Hana Chair by Pablo Vidiella is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Golden A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
GoldFurniture· 2022
Hana Chair
Client: HenkaLab
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About Hana Chair
Hana Chair is an elegant piece of furniture inspired by plant nature. Like a flower, Hana blossoms into two petals as a structural and functional solution to the requirements of a chair, forming the backrest, the seat and embracing the body of the user. The material used could only be solid wood, enhancing its curves and natural beauty.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
Hana 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. Hana 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. Hana Chair creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
Where to Get It
Nature-Inspired Custom Furniture Design
We create exceptional furniture pieces inspired by nature's organic forms. Winner of the prestigious Golden A' Design Award, our studio specializes in complex wood geometries using advanced CNC technology and craftsmanship. Each piece evolves into living forms that embrace comfort and beauty.
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Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
Hana Chair is an elegant, daring and cutting edge piece of furniture inspired by plant nature. Like a flower, Hana blossoms into two petals as a structural and functional solution to the requirements of a chair, by embracing both the backrest and the seat. The human eye is used to curved lines and surfaces, they have always been present in nature. Its attractive shape, together with the warmth of the material, makes the user to come closer and interact with it in a natural way.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
When I created Hana Chair, I wanted to create an object that interacts with the observer in a natural way. The human eye is more used to curved lines and surfaces, they have always been present in nature, they surround us. That instinct lingers in our animal subconscious, and the soft, natural forms give us tranquility and pleasure. Its attractive shape, together with the warmth of the material, makes the user to come closer.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I would like to see Sankao in other types of wood, and try to promote the table in specialty design stores internationally.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Hana Chair is an elegant, daring and cutting edge piece of furniture inspired by plant nature. Like a flower, Hana blossoms into two petals as a structural and functional solution to the requirements of a chair, by embracing both the backrest and the seat. The human eye is used to curved lines and surfaces, they have always been present in nature. Its attractive shape, together with the warmth of the material, makes the user to come closer and interact with it in a natural way.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 560mm x Depth 550mm x Height 800mm
Weight 6.5kg - Tags
- furniture, hana, chair, wood, modern, exclussive, henkalab, pablo vidiella
- Production Technology
- The choice of material had to fulfil a fundamental premise: to be a living material, with its own unique DNA and footprints. This material could not be other than solid wood, in this case charcoal ash. It can also be manufactured used different woods, such as iroko or walnut. The planks of solid ash are machined three-dimensionally using a 5 axis CNC milling router (numerical control), following a 3D drawing, equally combines technology and craftsmanship.
- Design Challenge
- Since the project requires a complex wood milling process, I had to deeply explore the necessary cutting requirements to achieve such complex geometries using the smallest possible thicknesses, in order to achieve maximum lightness and fluidity of the piece.
- Research
- The starting point was to solve the main needs of a chair, which are to house the seat and backrest in a comfortable, embracing and natural way. In this way, inspiration arises in leaves and flowers.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by plant nature and living forms, Hana Chair is conceived from geometric simplicity and evolves to become a new complex living being that fulfills both structural and practical chair requirements.
- Project Duration
- This project is completely new and unseen until now. Started and finished in Madrid in March 2022.
- Operation Flow
- Hana Chair interacts with the observer in a natural way. The human eye is more used to curved lines and surfaces, they have always been present in nature, they surround us. That instinct lingers in our animal subconscious, and the soft, natural forms give us tranquility and pleasure. Its attractive shape, together with the warmth of the material, makes the user to come closer, touch it, sit on it.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Pablo Vidiella, 2022.
- Team Members
- Pablo Vidiella
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Creator Pablo Vidiella, 2022, Optional Image #1: Creator Pablo Vidiella, 2022, Optional Image #2: Creator Pablo Vidiella, 2022.
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