Hong Kong, China
CAMELOT Sofa with Circular Design Concept, to create a design that harmonizes with the aesthetic standards of both a medieval castle and modern households, it offers a soft, cozy, and comfortable sitting experience for users. This design aims to promote knowledge and technology to support sustainable development efforts, enabling and gathering the needed resources for collaboration across sectors and our stakeholders.
CAMELOT Sofa won a 2025 Green Good Design Award from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design, and Urban Studies.
It also highlights the need for high-quality, timely, and reliable data to track progress and shape manufacturing decisions, to improve policy coherence for sustainable development and encourage multi-stakeholder partnerships that utilize expertise and resources.
The concept of the CAMELOT Sofa draws inspiration from the Medieval Age. Designer Ron Leung envisioned how seating furniture from a medieval castle could be reimagined for modern households. With the collaboration of Mr. Kelvin Ng, the Principal Designer of Giormani—the industrial engineer of the Camelot Sofa, they created a timeless design that not only fulfills the original conceptual vision but also addresses the scientific, ecological needs and sustainability aspect of today’s society.
To create a design that harmonizes with the aesthetic standards of both a medieval castle and modern households, the CAMELOT Sofa adopts a main structural framework crafted from solid wood planks, complemented by black steel supporting feet in a basic, minimal, and timeless form.
The armrests, composed of solid wood boards and black steel, evoke the rugged iron elements commonly used during the Medieval Age, providing sturdy support to the solid wood chassis. Cushions placed on the wooden framework offer a soft, cozy, and comfortable sitting experience for users.
Besides the Medieval Age solid-wood concept and aesthetic appeal, CAMELOT B is also a design project that creates a sofa model with circular design elements. Circular design is an approach that aims to create products and systems that are regenerative and restorative by design. It focuses on minimizing waste and making the most of resources throughout the lifecycle of a product. It also ensures that products can be easily recycled or composted at the end of their lives, contributing to a closed-loop (circular) system.
Here are some key elements found in CAMELOT B that correspond to the circular design with SDG12, SDG13 and SDG17. – SDG12 Responsible Consumption &
Production – SDG13 Climate Action A. Materials Used are Either Renewable, Recycled or Recyclable Materials B. Separability and Repairability C. All Paper-Based Packing Materials D. Low-Emission – SDG17 Partnership for the Goals.
This design also aims to promote knowledge and technology to support sustainable development efforts, enabling and gathering the needed resources for collaboration across sectors and our stakeholders. It also highlights the need for high-quality, timely, and reliable data to track progress and shape manufacturing decisions, to improve policy coherence for sustainable development and encourage multi-stakeholder partnerships that utilize expertise and resources.
Designers: Ron Leung and Kelvin Ng, L.I.M. Design Work Ltd., and Arredamenti Company Limited – GIORMANI
Manufacturer: Arredamenti Company Limited – GIORMANI
