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Cadeira كرسي by Alvaro Wolmer

Cadeira كرسي by Alvaro Wolmer is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 جائزة A' Design Award البرونزية in تصميم الأثاث Competition Category.


برونزالأثاث· 2022

Cadeira كرسي

by Alvaro Wolmer

Client: Alvaro Wolmer

جائزة A' Design Award البرونزية Winner in الأثاث Category

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The Design

About Cadeira كرسي

هذه القطعة من الأثاث هي أكثر من مجرد كرسي، فهي أيضًا مجموعة من نماذج 34 نوعًا من الأخشاب، من البرازيل ومن مختلف أنحاء العالم؛ إنه كرسي يمكن للمرء أن يجلس عليه بارتياح وأن يتعرّف في الوقت ذاته على تنوّع هذا المورد الطبيعي. والكرسي بذاته يجيب على سؤال تكرّر طرحه على المصمم خلال الخمسة والثلاثين عامًا الماضية: ما هو نوع هذا الخشب؟

The Recognition

About the جائزة A' Design Award البرونزية

Cadeira كرسي هو فائز بجائزة A' Design Award البرونزية، وهي تقدير رفيع المكانة يُمنح للتصاميم المتميزة التي تتسم بالإبداع والبراعة وحدة الذكاء. والفائزون بالبرونزية مصنوعات بارعة بوفرة ومبدعة بصورة لافتة، تؤكد الخبرة الواسعة والخيال وسعة الحيلة لدى مصمميها. ويُتوقع أن يكون Cadeira كرسي قطعة عالية التقدير ومحل إعجاب وحب، شديدة الاحترافية والابتكار. وهذا التصميم الفائز بجائزة A' Design Award البرونزية يتبنى أفضل الممارسات في الفن والعلم والتصميم والتكنولوجيا، ويتميز بعنايته بالتفاصيل. ويلبّي Cadeira كرسي الاحتياجات على أفضل وجه، ويلامس الرغبات، ويأسر المشاعر، ويستثير الفضول.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties
It is more than a chair, it is also a collection of samples of 34 wooden species; it's a chair one can learn about the diversity of this natural resource.
Dimensions & Packaging
Chair: 82 cm high x 60 cm wide x 60 cm deep. Plywood Crate: 85 cm high x 64 cm wide x 64 cm deep
Tags
chair, wooden chair, fine furniture, fine woodworking, conceptual design
Production Technology
The chair is made in my woodworking shop, Alvaro Wolmer Movelaria Fina Ltda, by two fine woodworkers. They joined the shop 30 and 25 years ago. We use the basic machines to work with wood, plus a CNC router to engrave the woods' names. Each chair takes 140 hours of work to be completed.
Design Challenge
It is a very basic chair regarding the shape, and a very basic woodworking construction for a chair. The main purpose was to show the fine woods in their best and identify them.
Research
I have been collecting fine woods from Brazil and all over the world in the past 35 years. I always liked to mix different woods in my projects, mixing colors and textures. At a certain point I realized that, in general, people are not familiar with wooden names; that was the starting point to design a chair made of 34 wooden species and engrave their common and scientific names on each part of it.
Inspiration
I have been collecting fine Brazilian woods and fine woods from all over the world in the past 35 years. I always liked to mix different woods, colors and textures, in my projects. At a certain point I realized that, in general, people are not familiar with wooden names. That was my starting point to design a chair made of 34 wooden species and engrave their common and scientific names on each part of it.
Project Duration
The project started in January 2020 in Sao Paulo and ended also in Sao Paulo in October 2020.
Operation Flow
It's a confortable chair that same people just sit down and some people read the names and start a conversation about wood. It's very common also to see people recognizing a wood of a piece of furniture of their childhood; a wood that they didn't know its name, fond memories.
Patents
The design was registered in IAB - Instituto dos Arquitetos do Brasil.
Team Members
Designer: Alvaro Wolmer
Master Woodworker: Daniel Alberto Lavaroni
Master Woodworker: José de Deus Rocha
Image Credits
All the photos were taken by Ding Musa.

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