Karamba Stool by Vasil Velchev is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2019 A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
IronFurniture· 2019
Karamba Stool
Client: MAGMA graphics
A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About Karamba Stool
Inspired by a pirate movie this stool looks like captain's treasure chest, where he can successfully hide his loot from the crew, disguised like a piece of furniture. Besides the drawer there are 2 hidden compartments to keep your treasures. Wooden body, ship ropes make the appearance more realistic, like an actual piece of captain's cabin. In a modern interior design this could be a really good accent in the room.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Karamba Stool 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. Karamba Stool 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. Karamba Stool is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Grand Interview
Your innovative fusion of nautical elements and functional storage in the Karamba Stool is captivating - could you walk us through the creative journey that led from pirate movie inspiration to this unique furniture piece?
There are so many elements in this stool that refers to the pirate movies, like the ropes, the hidden compartments, the natural colors and materials.
The rope integration in the Karamba Stool creates a striking visual impact while serving a structural purpose - what technical challenges did you encounter when developing this distinctive feature, and how did you resolve them?
The technical challenges using this rope was firstly where to punch the construction and where to be the path of the rope to create the seating part and then to end up tied to the legs.
Given your background in electrical engineering and graphic design, how did these diverse experiences influence your approach to designing the Karamba Stool, particularly in terms of problem-solving and aesthetic decisions?
My master degree in Electrical engineering was really helpful indeed. Despite the fact that there are no electrical parts here, the engineer way of thinking helped to solve lots of issues.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Spherical shape is nothing unusual. The unique feature here is the rope and the way how it is attached to the legs and piercing the body.This piece of furniture has double function. It can be used as a stool and also for a storage container. Drawer opens and closes with a clicking mechanism. The stool have little rotatable wheels hidden in its legs.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Dimensions of the stool are 530 mm x 530 mm x 430 mm. Materials used: wood, ropes, furniture hardware
- Tags
- Stool, Karamba, Bulgaria, Magma, Graphics, Furniture, Design
- Production Technology
- Made of solid wood (or chipboard for cost saving version) it has colored ropes for decoration and to form the seat. The rope is attached to the legs by knots then it passes through the body and ends on top of it glued to the surface in the shape of spiral. There are four different ropes.
- Design Challenge
- The hardest part was to decide how to implement the ropes and knots in this furniture.
- Research
- Looking at pirate equipment, different kind of ropes and knots. Experimenting with the shape of the body and size of the legs.
- Inspiration
- Looking for unusual shape for a stool and in the same time to be functional. Inspired by movies the aim was to build something that looks like part of a ship equipment.
- Project Duration
- Project started 2 year ago and abandoned until bringing it back to life now. Total duration about 3 months.
- Operation Flow
- It's a storage container in the shape of stool with a drawer.
- Team Members
- Vasil Velchev
- Image Credits
- Vasil Velchev
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