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A striking achromatic dialogue unfolds in Haonan Zhang's Liyue New Furniture, where two identical chair forms engage in chromatic counterpoint through their presentation in titanium white and carbon…

Liyue New Furniture by Haonan Zhang and Bo Xu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Silver A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.


SilverFurniture· 2023

Liyue New Furniture

by Haonan Zhang and Bo Xu

Client: Nanchang Hangkong University

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category

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The Design

About Liyue New Furniture

Liyue is an armchair that combines Chinese furniture traditions with a Bauhaus-inspired form. The design is drawn from ancient Chinese ritual and music culture and reflects its sense of order and rhythm. The structure of traditional wooden seats is retained, while modern materials allow the chair to fit into contemporary interiors. Recyclable polypropylene and polyamide parts are shaped by computer-controlled machining. The firm curved backrest supports the body and suits people of different sizes. The chair measures 550 by 450 by 750 mm.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

Liyue New Furniture is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Liyue New Furniture is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Liyue New Furniture is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

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Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
The formation background of Chinese "LIYUE" is based on the harmony between heaven and earth, the spirit of "music" and the natural order of heaven and earth. "Harmony" (the spirit of Music), so everything can be incarnated. Designers grab the beauty of rules and rhythms in the "etiquette and music culture" to create this chair that combines Chinese and Western cultures, and continue the etiquette and music culture developed with human civilization in an innovative form.
Dimensions & Packaging
Product size: 550 mm x 450 mm x 750 mm
Tags
Bauhaus, Furniture, Chinese Style, Jane, Product, Man-Machine, Combination of Chinese and Western
Production Technology
Liyue adopts more modern production materials, which not only retains the structure of traditional wooden seats, but also facilitates the integration of products into modern interior decoration without being abrupt.
The distance from the stool face of the chair to the ground and the whole height form a ratio of 9:37. At the same time, the distance from the dummy standard line at the waist to the ground and the whole height form an approximate golden ratio of 5:8.
Design Challenge
Good design means as few designs as possible, which is also the consistent design concept of Liyue.
Research
The firm and accurate arc backrest keeps the body against the curve to ensure that the user can get effective support when lying down. The circular arc shape maximizes the user's reclining space, enables the chair to adapt to people of different body types, and ensures that every user can get the best care.
Inspiration
This is a Chinese armchair with Bauhaus style. It gives new life to Chinese furniture with the main tone of ancient Chinese "LIYUE" culture and the simple modern style.
Project Duration
The project was launched in Nanchang, China in December 2021 and completed in Nanchang, China in February 2022.
Operation Flow
Polypropylene environmental protection plastic material is processed by CNC machining center, which can achieve 99.9% recycling rate. Some ingredients are American DuPont PA materials, which are non-toxic, odorless, 100% recyclable and conform to the concept of sustainable development.
It is the minimalism that Liyue pursues by simplifying parts and components and maximizing the ease of use of products to achieve beautiful and durable results.
Team Members
Haonan Zhang
Bo Xu
Image Credits
Designer: Haonan Zhang, water delivery equipment, 2022

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