Zene Стол за трапезария by John G Williams is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2018 Желязна награда A' Design Award in Дизайн на мебели Competition Category.
ЖелязоМебели· 2018
Zene Стол за трапезария
Client: John G Williams
Желязна награда A' Design Award Winner in Мебели Category
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About Zene Стол за трапезария
Столът за трапезария Zene черпи вдъхновение от местната дървесина и датския модерен дизайн. Леките рамки от ясен са семпли и здрави и поддържат седалки и облегалки от твърда дървесина, които сякаш се носят върху рамката. Извитите форми на седалката/облегалката не се получават чрез огъване на дървото, а по-скоро чрез сглобяване и оформяне на масивна твърда дървесина. Като серия леките рамки от ясен осигуряват цялост, а различните местни материали, избрани за седалките/облегалките, създават интерес и уместност.
The Recognition
About the Желязна награда A' Design Award
Zene Стол за трапезария е носител на Желязната награда A' Design Award — престижно признание, присъждано на добри дизайни, които отговарят на професионалните и индустриалните изисквания, очаквани от добре проектирани творения. Желязните победители демонстрират голямо умение, висока специализация, експертно разбиране и творчески капацитет на своите създатели. Очаква се Zene Стол за трапезария да бъде високо ценено, възхищавано и обичано творение, което е практично и иновативно. Този дизайн, спечелил Желязната награда A' Design Award, интегрира най-добрите отраслови практики и притежава компетентни технически характеристики, свързани с ноу-хау и талант. Zene Стол за трапезария се радва на уважение заради щателността си и предлага подобрения в качеството на живот, които помагат светът да стане по-добро място.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This series of dining chairs have American ash frames and showcase different hardwood timbers for the seat/backrest combinations.
The chairs draw on the ancient art of 'coopering' or how oak barrels are made for fermentation purposes. The curved forms of the seat/backrest are not formed by bending but rather by joining and shaping solid hardwood timber.
The chair strives to be very strong and beautiful. In short: Zene -
elegant, comfortable and dependable. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 515mm wide x 570mm deep x 890mm high
seat: 515mm wide x 390mm deep
back:515mm wide x 200mm high - Tags
- zene, dining chair, south africa, hardwood, curved, cooper, danish modern, minimalist
- Production Technology
- The Zene design evolved over a number of years. The starting point was probably a fascination with the art of coopering and how this has been applied to furniture design. Building the segmented seat and backrests took some practice to perfect, as did the development of custom modifications to standard workshop tools to shape and finish the smoothly shaped forms.
- Design Challenge
- Building the coopered seat/backrests was challenging as it required careful attention to the compression forces on the material and how best to achieve high compression without causing the seats to 'implode'.
Shaping the rough seats into finely finished and smooth curves required considerable re-working of the custom tooling to achieve the desired results - Research
- Danish modern designs were studied and absorbed to consider different ways of rendering the frame, and its relationship to the seat, and to think through the spatial relationship of the seat to the backrest.
Web search was used to think about typical dimensions for the seat but in the end prototyping proved most fun. - Inspiration
- The beauty grain and colour of indigenous African timber was a key aesthetic inspiration for this project. The more technical inspiration for the overall work, including the frame design came from iconic designers such as Hans J Wegner (for example the CH20 Elbow Chair). The coopering technique was inspired by Ontario furniture designer Adrian Ferrazzutti.
- Project Duration
- The first prototype was conceived in Johannesburg in 2007. It was slowly refined as background task over 10 years, and the first set of 6 chairs was produced in 2017
- Operation Flow
- Zene is designed mainly for use at the dining table and is designed for extended dining comfort.
- Patents
- no patents pending
- Team Members
- John G Williams: designer, craftsman
- Image Credits
- all images by the designer: John G Williams
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