At the Furniture China (China International Furniture Fair), September 10 to 14 in Shanghai, visitors are impressed by the creative designs presented by the exhibitors from China, USA, France, Germany, Belgium, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia and other countries.

 

In recent years, the organizers of the fair have been making a lot of effort to encourage the original design furniture, and rewards were issued to those excellent products. Since 2012, a hall called Design of Designers was specially opened to display designers’ furniture series.

 

In 2014, Furniture China cooperated with the Red Dot Design Reward originated in Germany and renamed the furniture design reward as Golden Dot Design Reward.  Mr Peter Zec, the president of Red Dot Design Reward showed up on the opening day of the fair and unveiled the winners list of the Golden Dot Design Reward.

 

Simple and cozy style furniture with the oriental beauty harvested the most applause and rewards.

 

Song Zhong, the chief designer of Wanwu, is an architect who refuses to use complicated carving and fancy luxury fabrics but choose the classical colors, simplified architectural lines and figures to express austere lifestyle.

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Another Golden Dot winner, Life First (Xian Sheng Huo) produced by Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, adds some affinity to the oriental furniture.  The chief designer Hao Wen wishes to create a kind of peaceful just fit atmosphere combined with traditional accents and contemporary spirits supported by the modern crafts.

 

Ping Ze

Xuanming Dianju is a rosewood furniture manufacturer trying to switch the serious and heavy traditional Chinese furniture into the present lifestyle. What they did is to forget the original shape and reconstruct it with new ideas.

 

The Ping Ze series by Xuanming Dianju won the Golden Dot this year.

HC28 is one of China’s pioneer designer’s furniture brands which has started international co-work. This year HC28 unveiled a number of new designs with cooperative designers. Teatro sitting room series, designed by Italian architect Luca Scacchetti, has a simple and bright figure. The sofa has lower seat and wider armrest while the square coffee table has extra larger surface which is broad and open. Every single item of Teatro seems saying home is paradise.

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Maxmarko

Maxmarko is the brand of furniture designer Darui Cheng which has a lot of fans. Back to the origin is the essence of its new solid wood series this year.

 

 

Moreless furniture, by designer Zhengguang Hou, started to share the warmth of solid wood and the comfort of moderate shape by opening stores nation widely.

Relaxed but dignified, ably with some oriental accents, DomoNature furniture has its own special temperament. The designer Yanan Lai keeps on gathering ideas from the architecture and interior design work and apply those ideas to the home products.

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Full moon lamp, ink bamboo clock and crescent moon lamp are some unexpected design brought by Guodong Huang and Hui Zhou. Their application of Chinese elements to the ordinary daily necessities quite impressed the audience.

 

The design logic of U+ furniture is to melt the user and the furniture together, and to make them interactive by the natural and vivid floor displaying with themes such as Lingering a while, Sitting timelessly, Coming into the dream and Pondering ever.

Kuka Home

Based on the high quality manufacturing, the leading upholstery Kuka Home becomes more bolder in colors and more energetic in creating the space this year.

This L-shape sofa from Furton is both functional and beautiful.