Silver Furniture Design · 2025
Selena Multifunctional Chair
by Aciole Felix
- A' Design Award 2025 Silver Winner in Furniture Design
- Awarded April 15, 2025
- CLIENT: Morada Decor
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 42,576
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About Selena Multifunctional Chair
Selena is a chair made of Jequitiba wood and natural straw. The frame is shaped by detailed CNC machining, which creates smooth and continuous surfaces without visible joints. Artisanal work completes the assembly and the fixing of the straw. The straw runs from the backrest to the seat, forming a continuous element that adds visual lightness to a monolithic volume. A water-based finish is used to reduce environmental impact. Selena combines a minimalist appearance with a robust structure intended to last for generations.
MORADA DECOR's Selena Multifunctional Chair emerges from a rich heritage of furniture design that honors the dialogue between natural materials and refined craftsmanship, positioning itself within traditions that span from colonial-era tropical furniture making to the material experimentation of mid-twentieth century modernism. The piece demonstrates sophisticated understanding of how solid timber framing can embrace and celebrate woven natural fibers, creating visual and physical transparency that lightens what might otherwise read as substantial mass. The backrest's gentle backward inclination and the subtle splay of the tapered legs suggest careful consideration of ergonomic principles, while the proportional relationships between structural members indicate mathematical precision in the service of visual harmony. The rattan caning, executed in the traditional hexagonal pattern sometimes called French caning, introduces both practical ventilation and aesthetic texture, its organic irregularities providing humanizing counterpoint to the geometric discipline of the wooden frame. Material selection appears deliberate: the warm-toned hardwood, possibly walnut or a comparable species, offers both structural integrity and visual warmth, while its satin finish preserves tactile connection to natural wood grain without excessive glossiness. The chromatic restraint, limited to natural material colors without applied pigmentation, speaks to contemporary sensibilities valuing authenticity and sustainability. The chair's silhouette, viewed from this three-quarter angle, reveals how compound curves and straight lines negotiate harmoniously, creating visual interest from every vantage point. This piece invites consideration of how furniture serves not merely functional requirements but participates in the aesthetic and emotional atmosphere of interior spaces, asking viewers to contemplate their own relationships with the objects that populate daily life.
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- Unique Properties
- Selena was designed with the aim of having a light and minimalist look. It represents a little of what we tried to convey with these innovative surfaces and transitions, resulting in the smooth shapes of a resistant and durable chair. The continuity of the straw produces a minimalist effect, and the transparency of this material generates lightness in a monolithic volume. The chair is a tactile object, to understand its complexity it is necessary to feel each transition, fit and surface.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 0.560 mm
Depth 0.600 mm
Height 0.840 mm - Tags
- minimalist design, cnc machining, jequitiba wood, portuguese straw, form and function, contemporary design, sustainable design
- Production Technology
- A project focused on detailed cnc programming. Added to artisanal processes that require a lot of experience and care, in the use of organic materials, such as Jequitibá wood, and natural straw.
It highlights the resistance created in the machining processes, generating precision in assembly. And its water-based finish guarantees lower environmental impact. This makes the product durable and sustainable, thinking about pieces that will be used for generations. - Design Challenge
- Search for fluid surfaces, without encounters, without visible obstacles, the process of fixing the natural straw, to form the smooth piece, search for exclusive tools and solutions with partners, was a great and time-consuming challenge, but delivered an exceptional result. Furthermore, it increased our creative repertoire.
The challenge was to make an aesthetically minimalist chair, which at the same time was structurally robust, and with this appearance was ergonomically attractive. - Project Duration
- The project began in Lagoa Vermelha, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil on April 2, 2023 and ended in March 2024.
- Operation Flow
- The natural straw in the seat initially creates hesitation, and the feeling when sitting is one of surprise, comfort and security.
Designed with an organic shape and fluid lines, at the same time complex and intriguing, it becomes a product that also appeals to the sense of touch, going beyond ergonomics and visuals, interacting with human curiosity.
Visually light in a product with materials as noble and known for their robustness as wood, this product conveys softness and elegance. - Research
- The research into the design of the brief showed us that the natural puts us in a very positive way, in tune with our ancestry, awakening intrinsic sensations that welcome us, influencing human well-being, which is why the final objective of the project was to deliver a contemporary product , made with natural materials and organic shapes.
There was also a great effort in researching technology and tools that could execute according to the project. - Inspiration
- In-depth CNC machining techniques were essential to define the shape of the chair, this was exploited to the maximum.
The search for fluid and smooth surfaces, characteristics that make the piece so interesting, and that hide the formal complexity, with different visual elements.
Also the natural straw, starting at the back, moving towards the seat, generates a continuous element of visual lightness and the impression that the chair does not have many stops, making the product even more fluid. - Image Credits
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