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The Grand 茶盤(ティートレイ) by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang

The Grand 茶盤(ティートレイ) by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 鉄賞 in ベイクウェア・テーブルウェア・ドリンクウェア・クックウェアデザイン Competition Category.


鉄キッチン用品· 2020

The Grand 茶盤(ティートレイ)

by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang

Client: Wushi Design

A' Design Award 鉄賞 Winner in キッチン用品 Category

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The Design

About The Grand 茶盤(ティートレイ)

「The Grand」は、中国伝統の茶の湯(中国茶)を淹れるために設計された茶盤です。本体は黒石で作られ、黄金分割に基づいて高級石材の象嵌が施されています。盤面は高低差のあるグラデーションを備えた階段状の幾何学的形状に造形されています。水は急須を置く高い面から、茶杯を置く低い面へと流れ、隠された排水口から排出されます。石材はCNC加工に手作業を加えて成形され、表面は研磨仕上げされています。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鉄賞

The Grand 茶盤(ティートレイ)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。The Grand 茶盤(ティートレイ)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。The Grand 茶盤(ティートレイ)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

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

Unique Properties
From the perspective of industrial design, "the grand" creatively combines luxury stone and tea tray design with the CNC machining technology. Not only is the overall modelling contracted, it skillfully realize The function of the tea tray to drain water by the precise calculation of geometric surface form 3.5 shelving.
Dimensions & Packaging
width 900mm x depth 280mm x height30mm
Tags
Stone, simple, tea tray, Oriental aesthetics
Production Technology
The design uses PROE to build a 3-dimension model, use CNC to process stone material and use polished fire for surface treatment.From the perspective of industrial design, "the grand" creatively combines luxury stone and tea tray design with the CNC machining technology. and skillfully realize the function of the tea tray to drain water by the precise calculation of geometric surface form 3.5 shelving. The main body of "the grand" is made of black stone, which is embedded luxury stone according to the rules of the golden section, looking exquisite and breaking through the visual imagination.
Design Challenge
As the hidden outlet is inclined to open slot, CNC machining is difficult to realize itself. But combineing with some manual processing operation would solve the problem perfect.
Research
By studying the process of traditional Chinese tea brewing, the high and low gradient of the tea tray is designed to match the users' daily behaviors and to achieve the goal of natural interaction. As a better kind of natural material for tea disk carrier, stone is more waterproof and wear-resisting than others.
Inspiration
Luxury stone, high-end, scarce, unique, shining with the spirit of jewel.
The main body of "the grand" is made of black stone, which is embedded luxury stone according to the rules of the golden section, looking exquisite and natural picturesque, breaking through the visual imagination and emanating from the inside out noble sense.
Project Duration
The design began in xiamen in April 2017 and completed in December 2017.
Operation Flow
The teapot is usually placed high and the cup is placed low while making tea. So as to the tea water will flow from high to low through the gradient of the disk height, which provides convenience to use.
Patents
zl201830314677.1
Team Members
gang wang
Image Credits
guokun wang,industrial designer, 2017.

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