Chifuyu Living Center Table by Yuto Yamada Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design

Yuto Yamada honored 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/ Chifuyu Living Center Table by Yuto Yamada has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2025 - 2026 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

The Bronze A' Design Award Explained

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 Chifuyu Living Center Table

Chifuyu is a low center table designed for living rooms. The form was inspired by an image of two pieces of leather suspended in mid air. A single curving piece of leather shapes the surface and creates a sense of floating. Perforated metal supports the curve and made the complex three dimensional shaping possible. The table measures 950 millimetres in width, 950 millimetres in depth and 280 millimetres in height. The light and suspended appearance is intended to add an extraordinary note to everyday interiors.

Award Record

With this recognition, Yuto Yamada is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. All of the awards belong to 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. 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/177401
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/177401
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!177401
Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/373616

Media Contact

Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Chifuyu Living Center Table
Function: Living Center Table
Category: Furniture Design
Discipline: Industrial Design
Industry: Furniture & Home
Colors: Light Gray, White Smoke, Silver, Tan and Rosy Brown
Images: 5

The Recognition

Laureate: Yuto Yamada
Recognition: Bronze A' Design Award
Edition: 2025 - 2026
Design ID: #177401

Credits

Image Credits: Photographer / Takumi Ota

Design Details

Unique Properties: The curving single piece of leather creates a sense of floating. This center table is almost gravity-beflying. This table, as if suspended in mid-air, will bring a touch of the extraordinary to your everyday life.
Inspiration: While pondering how to create a new table, an image came to mind of two pieces of leather suspended in mid-air. I contemplated how to realise this vision, and arrived at this form.
Challenge: Expressing the shape of a cubic surface and realising it while utilising the skills of engineers proved extremely difficult. Through repeated discussions, we continued to seek the correct solution until completion.
Realization and Technology: The shaping of the tertiary surface proved extremely difficult. It was achieved by employing perforated metal.
Operation and Interaction: This table, as if suspended in mid-air, will bring a touch of the extraordinary to your everyday life.
Project Duration and Location: The project started in Apr. 2020 in Tokyo and finished in Jan. 2021 in Tokyo, and was exhibited in Salone del Mobile in June 2022.
Specifications: w950 x d950 x h280mm
Keywords: Table,low table,center table,Design,Unique