The Grand Bandeja de Chá by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang

The Grand Bandeja de Chá by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Ferro in Design de Formas de Forno, Louça, Copos e Panelas Competition Category.

FerroUtensílios de Cozinha· 2020

The Grand Bandeja de Chá

by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang

Client: Wushi Design

A' Design Award de Ferro Winner in Utensílios de Cozinha Category

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The Design

About The Grand Bandeja de Chá

O Grand é uma bandeja de chá concebida para a preparação tradicional do chá chinês. O corpo principal é feito de pedra negra, com uma incrustação de pedra nobre posicionada segundo a proporção áurea. A superfície da bandeja apresenta uma forma geométrica escalonada, com um desnível gradual entre os níveis mais altos e mais baixos. A água escorre da zona superior, onde repousa o bule, até à zona inferior, onde ficam as chávenas, sendo depois escoada por uma saída oculta. A pedra é moldada por maquinação CNC com acabamento manual complementar, e a superfície é polida.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Ferro

The Grand Bandeja de Chá conquistou o A' Design Award de Ferro, um reconhecimento prestigiado atribuído a bons designs que cumprem os requisitos profissionais e industriais esperados de criações bem concebidas. Os vencedores do Ferro demonstram grande habilidade, elevada especialização, compreensão especializada e capacidade criativa dos seus criadores. Espera-se que The Grand Bandeja de Chá seja uma criação muito considerada, admirada e estimada, prática e inovadora. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Ferro integra as melhores práticas do setor e tem características técnicas competentes associadas a conhecimento especializado e talento. Pela sua minúcia, The Grand Bandeja de Chá merece respeito e destina-se a proporcionar melhorias na qualidade de vida que ajudam a tornar o mundo num lugar melhor.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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.