Moon Chair Self Assembled Seating by Le Xu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
BronzeFurniture· 2024
Moon Chair Self Assembled Seating
by Le Xu
Client: Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About Moon Chair Self Assembled Seating
Moon Chair is a self-assembly chair made of solid wood. The design uses traditional mortise and tenon joinery together with dovetail locks. No metal connectors are included, so Moon Chair can be put together and taken apart by hand in two or three steps. The chair is made from American walnut and shaped by wood cutting. The dimensions are 390 by 340 by 680 millimeters. The flat packing format lowers transport costs and suits online sales. The chair is intended for young people with small homes who move often.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Moon Chair Self Assembled Seating 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. Moon Chair Self Assembled Seating 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. Moon Chair Self Assembled Seating 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
- The Moon Chair is made of solid wood, simple and stylish, utilizing mortise and tenon joinery for a strong visual impact. It is a high degree of integration of aesthetics and structure, the structure of the clever use of mortise and tenon joints and dovetail locks, the product itself does not have any connectors, can be disassembled and assembled with bare hands. The flat design can greatly reduce the transportation cost, which is very suitable for selling on the Internet.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 390 x 340 x 680 (mm)
- Tags
- Moon, chair
- Production Technology
- Production technology: wood cutting; material: American walnut.
- Design Challenge
- The most challenging part is the structural design. Based on the connection and self-locking function of mortise and tenon structure, a new mortise and tenon structure was innovatively designed to realize the unarmed disassembly function and firmness of the Moon Chair. Its structural form is presented in a perfect blend with modern aesthetics!
- Research
- Nowadays, the young generation has lower income, small living space, likes online shopping, moves frequently and pursues a certain quality of life. They need flexible, space-saving, easy-to-use, simple and stylish furniture to improve their quality of life. Moon Chair skillfully uses traditional mortise and tenon structure, the whole product has no metal connectors, and can be assembled and disassembled with bare hands, and the beauty of its structure well demonstrates the wisdom of the predecessors. The flat design greatly reduces transportation costs and is ideal for online sales.
- Inspiration
- The current young generation of people with low income, narrow living space, like online shopping, often moving, the pursuit of a certain quality of life. We hope to design a new mortise and tenon structure based on the traditional mortise and tenon structure, combined with the toughness of wood materials, to realize a high degree of integration of the disassembling function, firmness and aesthetics of the chair!
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2018 in Hangzhou and finished in August 2020 in Hangzhou.
- Operation Flow
- Open the product package, and assemble the product in 2-3 steps; the operation is very convenient, you can experience the fun of assembly, and the completed product is solid and durable.
- Team Members
- Xu Le
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