Blooming Leisure Chair by Jingye Wei is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
BronzeFurniture· 2024
Blooming Leisure Chair
by Jingye Wei
Client: Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About Blooming Leisure Chair
Blooming is a leisure chair inspired by flowers in full bloom. The seat and the back take the shape of petals and follow organic, ergonomic lines that support the spine. The armrests open and turn outward, in the manner of a flower. A triangular support under the seat is based on the pedicel and gives stability and load bearing capacity. The chair is made of white copper and formed as a single piece by three-dimensional printing, which reveals the metallic luster of the material. The size is 920 by 680 by 890 millimeters.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Blooming Leisure Chair 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. Blooming Leisure Chair 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. Blooming Leisure Chair splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This leisure chair is based on the natural state of flowers in full bloom. Through observing and understanding the flowers in the natural world, it abstracts the shape of petals， stretching and blooming, and extracts the natural flowing lines of flowers in full bloom, the connection form between pedicel and petal is used for reference in structure, and the material, shape and structure are skillfully designed and carefully treated.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 920 mm x 680 mm x 890 mm, the whole furniture has 3D printing integrated forming, the processing process is simple, easy to operate. Additive manufacturing, saving materials is not easy to waste. High freedom of modeling.
- Tags
- Petal, Organic form, Bionic modeling, 3D printing
- Production Technology
- The whole is made of white copper as raw material and processed by 3D printing technology. The overall strength is good, showing the metallic luster, fully demonstrating the beauty of the material itself, and adding a point to the overall shape.
- Design Challenge
- To realize the organic integration of seat surface, backrest and chair legs, find the most beautiful surface Angle and achieve the coordinated proportion of each part. Achieve the organic unity of furniture shape and structure.
- Research
- The chair is designed with flowers as inspiration, extracting the natural flow and vitality curve of flowers when they are in full bloom, and combining the beautiful form of flowers with ergonomics to form the seat.
- Inspiration
- The chair is inspired by the blooming flowers. The seat and back take the shape of the petals. The shape is organic and ergonomic. The armrest is in the shape of a flower opening and turning outward, while showing the strength and beauty of life, it also satisfies the functionality. The bottom of the seat adopts a triangular supporting structure, which draws on the pedicel and is designed to cleverly connect the seat, ensure seat stability and load-bearing capacity.
- Project Duration
- The design had started in Shenyang in January 2023, completed in Shenyang in June 2023, and displayed in the museum of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang in June in 2023.
- Operation Flow
- The structure of the seat and back helps to support the spine and help people use the seat correctly. Used for rest, reading, decoration and other functions.
- Team Members
- Wei Jingye
Zhou Haoyuan
Zheng Xiaolei
Song Kexin
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