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Warm honey-toned wood dominates Pablo Vidiella's Hone Shelf, an elegantly sculptural storage piece whose organic silhouette commands attention through sweeping curved vertical supports that rise like…

Hone Shelf by Pablo Vidiella is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Silver A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.


SilverFurniture· 2024

Hone Shelf

by Pablo Vidiella

Client: Nama-d Studio

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category

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The Design

About Hone Shelf

Hone shelf is a timeless and magnetic design inspired by natural forms, and arises as a reinterpretation of a traditional shelf through a conceptual alteration of the physical properties of the material. In this way, the solid wood becomes elastic in a conceptual way. By doing so, the vertical supports stretch outwards isolating the horizontal planes, giving movement to the whole piece and promoting load transmission. The aim is to highlight the organic essence of the piece, its living personality and to contrast the strength of its mass with the lightness and subtle contact with the ground.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

Hone Shelf 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. Hone Shelf 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. Hone Shelf is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

Where to Get It

Custom Nature-Inspired Furniture Design

We create bespoke furniture pieces that emulate evolutionary forms found in nature. Our award-winning studio transforms solid wood into flowing, organic shapes through innovative CNC technology and traditional craftsmanship. Each piece is patiently crafted from certified sustainable hardwoods, resulting in magnetic designs that invite touch and interaction.

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Behind the Design

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Unique Properties
Hone shelf is a magnetic and timeless design which arises as a reinterpretation of a conventional shelf through a conceptual transformation of the physical properties of the material. By doing so, the wood becomes conceptually elastic. The vertical supports stretch outwards to isolate the horizontal planes, strengthening the joints, providing and promoting load transmission and thickness optimization, giving fluidity and movement to the piece.
Dimensions & Packaging
Width 1400mm x Depth 480mm x Height 1920mm
Tags
Shelf, wood, furniture, modern, minimalist, luxury, design
Production Technology
Hone Shelf is manufactured and tested using CNC technology and wood craftsmanship. Hone Shelf is patiently crafted from the finest hardwood; hand-selected and sourced from certified, sustainable sources.
Design Challenge
I found specially challenging to achieve an organic, beautiful and eye-catching piece of furniture through its complex manufacturing process. It needs to be magnetic to the viewer. Technically, the great challenge was to model and CNC cut the wooden pieces with such a complex geometry.
Research
When facing Hone Shelf, I had nature and living forms as a reference and inspiration. The creative process consists of trying to emulate this evolutionary natural process through natural materials and give a function to it, in this case a side table. This experimental phase is developed through direct transformation exercises using everyday simple material such as plasticine or paper, and tools such as drawing and 3D software. Once the model is created, a prototype is manufactured and tested using CNC technology and wood craftsmanship.
Inspiration
When facing Hone Shelf, I have nature and living forms as a reference and inspiration. Every curve and surface present in nature has a biological explanation related to a certain function over time, and these evolutionary transformations are my source of inspiration to create Hone Shelf. The creative process consists of trying to emulate this natural process through natural materials and give a function to it, in this case a bookshelf.
Project Duration
The project started in October 2023 and finished in November 2023 in Madrid.
Operation Flow
Hone Shelf 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 pleasure and tranquility. Its attractive shape, together with the warmth of the material, makes the user to come closer, touch it, sit next to it.

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