Six Senses ビリヤードテーブル by Mingzhi Cai and Fengshi Li

Six Senses ビリヤードテーブル by Mingzhi Cai and Fengshi Li is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award 鉄賞 in 限定版・カスタムデザイン Competition Category.

鉄限定版· 2025

Six Senses ビリヤードテーブル

by Mingzhi Cai and Fengshi Li

Client: Demi Industrial Design Co.，Ltd

A' Design Award 鉄賞 Winner in 限定版 Category

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The Design

About Six Senses ビリヤードテーブル

中国の千年に及ぶ西遊記文化を融合させた製品デザインです。既に市場に投入されており、6つの物語シーンを描いています。金線描写とブロンズ研磨の2種類のカラーバリエーションが用意されています。700日間の素材研究と文献調査を経て、20名のアーティストがカラースキームとレリーフデザインを調整しました。これはプロジェクト初期段階の一部であり、製品化の要求を満たし消費者に視覚的饗宴を提供するため、製造工程に現代技術が活用されています。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鉄賞

Six Senses ビリヤードテーブルは、よく設計された創造物に期待される専門的・産業的要件を満たす優れたデザインに授与される、権威ある評価である A' Design Award 鉄賞の受賞作品です。鉄賞の受賞作品は、制作者の高い技量、高度な専門性、専門家としての理解、創造的な能力を示しています。Six Senses ビリヤードテーブルは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される、実用的で革新的な創造物であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 鉄賞を受賞したデザインは、業界のベストプラクティスを統合し、ノウハウと才能に結びついた有能な技術的特性を備えています。Six Senses ビリヤードテーブルは、その徹底ぶりで尊敬され、世界をより良い場所にするための生活の質の向上をもたらすよう設計されています。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The colors of Chinese mythology stories are integrated into it, combined with art painting techniques, carving and shaping techniques, and jewelry inlay techniques. The stone slabs are polished and polished more than 10 times, using walnut wood as the top material. The sound of hitting the ball is crisp, and the ball movement is smooth. The color scheme uses two color schemes，dark green gold court color scheme and blue antique bronze color scheme.
Dimensions & Packaging: 2810 * 1600 * 850mm, packaged as solid wood frame, with installation drawings for disassembly and assembly structure
Tags: Billiards Table, Sports Equipment, Competition Table, Chinese Black Eight Ball Table
Production Technology: The relief is hand carved and then commercially produced by flipping silicone molds. The legs are carved by CNC machine tools, and the tabletop is surrounded by solid wood inlaid with mother of pearl abalone shells, which is commonly used in Southeast Asian royal furniture craftsmanship. The art artwork above is a Chinese Gongbi painting. Hundreds of art artists participated in the submission process and selected exquisite story paintings. After high-definition scanning and inkjet printing, they were embedded into the product.
Design Challenge: The original story is presented to the world in words, and designers create these paintings and shapes through their understanding and imagination of the words; His production process was very difficult in the early stages because it involved manual shaping and painting. When he received the first version of the design, it brought a stunning feeling to all the audience present, and everyone was excited. Subsequently, the designer optimized the technology of modern commercial production, preserving the original beauty of the design in a more primitive way.
Research: The designer conducted 700 days of research on cultural stories and planned the direction by mastering technical knowledge. During the 3D modeling process, they tried hundreds of sculpture modeling schemes and concretized them. Twenty participants raised thousands of adjustment questions from different professional perspectives. Most modern cases focus on business, and the design team has given this product a new aesthetic height through cultural aesthetics. The success of this case will bring confidence to more creators.
Inspiration: This is a Chinese billiards table. The inspiration comes from the Chinese mythological story Journey to the West. The six display panels have six themes, including the powerful Bull Demon King, the burning Guanyin Temple, the late drum, the Little Western Heaven, the Battle of the Hundred Eyed Demons, and the Golden Country Wind Returning to Flower and Fruit Mountain. The fusion of cultural colors brings charm to the product. The shape of the six legs is the Sea God Needle. The six column head relief represents the six senses of Buddhism.
Project Duration: The project was designed and conceptualized in Shengfang Town, Langfang City, Hebei Province, China in October 2023, and exhibited in Beijing, China in December 2024, attracting the attention of the audience.
Operation Flow: Four artistic creation techniques were used: relief, gold inlay, inlay, and meticulous painting. Components are produced together through the artist's craftsmanship. By modeling the manuscript and 3D printing, make a sample model in advance for preliminary preview. After confirming the formal standards, the art director made six months of improvements to the details, shapes, and color schemes. Now, the visual effects brought to everyone are almost perfect.
Patents: Chinese patent:202430716608.9/holder:Cai MingZhi/Effective year:2024.11/
Team Members: Design Director ：Cai Mingzhi[new line]
Art director：Li Fengshi[new line]
Mentor：Zhang Yafang
Image Credits: Image #1:Illustrator/Cai Mingzhi(Design Director) sculptor/Li Fengshi(Art director)，
Image #2:Design Director: Illustrator/Cai Mingzhi(Design Director) sculptor/Li Fengshi(Art director)，
Image #3:Design Director: Illustrator/Cai Mingzhi(Design Director) sculptor/Li Fengshi(Art director)，
Image #4:Design Director: Illustrator/Cai Mingzhi(Design Director) sculptor/Li Fengshi(Art director)，
Image #5:Illustrator/Cai Mingzhi(Design Director) sculptor/Zhang YaFang(Instructor).