As one of the most influential design awards in the world, EDIDA is the first design award selected by the professional media. ELLE DECORATION gives around half of the prizes to Chinese designers, who can get an admission ticket to participate in the world-class award selection. This year’s list has been formally issued. Let’s see the prize-winning works in China.

DESIGNER OF THE YEAR
Mr. Shen Baohong

Shen Baohong is a craftsman and a trans-boundary designer, who created the brand U+. Taking “Chinese Gene” as the inspiration source, he has been devoted to original design and production of contemporary furniture in China for many years. Shen Baohong is crazy about the aesthetics in the Song Dynasty. Here is his unique viewpoint of “inheritance”: “inheritance is not the re-extension of the established tradition, but the re-development. Inheritance is a phase. It makes you aware of the past beauty; meanwhile, it urges you to reform it to suit the currently new beauty”.  www.youjialife.com

YOUNG TALENT OF THE YEAR
Benwu Studio

Benwu Studio is the design studio jointly established by the Chinese designers Hongchao Wang (graduate of ECAL) and Peng You (graduate of RCA) in New York in 2012. The team is mainly dedicated to industrial design, scene design and indoor design. The design pays attention to environment and exploration of new techniques and materials. It has cooperated with brands including Hermes, Vacheron constantin, Swarovski, Isabel Marant, Remy Martin, Baccarat, etc. www.benwustudio.com

THE BEST LIGHTING DESIGN
Name: BAI CHANDELIER II
Brand: Parachilna
Designer: Neri & Hu

It is a piece of work combining both traditional culture and modern technique. The inspiration comes from Chinese lanterns; the paper evolves to be the modern blown glass, the line evolves to be the metal wire wrapped by copper and the candle is replaced by LED engine, which is of both profound significance and functionality.  www.parachilna.eu

THE BEST FURNITURE DESIGN
Name: Screen System
Brand: Cappellini
Designer: GamFratesi

It reaches the effects of art sculpture through modularized elements. The great physical balance makes the petal-shaped textile fabrics of different quantities elegantly bloom. The separation system of the beautiful sculpture can not only divide the regions, but also have great functions of sound absorption, which is suitable for public space.  www.cappellini.it

THE BEST SEATING DESIGN
Name: “Large Heaven and Earth” Carbon Fiber Chair
Brand: 「SHANG XIA」
Designer: Ms. Jiang qiong’er

Carbon fiber material is light and hard, proving new possibilities for furniture manufacturing. 「SHANG XIA」re-exhibits the “large heaven and earth” series furniture with carbon fiber materials; it bravely simplifies the detailed features of the traditional Ming-style furniture, makes it thinner, lighter and slimmer to the fullest and creates this concept furniture beyond the daily experience. The carbon fiber chair can bear the pressure of 200 kilograms; however, its own weight is merely 1/5 of the wooden furniture of the equal specifications.  www.shang-xia.com

THE BEST TABLEWARE DESIGN
Name: Voyage en lkat
Brand: Hermès

Combining the balanced and symmetrical Japanese-style design, magnificent Byzantine patterns and the exotic flower patterns popular in French courts in18th-century, in which various cultures are mixed with one another, these works are casually combined with the Oriental and Occidental cultures.  www.hermes.com

THE BEST KITCHEN&ACCESSORIES DESIGN

Name: Open
Brand: Boffi
Designer: Piero Lissoni

Open Kitchen is the ultimate reform of kitchen. From the flexible and light material selection to the functional recombination, it converts the traditionally cumbersome kitchen to the free and movable one.  www.boffi.com

THE BEST BEDDING DESIGN

Name: Lucky Bed
Brand: SUREECO
Designer: Mr. Wu Zuoguang

The light Chinese-style overhead walnut design extending from the foundation bed to the backrest embodying is the structure. The accurate calculated radian is good for stretching the cervical vertebra. The adduction of the stand bar guarantees safety from the perspective of practicability. It is the brand-new reflection of the Chinese style after research.  www.sureeco.com

THE BEST FLOOR COVERING DESIGN

Name: Moooi Carpets
Brand: Moooi
Designer: Marcel Wanders]

The Moooi carpet series have the exquisite patterns comparable to photos. The technique of Moooi carpet comes from the technique of “high-definition digital decorating machine”. The machine of printing carpet is 100 meters long, which can print the carpet with the width up to four meters. It can also accurately print all the existing colors in the world. The 48 kinds of carpets issued by Moooi are designed by the designers from different countries. www.moooi.com

THE BEST FABRIC DESIGN

Name: Cushion in Noise, Cushion in Sirocco
Brand: Kvadrat/Raf Simons
Designer: Raf Simons

Application of soft fabrics is related to fashion field and furniture design field. Among the brand-new soft fabrics series, Simons has tapped the creative potential of diagonal patterns on traditional cloths, such as coarse flannelette, diagonal flannelette and jean. Through cleverly using the yarn of different colors, the designers make the exquisite diagonal patterns show the unique structure of the cloth and also add the sense of layer in the clear contour line.  www.kvadratrafsimons.com

THE BEST WALL COVERING DESIGN

Name: Umbrella
Brand: Bentu
Design Studio: Bentu

“Wall decoration umbrella of bare concrete series” made by construction wastes and concrete materials advocates environmental protection and starts the application of new wall material techniques. The severing technique makes the traditional cement shine brilliantly.  www.bentudesign.com

THE BEST BATH & MATERIALS DESIGN

Name: Cuna
Brand: Agape
Designer: Patricia Urquiola

It adopts tough metal material to wrap the bathtub with soft lines, which is innovative in both material and production process.  www.agapedesign.it

THE BEST OUTDOOR FURNITURE DESIGN

Name: Industry-Garden-Collection
Brand: Seletti
Design Studio: Studio Job

The Studio Job from Antwerp makes brand-new illustration and reform of the cast iron tables and chairs prevailing in the end of 18th century; by adding modern symbols such as butterfly and flower symbolizing garden, gas mask, human skeleton and other modern elements, which is filled with visual shock.  www.seletti.it

*This article was orginal and source from ELLE DECORATION