Ravaq Table by Ali Sharifi Omid is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
IronFurniture· 2020
Ravaq Table
Client: HAF design and construction department
A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #103075The Design
About Ravaq Table
Ravaq aims to renew the grandeur those moqarnas ceilings covered with mirrors in a smaller scale. These forms are rooted in a 1000 year tradition and their modern reconstruction ties the ancient with the contemporary. Ravaq reflects the surrounding colors from different angles to match the place that it goes to more beautifully. The main challenge of ravaq was to create new and innovative forms from a traditional pattern and motif so that once you are faced by the whole pattern, its authenticity takes you back in time while you are still use that with modern furniture.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Ravaq Table 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. Ravaq Table 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. Ravaq Table is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
1.The concept of ravaq table is driven from a geometric form which has played a significant role in the ancient Iranian architecture. This form which is known as “Muqarnas”, in addition to the function of holding the dome of mosques, was basically used to decorate the buildings, but later its decorative and ornamental aspect prevailed and now it is established as one of the main elements at the entrance of Iranian mosques.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
2.My main focus in regard to ravaq table is to link a modern product with the elements of ancient culture. Since studying at university, most of my classmates and I had a concern of how to apply and use our cultural elements in the industrial design projects, in the way that we would not be trapped in the imitation of the past. I believe that such a concern resolved itself properly in the concept of Colonnade table.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
3.Under my supervision and with the cooperation of the other members of “Haf design”, this design and its other variations have been manufactured with an excellent quality. Accordingly, it has gone on selling in Iran and has received a warm welcome from its audience. Our plan is expanding the sale to global market.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Ravaq aims to renew the grandeur those moqarnas ceilings covered with mirrors in a smaller scale. These forms are rooted in a 1000 year tradition and their modern reconstruction ties the ancient with the contemporary. Ravaq reflects the surrounding colors from different angles to match the place that it goes to more beautifully.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Hight:464 mm xDiameter: 586
weight:14 kg - Tags
- Geometric design,Parametric design,Side table,Moqarnas,Persian motifs
- Production Technology
- The main idea in producing ravaq was a high quality and perfect production, so we have used CNC cutting a stainless steel and glass sheets to minimize human error. The main materials its production are stainless steel and color glasses.
- Design Challenge
- The main challenge of this project was to create new and innovative forms from a traditional pattern and motif so that once you are faced by the whole pattern, its authenticity takes you back in time while you are still use that with modern furniture.
- Research
- Research on this project began by focusing on Persian architectural, geometrical patterns. Our aim was to use this two dimensional geometry and pattern to create three dimensional masses. Our main aesthetics priority was not to get trapped in repeating old fashioned forms and to create postmodern forms with new material.
- Inspiration
- Moqarnas is one of the mast important elements of Persian architecture. First it was used as columns’ to buttress domes and mosques ceilings. Then however, it became mainly a decorative element of the building these ceilings are usually covered with mosaic-style mirrors in order to maximize light reflection at any angle.
- Project Duration
- I have been researching on Iranian-Islamic geometric designs and patterns in the last year and have been trying to design some furniture
which is inspired by ancient Iranian architectural motifs. This and some other projects that I have done are the results of this endeavour. This project has been mass produced in Iran last December. - Operation Flow
- Ravaq is a special side table which evokes a beautiful volume of architectural in the performance environment. The main mass of the stainless steel is a mirror that interacts with the space itself.
- Patents
- Haf
- Image Credits
- Designer: Ali Sharifi Omid / Illustrator: kaveh Nemati
Sponsored
Explore Beyond Designers.org
Discover products, services and opportunities from our advertising partners.
More to Explore
Related Designs
Explore more award-winning designs from the same category, selected by merit.
