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Elegance Comfortable To Use by Wei Jingye and Jiang Tianran

Elegance Comfortable To Use by Wei Jingye and Jiang Tianran is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.


IronFurniture· 2020

Elegance Comfortable To Use

by Wei Jingye and Jiang Tianran

Client: Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts

A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category

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The Design

About Elegance Comfortable To Use

Elegance is a set of leisure furniture consisting of a chair and a tea table. The supporting frame is made of stainless steel tubes that are bent, cut and welded to form a solid and stable structure. The tabletop, seat and armrests are made of wood, which adds comfort and a warm appearance. The tubes arranged across the chair back make the furniture look light and rhythmic. The form is inspired by the lines of wood texture. Elegance is intended for offices, studies and homes, and the back supports a correct sitting posture.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award

Elegance Comfortable To Use 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. Elegance Comfortable To Use 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. Elegance Comfortable To Use is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
This is a set of casual furniture consisting of chair and tea table. Its advantage is that it is both lively and rhythmic. It uses the stainless steel tube after bending welding forming, forming a solid and stable structure as the support frame, which is durable and cost-effective. Tabletop, chair face and armrest with wood add comfort and beauty. Stainless steel tube extension trend coincides with wood edge rhythm. The stainless steel tube pipe arrangement in the back of the chair increases the design of the chair and makes the whole furniture look lively and light.
Dimensions & Packaging
Chair and tea table by stainless steel tube and Brazil beautiful pear wood two kinds of material combination and become, integral modelling is fluent, lumber part USES numerical control and manual processing and become, stainless steel tube material USES the processing way of bend, cut, weld to form.
Tags
Log, Stainless steel tube, Simplicity, Leisure, Comfortable
Production Technology
The design of wood using machinery and manual processing, metal pipe using bending, cutting, welding and other processing technology. The main material of the furniture is stainless steel tube and Brazilian rosewood.
Design Challenge
The creative challenge in the process is to make boring stainless steel tube lively and rhythmic, and to increase the comfort of furniture.
Research
The advantage of furniture is that it is both lively and light, and has a sense of rhythm. It uses stainless steel tubes to be welded after bending to form a solid and stable structure as a supporting skeleton, which is durable and cost-effective.
Inspiration
Design inspiration comes from the texture of wood. By refining the line rhythm of wood texture, using the stainless steel tube as the line, wood as the surface, to form a stable structure and lively with rhythmic style.
Project Duration
The design project began in January 2018 in Shenyang, was completed in June 2018, and was exhibited in the art museum of Shenyang Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in June 2018.
Operation Flow
This furniture is designed for various purposes, such as office, study, and life. Designed to fit people sitting posture and habits, it is suitable for a variety of sitting postures, sitting on a chair with their feet down, and the seat back fits the shape of the person back, which can help people to make a correct sitting posture, suitable for entertainment, reading and other activities.
Team Members
Wei Jingye
Jiang Tianran
Jia Zhuohang
Li Tianning

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