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Taiwan Imagery Chair by Yi-Ju Tseng

Taiwan Imagery Chair by Yi-Ju Tseng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.


IronFurniture· 2023

Taiwan Imagery Chair

by Yi-Ju Tseng

Client: Tatung University

A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category

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The Design

About Taiwan Imagery Chair

Taiwan Imagery is a chair inspired by traditional Taiwanese culture. The design combines the KA-TSI bag, a woven bag commonly used in Taiwan, with the Tai-Shi Chair, a classical Chinese wooden armchair used in early Taiwanese homes. Bulrush and aluminum are the main materials. The chair measures 500 by 980 by 710 millimeters. The back, the cushion and the legs form three separate parts joined with screws, so transport is compact and manufacturing is simpler. A mold controls the curved shapes and reduces production errors.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award

Taiwan Imagery Chair is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Taiwan Imagery Chair is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Taiwan Imagery Chair is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The KA-TSI bag, which is often used by Taiwanese, and the Tai-Shi Chair from the early days of the family were used for the fusion.
Dimensions & Packaging
500mm x 980mm x 710mm
Tags
Culture,Traditional,KA-TSI bag,Tai-Shi Chair
Production Technology
bulrush (phôo tsháu)/Aluminum
Design Challenge
The special curvature makes it easy to produce errors, so after many experiments we chose to use a mold to control its shape.
Research
The earliest KA-TSI bags were knitted with bulrush (phôo tsháu).
KA-TSI Chair is taken from Tai-Shi Chair, the Chinese wooden fauteuil. Named after the official title, the Tai-Shi Chair is a classical Chinese furniture used by the Taiwanese earlier.
Inspiration
We hope to bring the traditional culture of Taiwan into this design, so that the tradition can be reproduced by design.
Project Duration
The project starts in Turin in October 2022 and ends in Taiwan in December 2022.
Operation Flow
The whole chair is divided into three parts, the back, cushion and legs, and assembled with screws, so that it will not take up space when transporting and can be more easily processed and manufactured.

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