Nina & Beni Chair by Andres Marino Maza is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Golden A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
GoldFurniture· 2020
Nina & Beni Chair
Client: Marinomaza
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About Nina & Beni Chair
Nina & Beni is a solid wood chair inspired by the forms of wooden boat structures. Two steam-bent strips cantilever over the seat, serving first as legs, then as armrests, and finally shaping to the lumbar area. The chair is made of ash, cherry, oak or walnut from sustainably sourced forests, and is finished with natural oils and waxes. Molds cut on a five axis machine guide the steam bending and the lamination of the wood strips. The seat is removable and interchangeable. The shaping method limits material waste.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
Nina & Beni Chair is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Nina & Beni Chair is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Nina & Beni Chair creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
Where to Get It
Custom Sustainable Furniture Design Services
We design and craft bespoke furniture that harmonizes natural beauty with sustainable innovation. Our Madrid-based studio specializes in steam-bent wood techniques, creating elegant pieces that honor traditional craftsmanship while embracing modern technology. Winner of the prestigious A' Design Award.
Commission DesignInterviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The Nina and Beni chair is inspired by the techniques used in naval architecture, shapes made from wood that join form and function, minimizing waste through the use of steam-bending.
I wanted the design to be modern and elegant, to showcase the technical difficulty in entails to bend wood to such extents.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
I was prototyping techniques for creating complex shapes with wood and from that research I realized I could fabricate the geometry I had in mind. In that sense the main focus was perfecting the molds necessary to make the chair.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
In these uncertain times it is hard to make predictions on the future but the project was always to continue to promote the chair and see where that leads.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Two steam-bent strips cantilever over the seat to serve first as legs then armrest and finally mold to the lumbar area. The Nina & Beni chair is made from 100% sustainably sourced forests.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Dimensions: W 560 x H 720 x L 500mm
Weight: 8 kg (unboxed)
Main materials: ash, cherry, oak or walnut
Finish: Natural oils and waxes - Tags
- Steam bending, solid wood, sustainable, chair design
- Production Technology
- To achieve the complex geometry of the Nina & beni chair we use a 5 axis CNC to cut 2 molds which we then use to steam bend the solid wood strips to their form. We then use another set of cnc-cut counter molds to make the 3d lamination.
- Design Challenge
- The most difficult part was designing and building the 3 dimensional molds needed to build the chair.
- Research
- Sustainability is my design objective.
I use wood because it is the best short carbon cycle material, the complex shapes are steam-bent so as to create as little waste as possible.
These pieces are made from quality materials and designed to last a lifetime. - Inspiration
- Inspired by the efficient yet beautiful forms of wooden naval structures. Boat building achieves aerodynamic forms that take advantage of the trees grain with little waste.
- Project Duration
- This project started in September 2019, was exhibited at The Stockholm Furniture fair in January then at the London design fair in September
- Operation Flow
- Solid wood chair meant to last a lifetime
Seat is removable and interchangeable. - Image Credits
- Photographs taken by https://www.uxio.es/
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