Home Away from Home 家具系列 by Nio Life is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 铁奖 in 家具设计 Competition Category.

铁家具· 2022

Home Away from Home 家具系列

by Nio Life

Client: NIO Life

A' Design Award 铁奖 Winner in 家具 Category

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The Design

About Home Away from Home 家具系列

《家外之家》是一个家具系列,包含具备收纳与照明功能的坐墩、茶几凳和灯具。该系列采用汽车制造过程中的剩余材料制作,如多余的安全带织带、安全气囊面料、皮革和金属边角料,并结合Karuun藤木材质。灯具可置于房间中央、餐桌之上或阳台一隅;皮革吊带则让"棉云"灯得以悬挂使用。坐墩提供三种尺寸与饰面,可作为额外的座椅使用。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铁奖

Home Away from Home 家具系列是 A' Design Award 铁奖得主，这是授予满足人们对设计精良的创作所期待的专业与工业要求的优良设计的声望认可。铁奖得主展现出其创作者的高超技艺、高度专业化、专家级的理解力和创造能力。预计Home Away from Home 家具系列将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的创作，既实用又创新。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铁奖的设计整合了行业最佳实践，并拥有与专业知识和才华相结合的称职技术特性。Home Away from Home 家具系列因其严谨而受到尊重，旨在提供有助于让世界变得更美好的生活品质改善。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

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.
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.
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.
Team Members: NIO
NIO Life