Wall O Wall Seat by Gurtner Gregoire is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
BronzeFurniture· 2023
Wall O Wall Seat
Client: Espaces Sarl
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About Wall O Wall Seat
Wall-O is a smart and elegant wall capsule. At home, in the office or in a waiting room, it serves as a kind cocoon which protects you from noise and prying eyes. Thanks to its recycled PET envelope and its eco-friendly textile interior of the highest quality, Wall-O is environmentally friendly. Its radical and minimalist lines are studied with the aim to offer the ideal space to feel comfortably settled and to be able to free one's mind and feel safe.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Wall O Wall Seat 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. Wall O Wall Seat 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. Wall O Wall Seat splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
I wanted to create a relaxation area, a wall cocoon for small moments of detachment.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
I have always sought sobriety in this object. An aggressive, angular or loaded design, does not allow you to relax.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I want to make it evolve, so that it can respond to different atmospheres. But its basic concept must be preserved.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Wall-O offers itself as an intelligent and elegant wall capsule.
At home, in the office or in a waiting room, it serves as a cocoon that protects you from noise and prying eyes. Thanks to its recycled PET casing and the highest quality ecological textile interior, Wall-O is environmentally friendly. Its radical and minimalist lines are studied with the aim of offering the ideal space to feel comfortable and to be able to free your mind and feel safe. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 760 mm x 500 mm x 1720 mm
- Tags
- Wall-O, seat, capsule, wall seat, wall capsule
- Inspiration
- The first idea was to develop a seat to relax on a large unoccupied wall of a house. After radicalizing its envelope, the shape of the capsule became evident. The challenge was to fix the seat to the wall, without visible fixing, while keeping it light and sober, as if to encourage curiosity about an unusual seat.
- Project Duration
- project started in November 2020 in Grandvillard (CH). The first prototype left the workshops in February 2022 and the final version in June 2022. It received an award at the European Product Design Awards in August 2022
- Operation Flow
- Wall-O simply attaches to the wall, in your living room or in a waiting room. Its soft acoustic envelope in PET felt invites you to immerse yourself in it as in a benevolent cocoon. The absorbing effect of ambient sound immediately gives you serenity and undressed comfort.
- Team Members
- Grégoire Gurnter
Développement technique : Girsberger Custom Furniture - Image Credits
- Frédéric Grangier
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