Six Senses Mensa Billiarda by Mingzhi Cai and Fengshi Li

Six Senses Mensa Billiarda by Mingzhi Cai and Fengshi Li is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum in Editio Limitata Competition Category.

FerrumEditio Limitata· 2025

Six Senses Mensa Billiarda

by Mingzhi Cai and Fengshi Li

Client: Demi Industrial Design Co.，Ltd

Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum Winner in Editio Limitata Category

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The Design

About Six Senses Mensa Billiarda

Hoc schema designationis producti culturam Sinarum millenalem "Peregrinatio ad Occidentem" integrat, quod in mercatum iam introductum est et sex narrationes depingit. Duo schemata colorum ad emendum disponibilia sunt, descriptio filo aureo et politura aeris. Post 700 dies investigationis materialium et litterarum, 20 artifices schemata colorum designationesque anaglyphorum emendaverunt. Hoc tantum pars primaeva eius est, ubi technologia moderna in processu productionis adhibetur ut necessitatibus introductionis producti satisfaciat et consumatoribus convivium visuale praebeat.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum

Six Senses Mensa Billiarda victor est Praemii A' Design Award Ferreum, honoris amplissimi formis bonis dati, quae postulatis professionalibus et industrialibus ab creationibus bene formatis exspectatis satisfaciunt. Victores Ferrei magnam peritiam, altam specializationem, intellectum periti et facultatem creandi auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Six Senses Mensa Billiarda creationem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, practicam et novam fore. Haec forma Ferreo victa optimas industriae consuetudines integrat et proprietates technicas idoneas, cum scientia et talento coniunctas, habet. Six Senses Mensa Billiarda ob diligentiam suam honoratur et ad vitae qualitatem emendandam formatum est, ut mundum meliorem reddere iuvet.

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).