The Grand 茶盤 by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang

The Grand 茶盤 by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 鐵獎 in 廚具設計 Competition Category.

鐵廚具· 2020

The Grand 茶盤

by Guokun Wang and Gang Wang

Client: Wushi Design

A' Design Award 鐵獎 Winner in 廚具 Category

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The Design

About The Grand 茶盤

Book Text: Grand是一款專為中式傳統泡茶而設計的茶盤。主體以黑色石材製成,並按照黃金分割比例鑲嵌名貴石材作點綴。盤面呈階梯式幾何造型,高低錯落,富有層次感。水流從擺放茶壺的較高位置,流向擺放茶杯的較低位置,再經隱藏式出水口排出。石材以電腦數控(CNC)加工並輔以人手雕琢而成,表面經過打磨拋光處理。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鐵獎

The Grand 茶盤是 A' Design Award 鐵獎得主，這是授予滿足人們對設計精良的創作所期待的專業與工業要求的優良設計的聲望認可。鐵獎得主展現出其創作者的高超技藝、高度專業化、專家級的理解力和創造能力。預計The Grand 茶盤將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的創作，既實用又創新。這件贏得 A' Design Award 鐵獎的設計整合了行業最佳實踐，並擁有與專業知識和才華相結合的稱職技術特性。The Grand 茶盤因其嚴謹而受到尊重，旨在提供有助於讓世界變得更美好的生活品質改善。

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.