Children Papers Chair Drawing chair by Charlotte Friis is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2018 Silver A' Design Award in Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design Competition Category.
SilverBaby Products· 2018
Children Papers Chair Drawing chair
Client: Charlotte Friis Design Studio
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Baby Products Category
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About Children Papers Chair Drawing chair
The Children Papers Chair rethinks the experience of drawing. It tells a story about the extensive use of paper. The child takes a seat on the paper roll and begins to draw. As the drawing extends in can be rolled on the back cylinder that will store all the drawings. The back support is executed in solid wood with a white lacquer. The paper rolls are held in place by a metal resort system that makes the paper rolling movement possible. It can be used by kids between the ages of three to eight. It can store drawings on 400 meters of paper.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Children Papers Chair Drawing chair 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. Children Papers Chair Drawing chair 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. Children Papers Chair Drawing chair is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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We transform everyday objects into meaningful furniture that tells stories and creates memories. Our conceptual designs blur the boundaries between art and function, creating multi-layered pieces that bring joy and interaction to daily life. Winner of the prestigious A' Design Award.
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Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The chair is inspired by a toilet roll and the fact that the kid can design their own chair.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
My main focus was to design something especially for children, which would also allow the kids to be creative and interact with it.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I would like to continue to exhibit the chair in museums around the world and possibly getting it into production.
Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to transforming the Children Papers Chair Drawing chair from a simple seating solution into an interactive memory collection device is fascinating - could you share the journey that led to this dual-purpose design concept?
Most of my concepts are mirror fragments/stories of life. The Children's Paper Chair draws inspiration of the toilet roll and it tells a story about the extensive use of paper. Despite recycling efforts, large amounts of paper still end up in landfills, where they decompose and release greenhouse gases. My design processes often start with changing the perception of normal objects into multi-functional ones. Childrens Paper Chair is designed through extensive research and the creation of full-scale models. The major design challenge was to designate the movement of the paper roll. The functional design and the meaning of art get blurred in the process.
The Children Papers Chair Drawing chair's ability to store 400 meters of children's artwork speaks to a deep understanding of preserving childhood memories - what inspired you to address this often-overlooked aspect of children's creative development?
The design gains depth from interacting with children and the parents desire to collect all the memories. On a daily basis the child draws a lot and that leaves an impressive amount of drawings that probably will be thrown out. The chair is a response to that sad end.
The paper roll mechanism in the Children Papers Chair Drawing chair appears to be inspired by everyday objects - could you elaborate on how the toilet roll inspiration evolved into this sophisticated drawing storage system?
The Children Papers Chair was originally part of my concept Storytelling Furniture, which documents subjects of daily life. Therefore the chair was not meant to be only about technique, style and function. The design signals values and statements regarding our use of paper. As in art it is a surprising impetus for debate and discussion. This is archived by breaking the boundaries that define normal objects and reinterpret them with other ideas so they become multi functional. The drawing storage system evolved as a result of this process.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The Children Papers Chair rethinks the experience of drawing. It becomes much more than a functional and decorative chair in the playroom, it becomes a memory collection device. It can be used by kids between the ages of three to eight. It can store their drawings on 400 meters of paper for a period of approximately five years.
The kids can use the chair standing facing the back support using it as a drawing board or the other way around, just drawing on the paper roll. The chair becomes a fun and interactive space in it's self. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Paper roll size diam. 370 mm
Back support 650*380*15 mm - Tags
- Children, Kids, Paper, Roll, Chair, Memories, Drawings
- Production Technology
- The back support is executed in solid wood with a white lacquer.
The paper rolls are held in place by a metal resort system that makes the paper rolling movement possible. The metal arms that hold the rolls have the length of 380 mm.
The first roll holds the dimension of 370 mm and the second depending on how much it was been drawn on. - Design Challenge
- The research challenge was finding a way to store the drawings that kids make in their childhood without losing them.
The creative design challenge was to designate the movement of the paper roll. - Research
- The design gains depth from interacting with children and the parents desire to collect all the memories.
On a daily basis the child draws a lot and that leaves an impressive amount of drawings that probably will be thrown out. The chair is a response to that sad end. - Inspiration
- The Children Papers Chair was originally part of Storytelling Furniture, which documents subjects of daily life. The inspiration steams from a toilet roll, and the chair tells a story about our extensive use of paper.
- Project Duration
- The project was developed in Copenhagen and is currently exhibited within The Nordic Embassies in Berlin and after at the Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood, London 2018.
- Operation Flow
- The child takes a seat on the paper roll and begins to draw. As the drawing extends in can be rolled on the back cylinder that will store all the drawings.
- Patents
- Charlotte Friis
- Image Credits
- Charlotte Friis
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