The Basalt
The Basalt Modular Recycling Bin by Teming Kang is a winner of the 2025 Iron A' Design Award in Furniture Design.
The Basalt is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations.
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The modular recycling system translates basalt's natural columnar formations into units for public waste management. Magnetic connectors enable tool free reconfiguration across transit hubs, corporate spaces, and urban environments, eliminating visible fasteners while maintaining structural integrity. Rotating lids with standardized pictograms clarify disposal categories across language barriers. The modular architecture permits horizontal expansion to accommodate spatial constraints, with individual component replacement capabilities minimizing maintenance disruptions.
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The Basalt by Teming Kang
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Modular Recycling Bin
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Furniture Design Award Winner in 2025.
Iron Winner
The Basalt Modular Recycling Bin
The Basalt is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. The Basalt is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. The Basalt is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Winner Designer
Teming Kang
Teming Kang is a product and furniture designer who graduated with a master's degree in Integrated Product Design from Politecnico di Milano. His graduation project was selected for the Triennale di Milano exhibition, which is a significant showcase in the global industrial design field. As a pragmatic designer, he insists on starting from real usage scenarios when doing design. At present, he is constantly exploring how to use a minimalist design language to create practical and durable daily items.
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Oshujian
Guangdong Oshujian Furniture Co., Ltd. was founded in 2000. It is a modern enterprise that integrates design and development, production, installation and commissioning, and pre-sale and after-sale services. Its core business specializes in airport furniture and supporting products, including airport seating, multifunctional counters, special chairs, charging bars, isolation belts, public trash bins, luggage trolleys, leisure sofas, public information signage, commercial advertising light boxes, office furniture, and other related products. The sales network covers the entire country, and its export network spans the globe. The company adheres to the business philosophy of "Integrity and diligence, innovation and efficiency, mutual prosperity and symbiosis," creating personalized and stylish airport spaces for its clients.
Winner Brand
Oshujan
Guangdong Oshujian Furniture Co., Ltd. was founded in 2000. It is a modern enterprise that integrates design and development, production, installation and commissioning, and pre-sale and after-sale services. Its core business specializes in airport furnit
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