition makes Nicolas Woll a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Decorative Items and Homeware Design Award
The A' Homeware Design Award is an international homeware design competition recognizing good homeware designs by leading brands and designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to homeware designers, product designers, industrial design studios and ceramic artists from all countries. Entries typically include tableware, lighting fixtures, cookware, decorative accessories, bathroom accessories and furniture. Awarded homeware designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/homeware
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/167890
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/167890
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!167890
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/357020
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://iconichome.com/en/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Sphere Vase
- Function
- Vase
- Category
- Homeware Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Light Gray, White Smoke, Dim Gray, Gray and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Iconic Home
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Nicolas Woll
- Country
- Germany
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #167890
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The Sphere vases by Iconic Home become objects with an extraordinary depth effect. Depending on the incidence of light, the vases can be rediscovered from every angle. The iconic vase is elaborately manufactured in the company's own design factory in Germany using a 3D printing process from bio-based PLA. The complex manufacturing process for a single vase takes up to 15 hours.
- Inspiration
- The Iconic Home vases combine innovative manufacturing, aesthetic design and sustainability. Precise 3D printing creates filigree structures with a unique depth effect that conventional techniques cannot achieve. Made from bio-based PLA and with an energy-efficient manufacturing process, they are not only visually impressive, but also environmentally friendly - a perfect interplay of technology, design and sustainability.
- Research
- In our design research-based study for the development of the Iconic Home vases, we investigated bio-based PLA as a renewable material. The aim was to realise a vase with an extraordinary depth effect using iterative prototypes and experimental 3D printing processes. We optimised the 3D design with material analyses, expert feedback and test groups. The results promote sustainable design, economic innovation and social acceptance of environmentally friendly products.
- Challenge
- The biggest challenge was realising the complex 3D print design for the large-format Sphere vase. In addition to internal factors such as historical design development and social demands, we had to develop a 15-hour printing process that would work seamlessly from the first to the last second. External factors such as legal requirements, production possibilities and technological limitations required innovative solutions in order to realise a high-quality, functional end product.
- Realization and Technology
- The Sphere vase is made from bio-based PLA using an innovative 3D printing process. Depending on the size, it takes between 5 and 15 hours to produce each vase. Production is carried out sustainably using self-generated PV electricity, which minimises the carbon footprint. The waterproof inner container made of 3D-printed polypropylene is not only durable, but also 100% recyclable, which further emphasises the vase's environmental friendliness.
- Operation and Interaction
- The vases are not only suitable for fresh flowers, but also for dried flowers and as room fragrance diffusers. Thanks to a special manufacturing technique, the vases are water-resistant and robust - ideal for versatile use in the home.
- Project Duration and Location
- It took around a year from the initial development to the finished production of the Iconic Home vases. After an intensive design and test phase, the official market launch took place in November 2023.
- Specifications
- Sphere Size S: 162 mm x 162 mm x 200 mm Sphere Size M: 211 mm x 211 mm x 260 mm Sphere Size L: 260 mm x 260 mm x 320 mm
- Keywords
- Vase, innovative 3D printing, designobjet, sustainable design, modern
