10-13 September, 2025
SNIEC, Pudong, Shanghai

GOLDAXE China Household Products Innovation Competition

2024 GOLDAXE China Household Products Innovation Competition

GOLDAXE was initiated by the Design Committee of China National Furniture Association (CNFA) and was first held in 2006, which has a history of 18 years. It is a national industry event jointly created by the Association and national designers, entrepreneurs, and experts, and the previous award-winning works represent the highest level of the industry, and the scale of participation of colleges and universities and enterprises covers the whole country.

In order to solidly promote the home furnishing industry innovation-driven development strategy, accelerate the development of new quality productivity, Gold Axe China Household Products Innovation Competition is newly upgraded, in order to convey the spiritual connotation of Chinese culture and Made in China to the world as its own responsibility, and gradually to the direction of the material, technology, technology, traditions, office, upholstery, equipment and other areas to extend to help the home furnishing industry to achieve long-term development. 2024, CNFA will hold the GOLDAXE Competition (Household Products Innovation Material Innovation) during the 29th Furniture China. The Product Innovation Competition was formerly known as “China Furniture Design Award”, which was co-organized by CNFA and Shanghai IM Sinoexpo International Exhibition Co., Ltd. for 15 years, and was renamed as “China Furniture Product Innovation Award” since 2014. The competition is led by the Design Committee of CNFA to set up a judging committee, with experts from organizations, institutions and enterprises closely related to the development of China’s furniture industry, who select innovative design products with contemporary characteristics with their senior experience and unique vision of development. Over the past twenty-four years, the award has effectively promoted the formation of a design and innovation culture in China’s furniture industry, and has played an important role in promoting the emergence of new design talents and encouraging the innovative development of enterprises. “As a comprehensive award focusing on design, the product innovation award focuses on: appearance design, functional structure design, technology and material innovation and sustainable innovation design four aspects.

Schedule

Application deadline: August 31, 2024
On-site judging and award presentation: September 10-11, 2024

*Awards will be presented on-site at the 29th Furniture China.

Entry Requirements

1. The entry must be an innovative product or program with independent intellectual property rights of participating unit or individual as the Exhibitor of Furniture China, and the entrant owns the core technology of the work; once plagiarism is found, the entry will be disqualified immediately.
2. In addition to the overall space products must include more than three different types of complete sets of home products, other types of products can be a single product, material style is not limited.
3. Annual Innovative Products, Annual Innovative Craft, Annual Innovative Brand must be submitted to participate in the evaluation of the product or process of the patent certificate, quality certification, proof of enterprise qualifications.

Awards

2024 Golden Axe China Home Products Innovation Competition

Categories: Living room furniture, Dining room furniture, Bedroom furniture, Children’s furniture, Outdoor furniture, Study furniture, Intelligent furniture, Office furniture, Home accessories, Overall space products
Awards: One gold award, one silver award and two bronze awards will be presented for each category, as well as the annual innovative product, the annual innovative craft and the annual innovative brand.

Chairman of the Jury

President

Linda Tu

Vice President and Secretary General of China National Furniture Association,
Director of Design Working Committee

Expert Member of the Jury

(in alphabetical order of last name)

Yu Lizhan

Professor, Head of Department of Environmental Art and Design, Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, Director of Furniture Research Institute

Xu Boming

President of Shenzhen Furniture Research and Development Institute, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor


Shen Baohong

Co-founder of U+, Design Director




Zhang Fan

Professor, Head of Furniture Design and Engineering, School of Material Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, PhD supervisor


Chen Yushu

Professor, Nanjing Forestry University




Dai Xiangdong

Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Dean of School of Home and Art Design, Central South Forestry University of Science and Technology, Editor-in-Chief of Furniture and Interior Decoration

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