2025 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Gold Winner

Journey to the West Culture Billiard Table

Entrant Company

demi industrial design co.,ltd

Category

Product Design - Sports Equipments

Client's Name

Country / Region

China

This is a Chinese-style eight-ball billiard table. The six panel surfaces between the table legs around the table are painted with meticulous brushwork, featuring six themes like "Powerful Bull Demon King", "Fire at Guanyin Temple", "Evening Drum at Little Western Heaven", "Battle with Hundred-Eyed Monster", "Wind Rising in the Golden Kingdom", and "Passing by the Kingdom of Women", highlighting the Journey to the West culture.

The six legs are respectively carved with six sculptures: Double-Bodied Pig "Body of Sorrow", Chongming Bird "Joy at the Sight", Ten-Tailed Goldfish "Love at the Smell", Xun (a musical instrument) "Anger at the Sound", Lotus Seed "Thought at the Taste", and Golden Hoop "Desire at the Will". The leg columns are supported by six "Ruyi Jingu Bang" (Monkey King's magic cudgel).

The six inserts around the tabletop are inlaid with mother-of-pearl, a technique often used in Southeast Asian royal furniture. The abalone shell patches are joined to present a "golden ratio" in lines, visually showing the aesthetic beauty of mother-of-pearl from different angles. All the relief sculptures are made of fiberglass resin and sprayed with a two-color paint process. First, a golden base coat is sprayed, followed by an "emerald finish paint". Finally, an "oxidized water" is used to wipe the edges of the reliefs to achieve a gold-traced effect, saving labor and time costs.

The main body is made of 30mm thick birch wood board, and the tabletop is made of Jiujiang Qingyan stone. Compared with traditional billiard tables, it is endowed with the Journey to the West culture. The color combination and form give a gold-traced visual sense. It is not only a competitive equipment but also an IP image of high-end billiard rooms, showing a noble status. The appearance of this product spreads the Journey to the West culture to the world. It is currently the first billiard product integrating cultural stories and the product.

Credits

Design Director
Mingzhi Cai
Product General Manager
Fengshi Li
Instructor
Yafang Zhang
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