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Songmics Home Design Team Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Alan Children's Furniture Set in Furniture Design
Songmics Home Design Team acknowledged for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 25, 2026 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Alan Children's Furniture Set by Songmics Home Design Team, designed for Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd., has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category. The result belongs to the 2025 - 2026 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.
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.
More About Alan Children's Furniture Set
Alan is a children's furniture set designed for children aged three to seven. The collection includes tables, chairs, bookshelves, wall shelves and adjustable coat racks. Shelves and coat racks use screw lifts, so the height can be changed as a child grows and items stay within reach. The sensory table offers hidden storage, a double sided top and magnetic side panels for varied activities. Beech wood forms the structure, while plywood with solid wood veneer is used for large panels to limit deformation. The set suits small homes and kindergartens.
Award Record
This recognition makes Songmics Home Design Team a winner of 12 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted in the 2025 - 2026 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/180121
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/180121
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!180121
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/369407
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Alan Children's Furniture Set
- Function
- Children's Furniture Set
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Light Gray, White, Tan, Silver and Rosy Brown
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Ziel Home Furnishing Technology Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Songmics Home Design Team
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2025 - 2026
- Design ID
- #180121
Credits
- Team
- Gao Zhe, Yang Peishan and Song Youjin
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This collection includes tables, chairs, bookshelves, wall shelves and adjustable coat racks, with core concepts: daily education, lifelong usability, eco-friendliness. Adjustable pieces foster kids’ order by independent access; the sensory table with hidden storage suits diverse activities. Solid wood with natural texture aligns with nature education’s "sensory first" principle, fitting small homes, kindergartens.
- Inspiration
- As more parents take educational adaptability as a key consideration when buying children’s furniture, this project redesigns such furniture centering on independent exploration, sensory development and scenario-based learning. It helps parents and educators create child-led spaces, reshaping single-function furniture into an educational scenario solution for 3-7-year-olds to explore independently, learn collaboratively and grow with companionship.
- Research
- Based on market research of furniture for 3 - 7-year-old children in Europe and America, this project focuses on the core educational ideas of independent exploration, sensory development, and scenario-based learning. By combining market trends, user needs, and early childhood education concepts, it improves accessibility, open play, and features a lightweight design for growth. At the same time, it has neutral colors and smooth lines, so it can match home styles with an aesthetic design.
- Challenge
- The children's furniture market has different needs from parents and kids, and different user groups have different preferences for concepts. The main challenge is to avoid overloading products with too many functions. A single product should focus on 1 - 2 main concepts while still being open to other ideas. It's important to balance educational value and playfulness. If you focus too much on either one, it won't work well. You need to clearly target specific groups. Making a product suitable for everyone will make it lose its unique features.
- Realization and Technology
- This series uses beech wood as the structural base. It can resist the wear caused by toddlers' daily play and solve the durability problem.Large components like tabletop and shelf backboards adopt plywood instead of solid wood, addressing both anti-deformation and cost balance. Matched with solid wood veneer and solid wood frame for visual unity, it avoids material dissonance. Solid wood pretreatment, CNC precision machining, safe sanding and eco-friendly spraying ensure product safety and compliance.
- Operation and Interaction
- Rooted in the child-led space concept, this furniture series fits 3-7-year-olds. Shelves and coat racks have adjustable screw lifts for easy access. The sensory table-chair set has storage, double-sided tabletops and magnetic side panels, meeting parents’ demands for safety, education, durability, eco-friendliness and kids’ traits of independence, play and collaboration.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Shenzhen in April 2025 and was completed in Shenzhen in September 2025.
- Specifications
- Sensory table: Width 790mm x Depth 590mm x Height 510mm Set: Width 330mm x Depth 360mm x Height 500mm Bench: Width 790mm x Depth 360mm x Height 500mm
- Keywords
- children's furniture, sensory table, adjustable height coat rack, rotating bookshelf
