Iron Furniture Design · 2022
Home Away from Home Furniture
by Nio Life
- A' Design Award 2022 Iron Winner in Furniture Design
- Awarded April 15, 2022
- CLIENT: NIO Life
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About Home Away from Home Furniture
Home Away from Home is a furniture series that includes poufs, tea stools and lamps for storage and lighting. The series is made from leftover materials from automobile manufacturing, such as surplus seat belt fabric, airbag fabric, leather and metal offcuts, together with Karuun wood. The lamp can be placed in the middle of a room, on a dining table or on a balcony. A leather band allows the Cotton Cloud lamp to be hung. The poufs come in three sizes and trims and can serve as extra seating.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- This furniture series such as end poufs, tea stools and lamps for both storage and lighting, is made of leftovers in automobile manufacturing. Following the NIO design approach, this series combines aesthetics, innovation and care altogether, creating a soft and comfortable atmosphere for the home.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Multi dimensions
- Production Technology
- Pegasus waste: Nappa leather, Fly fabric and seatbelt in Vetiver Terracotta and Skyline colors. Waste of seat foams and textile backings. Made with recycled materials from airbag fabric of NIO, metal/leather leftovers, and Karuun wood.
- Design Challenge
- The challenge in innovation is how to convey the understanding of sustainability to users through NIO design in a unique style. The "Home Away from Home" Concept Furniture Series is exactly an exploration that Blue Sky Lab launches to pioneer future home lifestyles.
- Project Duration
- The project was launched in December 2020, and debuted at Shanghai International Automobile Exhibition in April 2021.
- Operation Flow
- You can place the lamp in the middle of the room, on a dining table, or outside on the balcony. The leather band allows you to hang up the Cotton Cloud. The POUFF Collections comes in 3different sizes and trims and can be used as extra seating or to decorate an unused corner of any room.
- Research
- At Auto Shanghai 2021, NIO Life displayed the Blue Sky Lab, a fashion project about auto recycling. Recycled leftovers in auto manufacturing are used to produce fashion collections with an exclusive logo of auto recycling, conveying the environmental protection through material recycling. NIO expects the Blue Sky Lab to create a pleasant and sustainable lifestyle for people. This series will also be a long-term one further collaborating with global designers and brands to launch new products.
- Inspiration
- Blue Sky Lab "Home away from home" concept furniture series is mainly made ofthree kinds of car-grade materials, namely surplus seat belt fabric, airbag material and Haptex leather in automobile manufacturing, creating fashionable collections through recycling.