Anima Armchair by Pietro Luigi Verona is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Silver A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
SilverFurniture· 2025
Anima Armchair
Client: Pietro Luigi Verona
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #164499The Design
About Anima Armchair
The Anima armchair is a notable design that takes its cues from the forms and materials present in nature. By focusing on playful and symmetrical shapes, it seeks to create positive experiences for its users, evoking the uplifting sensations often associated with natural elements. Designed through meticulous observation of Brazil's diverse fauna and flora, the armchair transforms these inspirations into a concrete product. It reflects the striking silhouettes found within Brazil's ecosystems, highlighting both the authenticity of its playful features and the elegance of its organic lines.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Anima Armchair 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. Anima Armchair 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. Anima Armchair is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
Where to Get It
Handcrafted Nature-Inspired Furniture
We create original furniture pieces that bring Brazilian nature's playful beauty into your home. Each handcrafted design captures organic forms from our diverse fauna and flora, transforming natural elegance into joyful, functional art. Our collection celebrates craftsmanship and authenticity.
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Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to translating Brazil's rich biodiversity into the Anima Armchair's organic forms is remarkable - could you walk us through your observation process and how specific elements from Brazilian fauna and flora directly influenced the final design?
Brazil's biodiversity is one of the most extensive in the world. Observing nature here is a gift, the Anima armchair carries in its lines the general characteristics of the biodiversity observed as inspiration while I designed it: The organic, playful, continuous shape, bringing harmony and proportion to all observable points of the Anima armchair.
The Anima Armchair showcases an intriguing blend of handcrafted woodworking and advanced 3D scanning technology - how did this fusion of traditional craftsmanship and modern manufacturing enhance the expression of natural forms in your design?
The combination of hand-drawn and hand-crafted woodworking with the technological aspects of 3D scanning and production is truly a unique combination that allows for interesting shapes to be achieved. The technology used in production allowed me to design the chair without constraints, allowing me to freely explore the natural forms that inspire me: the organic and playful aspects of nature, focusing on the beauty of forms.
The emotional comfort aspect of the Anima Armchair is particularly fascinating - could you elaborate on how you incorporated psychological well-being considerations into the physical design elements?
The psychological comfort aspect comes from the beauty used in the shapes of the Anima armchair, based on the inspiration applied to its design: nature. If we observe the nature around us, we will notice some curious aspects, such as harmony, playful and organic lines, cheerful and elaborate colors and shapes. When we are in nature, we feel good, complete, and because the Anima armchair is inspired by these aspects, it is possible to feel comfortable when observing the lines of the armchair, as well as when using it, sitting and enjoying the moment.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The creative process was entirely manual, from the concept with hand drawings, to its construction and improvement in the wooden piece, the design was improved with 3D scanning technology of the physical prototype, facilitating the manufacturing process on the 5 axis CNC and guaranteeing lines organic and aesthetic that reflect the authenticity of natural forms. The piece offers visual and emotional comfort, bringing the essence of nature to indoor environments.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 880 mm x Depth 900 mm x Height 700 mm
- Tags
- armchair, wood, design, soul, handmade
- Production Technology
- Materials are Tauari Brazilian reforestation Wood. Natural Fabric from Brazil cotton.
the design was improved with 3D scanning technology of the physical prototype, facilitating the manufacturing process on the 5 axis CNC and ensuring organic and aesthetic lines that reflect the authenticity of natural forms. - Design Challenge
- The greatest challenge was understanding the elements that contribute to nature’s beauty and translating them into an armchair design. We immersed ourselves in observation, sketching organic lines, symmetry, and playful forms found in the natural world. Once the design was finalized, the next step was crafting a prototype using natural materials such as wood and cotton fabric. Working freehand, we constructed the wooden armchair's base, ensuring that the intricate, handmade quality from our drawings was preserved in the final product. This process beautifully linked nature’s essence with our craftsmanship.
- Research
- Brazil is home to one of the world's richest biodiversities. The objective of our research was to explore and understand the elements that contribute to the beauty of our native flora and fauna. We employed a hands-on approach, venturing into the field to closely observe various plants and animals. As we explored, we sketched our observations, capturing the intricate details and characteristics that make these living beings remarkable. This immersive method not only enhanced our appreciation of nature but also informed our design concepts, allowing us to translate this beauty into our work.
- Inspiration
- From the shapes and materials of the armchair, the project aims to express the positive experience transmitted in the beauty of nature's playful and symmetrical forms, giving us good feelings, which we experience when we are in contact with natural elements. The Anima armchair was designed based on the observation of aspects present in both Brazilian fauna and flora, with the aim of transmitting the beauty perceived through the interpretation of shapes.
- Project Duration
- January 2024 and finished June 2024. It was made in Nova Petropolis, Rio Grande do Sul. Brazil
- Operation Flow
- Imagine sinking into the Anima armchair after a long day. Its organic and natural curves invite you to relax, wrapping you in a cocoon of comfort with the Tauari wood. As you settle in, the playful lines and natural aesthetic create a soothing atmosphere, reminiscent of a serene walk in nature. You might take a moment to enjoy a good book, the chair cradling you like a gentle embrace.
- Team Members
- Pietro Luigi Verona
- Image Credits
- Pietro Luigi Verona
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