Cloud Chair by Shota Urasaki is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Golden A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
GoldFurniture· 2020
Cloud Chair
Client: Okinawa Products
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About Cloud Chair
Cloud is a chair inspired by a rain shower seen over the coast of Okinawa Island in Japan. The seating surface is made by piercing polyester fiber into polyurethane foam with a needle, which creates a soft cloud-like appearance. A high seat gives the seated person a floating sensation. Mirror-like stainless steel legs and a pedestal are formed from thin round bars that express falling rain. The number, length and diameter of the bars were carefully determined. Cloud is handmade from stainless steel, polyester fiber, wood and polyurethane foam.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
Cloud Chair is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Cloud Chair is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Cloud Chair creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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Nature-Inspired Custom Furniture Design
We create poetic furniture pieces inspired by the natural beauty of Okinawa and Japan. Our emotional design approach transforms organic forms into functional art that enriches living spaces. With expertise from Yamaha Corporation and recognition at international design exhibitions, we bring your vision to life through handcrafted excellence.
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- Unique Properties
- This is a cloud-like chair that is raining.
The seating surface enables a cloud-like expression by piercing polyester fiber into the polyurethane foam with a needle.
A high seat gives the seated person a floating.
In addition, the mirror-like stainless steel legs and pedestal made it possible to express the rain. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 1000 mm x Depth 900 mm x Height 600 mm
- Tags
- nature, chair, cloud, okinawa, japan, organic
- Production Technology
- Materials: Stainless steel, Polyester fiber, Wood, Polyurethane foam
Production processes of the product: Handmade - Design Challenge
- In addition, the number, length, and diameter of stainless steel round bars that express rain were carefully determined.
- Research
- I feel like the products in the world are now uniform.
Different regions have their own culture and nature.
Among them, I paid attention to nature.
I think of naturally inspired designs.
After that, repeat the verification of the material and structure.
I will announce the created design to the world and aim for commercialization.
I believe that doing so will enrich the uniform world. - Inspiration
- The sky is connected everywhere in the world.
Many people have seen clouds.
A design inspired by nature will resonate with various people.
I live on Okinawa Island south of Japan.
One day, I saw a moving cloud while it rained on the coast.
The idea of this chair came up from the scenery at that time. - Project Duration
- The project started in April 2019 and ended in October 2019.
- Operation Flow
- I think there are many people who have imagined when they were children that they could sit on clouds.
I realized that imagination.
Poetic products enrich the emotions of users.
In addition, this product makes the surrounding space visually enjoyable. - Image Credits
- [ Image #1: Shota Urasaki, Cloud, 2019. ][ Image #2: Shota Urasaki, Cloud, 2019. ][ Image #3: Shota Urasaki, Cloud, 2019. ][ Image #4: Shota Urasaki, Cloud, 2019. ][ Image #5: Shota Urasaki, Cloud, 2019. ]
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