Collection Faceted Furniture by Viktor Palnychenko is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
BronzeFurniture· 2024
Collection Faceted Furniture
Client: Palnychenko-Design.at
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About Collection Faceted Furniture
The story of Faceted began a year ago in Tirol, the heart of Austrian Alps. Unique landscape, fresh air, divine forests, authentic architecture and woodcraft based on traditions became the powerful source of inspiration for Palnychenko-design studio. Faceted is designed to explicit the unique experience of Tirol, where nature and people coexist and complement each other, using natural resources, cherishing traditions and taking care of the environment. Palnychenko-design studio takes a look at the traditional local wood from a modern angel in order to bring it out in a fresh design.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Collection Faceted Furniture 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. Collection Faceted Furniture 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. Collection Faceted Furniture splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to traditional Tirolean spruce wood in Collection Faceted Furniture beautifully merges heritage with contemporary design - could you elaborate on how your experience in the Austrian Alps shaped your creative vision for this collection?
It is hard to be an outsider when you are in Tyrol. Wherever you look, there are breathtaking views: towering mountains with snow-capped peaks and green slopes, valleys with rushing rivers, or small, cosy villages where old wooden farmhouses coexist with modern glass, concrete and wood architectural forms. The medieval university building is successfully intertwined with the architectural modernity of glass and concrete. An average small polyclinic in the city district impresses with its modern interiors and high-quality designer furniture. Everywhere - where you throw your glance, you can feel the love and inspiration of the craftsmen: architect, designer, carpenter, builder. All these amazing combinations of the past and the present became the inspiration and impetus for the creation of our own Collection Faceted Furniture.
The faceted elements in Collection Faceted Furniture create a striking visual rhythm while showcasing the wood's natural texture - what inspired this specific geometric approach, and how does it reflect the relationship between nature and craftsmanship in Tirol?
Using of simple, massive details made it possible to demonstrate the unique texture of alpine spruce in volume, and the combination of details gave the product the desired look, a play of shadows and shades of the material, which was successfully emphasised by Tyrolean carpenters.
Collection Faceted Furniture demonstrates remarkable efficiency by using identical 44mm x 44mm cants across all pieces - how did this standardization challenge influence your design process, and what unexpected creative opportunities emerged from this constraint?
The use of identical 44mmX44mm cants across the pieces made it possible to produce the Collection Faceted Furniture in small workshops with a minimum set of tools, and various combinations of the details allowed us to expand the Collection with new products and minimise waste and costs.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Faceted are made of identical spruce cants what makes this collection unique. Solid wooden details provide the necessary
stability on the one hand, and please eye, urging you to touch and feel them, on the other hand. The facets elegantly expose the exceptional texture of the wood. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 1. Chair 440mm x 400mm x SH450mm x 800mm 2. Bar chair 440mm x 400mm x SH650mm x 950mm 3. Bench 900mm x 350mm x SH450mm 4.Stool 350mm x 350mm x SH450mm
5. Bar stool 350mm x 350mm x SH650mm - Tags
- Furniture, design studio, chair collection, natural wood massive
- Production Technology
- All the products are made from identical 44mmx44mm cants. The production can be realised in small woodcraft workshops, does not involve complicated manufacturing operations and is therefore low-energy consuming.
- Design Challenge
- Spruce has long history and culture of woodcraft in Tirol. It represents history and beauty of harmonic lifestyle with nature. Unique features of spruce wood allow creating
volumetric details with relatively low weight to achieve the required stability and durability. The process integrates traditional methods, eco-friendly technologies, skills and
experience of local masters to bring out spruce wood in modern design. - Research
- Palnychenko-design studio is based in Tirol, Austria. The town of Innsbruck is located inthe heart of Austrian Alps. Originally this mountainous region with dense forests is
famous for woodcraft. Brand came about with an ambition to combine traditional approach, optimised production, local natural materials and contemporary design in elegant furniture products. - Inspiration
- Collection Faceted is designed to explicit the unique experience of Tirol, where nature and people coexist and complement each other, using natural resources, developing
traditions and taking care of the environment. We decided to look at the traditional local wood from a modern angel in order to bring it out in a fresh design. - Project Duration
- The project started in October 2023 in Innsbruck, Austria, and finished in February 2024. The Faceted has not been exhibited yet.
- Operation Flow
- Faceted chair collection is born in the region where people and nature beneficially coexist and interact. The Faceted are made from traditional Tirolean spruce wood, which is the most popular and at the same time quickly renewed material.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Peter Mayr, Drehwerk OG, 2024
Image#2: Photographer Peter Mayr, Drehwerk OG, 2024
Image #3: Photographer Peter Mayr, Drehwerk OG, 2024
Image #4: Photographer Peter Mayr, Drehwerk OG, 2024
Image #5: Photographer Peter Mayr, Drehwerk OG, 2024
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