GanDan Bench by ChenYu, ShinChi, BoCheng and JieYi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
BronzeFurniture· 2021
GanDan Bench
by ChenYu, ShinChi, BoCheng and JieYi
Client: Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Deparment
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About GanDan Bench
This is a handcrafted bench inspired by the nature of silkworm spinning and cocooning, and with reference to the traditional craftsmanship of Aomori Prefecture Japan, with which take shaped by enlacing the golden teak wood veneer through continuous wrapped in circles and layers, showing the beauty of veneer gradation, to form a perfect streamlining shape of bench. Looks hard as if wooden bench but is soft sitting feel instead. Without any waste or scrap when it was made which is relatively environmentally friendly.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
GanDan Bench is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. GanDan Bench is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. GanDan Bench splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Most of the wooden furniture is mainly made of solid wood, which can only show a soft feeling in the modeling lines, but the entity is hard, and will produce a lot of waste during the production process. GanDan is a handcrafted bench, using veneer as the main expression, inspired by silkworm spinning and cocooning and by enlacing method to windup the shape of a bench, it produces a gradual beauty through continuous winding. It looks hard like the wooden bench but soft elasticity feel when sitting on. Without any waste or scrap when it was made which is relatively environmentally friendly.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Material: Golden Teak Veneer
Size: Length900mm x Width300mm x Height450mm - Tags
- Bench, HandCraft, Golden Teak, Veneer, Enlace, Bunaco, Cocooning
- Production Technology
- Material: golden teak wood veneer, wood, foam.
Production technology: CNC milling, lathe, foam Wire cutting
Handcraft Technique: Bunaco wrapping and enlacing veneer ribbon, manual polish. - Design Challenge
- BUNACO's traditional craftsmanship mainly uses beech wood as the main material, and we have also tried to use sharba wood (that is, plane wood), which is thicker, easy to break, and entangled very hard. The change of shape, how to wind the veneer symmetrically and regularly bothered us. We found the golden teak veneer by chance and found that the gloss and softness of it were the most appropriate.
- Research
- Taiwan’s woodworking craftsmanship has a long history. In recent years, with the advancement of the technology industry, most of the demand for wooden furniture on the market has been produced in large quantities by industrial machine processing methods. Handmade furniture is gradually being replaced, and the value of hand-made woodworking crafts has gradually been lost. The masses ignore. Taking BUNACO as the research theme, I hope that wooden furniture can be presented in the most gentle way, and find this traditional craft technique originated from Aomori Prefecture, Japan.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the silkworm spinning and cocooning, with reference to the traditional craftsmanship of Aomori Prefecture, Japan, take shape by enlacing the golden teak wood veneer. Continuous wrapped in circles and layers, showing the beauty of veneer gradation.
- Project Duration
- The project started in August 2020 in Taiwan , completed in February 2021, first debut in March and will exhibit in Young Designers’ Exhibition in World Trade Center, May 2021.
- Operation Flow
- Taking shape of the bench by wrapping and enlacing wood veneer in Bunaco style, with foam inside the cocoon sphere, it looks hard like the wooden bench but soft elasticity when sitting. Since the production procedure is wrapping and enlacing with wood veneer, no waste or scrap of wood produced.
- Team Members
- Instructor:ChungSheng Chen
Designer:ChenYu Shih
Designer:ShinChi Yang
Designer:BoCheng Guo
Designer:JieYi Chen
Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Dept. - Image Credits
- Photo Credit:
ChenYu Shih
ShinChi Yang
BoCheng Guo
JieYi Chen
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