Madison Lounge Bench by Gerardo Ríos is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2016 A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
IronFurniture· 2016
Madison Lounge Bench
by Gerardo Ríos
Client: G. Rios Furniture & Design
A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About Madison Lounge Bench
Madison is a lounge bench designed to seat up to three adults. The frame is made of solid German beech wood with stainless steel cylindrical supports, and the seat is upholstered with high density foam. Mortise and tenon joints provide strength, while the angled legs and the slim seat create a light appearance. Testing confirmed that the bench holds up to 300 kilograms in daily use. The bench measures 1300 mm in width, 450 mm in depth and 370 mm in height. The form recalls car design of the late 1950s and suits contemporary interiors.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Madison Lounge Bench is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Madison Lounge Bench is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Madison Lounge Bench is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
Inspired in the shapes and mood of the 50´s, this piece of the collection cosmic, emulates the incredible optimistic and progressive mind of the time of astronaut era.
Shapes follow the lines of cars and spaceships of that time.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
This is part of a collection that should fit into the Scandinavian style spaces, but with a large twist of retrospective shape and style, thinking to inspire optimistic and progressive mentality as a way to escape from the daily routine.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
To build a signature brand of design at the highest standard for the world. Bringing furniture and other artifacts from the art (admiration and contemplation) to the interactive and enjoyable daily life of people that wants in their every day objects of interaction, a source of inspiration.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This comfortable bench has a good size to sit up to 3 persons, and at the same time it has a light and beautiful design.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 1300mm W x 450mm D x 370mm H
- Tags
- Modernism, spatial idealism, lounge bench, decorative, furniture
- Production Technology
- Built in solid German Beech wood, with stainless steel cylindrical supports and upholstered with high density foam. The joint system is mortise and tenon, using Italian high end machinery.
- Design Challenge
- To achieve a visual lightness on the structure, without losing resistance.
- Research
- The design of the joinery and the angles of the structure were studied and tested carefully so that this piece could withstand daily use and up to 300 kg of weight without breaking. 4 prototypes were built.
- Inspiration
- Part of the Cosmic collection inspired on the cars around 1959. The angle of the legs resembles a rising rocket, and the upholstered surface seems to float upon four metal cylinders that supports it, providing the illusion of an airplane wing. The collection expresses modernism and the spatial idealism present in the early 60's, with a modern and renovated twist that provides a contrast to the upholstery which makes it suitable in almost any contemporary style.
- Project Duration
- This project took 10 weeks from the first sketches to the final prototype for mass production, made in the laboratory and prototype design in Mérida, Yucatán, México.
- Operation Flow
- These lightweight forms provide sufficient strength and size to accommodate up to three adults, sitting without a problem and at the same time it is easy to carry and move.
- Team Members
- Gerardo Ríos
- Image Credits
- Ricardo López
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