The Collector Crama by Zsolt Szalai is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Argint in Design de Mobilier Competition Category.
ArgintMobilier· 2023
The Collector Crama
by Zsolt Szalai
Client: BFZ Barrierefreie Zone GmbH
A' Design Award de Argint Winner in Mobilier Category
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The Design
About The Collector Crama
O cramă care atrage toate privirile. Este realizat manual și conceput pentru un adevărat iubitor de vin. Combinația dintre ramele din oțel lustruit cu geamul termoizolant parțial colorat, îl fac să arate stabil, dar în același timp aerisit. Cu un control special al temperaturii, această cameră de intrare oferă suficient spațiu pentru răcire, depozitare și colectare a vinului. Pe partea opusă, există o ușă pivotantă, de asemenea realizată manual din oțel lustruit. În adânciturile ușii se regăsește din nou sticla colorată.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award de Argint
The Collector Crama a câștigat A' Design Award de Argint, o recunoaștere extraordinar de prestigioasă acordată designurilor de top, superbe și impresionante. Câștigătorii Argintului sunt lucrări extraordinar de strălucite și extrem de creative, care ilustrează expertiza, talentul și perspicacitatea remarcabile ale designerilor lor. Se așteaptă ca The Collector Crama să fie o lucrare minunată, de referință, remarcabil de profesionistă și profund inovatoare. Acest design câștigător al A' Design Award de Argint este o invenție foarte notabilă și admirată, care aduce beneficii și împinge limitele artei, științei, designului și tehnologiei. The Collector Crama este o creație extrem de invidiată, care trezește dorințe, aduce sentimente pozitive și stârnește uimire și mirare.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- A wine cellar that draws all eyes. It is handmade and planned for a real wine lover.
The combination of the burnished steel frames with partially colored insulating glass, make it look stable but at the same time airy.
With special temperature control, this walk-in room provides enough space for cooling, storing and collecting wine.
On the opposite side, there is a pivot door, also handmade of burnished steel. In the recesses of the door, the colored glass is found again. - Dimensions & Packaging
- The collector has an approximate total size of 7 square meters.
- Tags
- timeless, luxurious, sculpture, unique, colored glass, steel, wien cellar
- Production Technology
- The materials used for this project were DuPont Corian, burnished steel and insulating glass, some colored, some transparent.
- Design Challenge
- The plan was to have two wine refrigerators, which did not look very inviting. When the artist Zsolt Szalai heard about it, it motivated him to plan something special from instead, because collecting and drinking wine is a special form of art.
- Research
- For the burnished steel, the artist has developed a secret technology with which he treats the steel to achieve this special effect. This type of surface treatment and the production by hand make each piece unique.
- Inspiration
- The 3-floor house, in which the wine cellar and the pivot door are located, has been purposely reduced and conceptually planned. When the construction of the house was in full progress, the designer, Zsolt Szalai, had a vision about the collector.
- Project Duration
- The project duration was from May to June 2021, in Brunn am Gebirge, Austria.
- Operation Flow
- The artist planned to use subtle color accents in the form of colored glass to create more coziness. The semi-transparent colors can now be found in the glass front of the wine cellar as well as in the openings of the opposite pivot door.
- Image Credits
- 1: Photographer Matthias Streibel, The collector with colored glass, 2022
2: Photographer Matthias Streibel, The collector without colored glass, 2022
3: Photographer Matthias Streibel, pivot door, 2022
4: Photographer Matthias Streibel, pivot door and staircase, 2022
5: Photographer Matthias Streibel, Details, 2022
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