Kuan Butaca by Fnji Ltd - Frank Chou is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Ferro in Disseny de Mobiliari Competition Category.

FerroMobiliari· 2022

Kuan Butaca

by Fnji Ltd - Frank Chou

Client: FNJI x Frank Chou

A' Design Award de Ferro Winner in Mobiliari Category

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The Design

About Kuan Butaca

Kuan és una butaca dissenyada per a espais de vida contemporanis. L'estructura és senzilla i sense pretensions, combinant metall amb tapisseria de llana. El volum del seient, les línies de l'estructura i el contrast entre formes sòlides i buides reflecteixen el caràcter reservat de la filosofia oriental. La coberta està feta de teixit de llana importat, estabilitzat mitjançant un procés tradicional per crear una superfície llisa amb bona resistència al desgast i al pilling. Es combinen capes d'escuma de diferents densitats per oferir un seient còmode. Kuan està disponible amb diferents materials de coberta.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Ferro

Kuan Butaca és un guanyador del guardó A' Design Award de Ferro, un reconeixement prestigiós concedit a bons dissenys que compleixen els requisits professionals i industrials esperats de creacions ben dissenyades. Els guanyadors de Ferro demostren una gran habilitat, una alta especialització, una comprensió experta i la capacitat creativa dels seus creadors. Es preveu que Kuan Butaca sigui una creació molt apreciada, admirada i estimada que és pràctica i innovadora. Aquest disseny guanyador del guardó A' Design Award de Ferro integra les millors pràctiques del sector i té característiques tècniques competents lligades al coneixement i al talent. Kuan Butaca és respectat per la seva minuciositat i està pensat per oferir millores en la qualitat de vida que ajuden a fer del món un lloc millor.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Kuan Chair represents a style of contemporary oriental manner. The structure of this chair is simple and unpretentious. With high quality metal and wool materials, Kuan Chair also reveals the bywords for elegance and wisdom. The different feelings experienced by the volume of its seat, the lines of its structure, and the contrast between substance and emptiness, almost shows the reserved thoughts in Oriental philosophy. It is available with different covering materials.
Dimensions & Packaging: 690 mm x 735 mm x 670 mm
Tags: timeless, contrast, oriental, experimental
Production Technology: Kuan Chair adopts Italian brand imported wool fabric, which is stabilized by traditional process to obtain specific surface effect, giving smooth and soft hand feeling, and can achieve excellent resistance to pilling and wear resistance.
Design Challenge: The challenge could be how to explore the possibility of future living through design, which requires a deep understanding of the living status of people and the culture background that different from the others. Also, as part of daily life, chair plays a close role with people, which correspond with their living habits and personality.
Research: Kuan Chair is a new experimental series design by Frank Chou for furniture brand Fnji. It is vested diversified color and outline, meanwhile added in plenty of software and metal element. It contains the modern oriental ideology, molding the pioneer concept of exploring the ability of Chinese future lifestyle.
Inspiration: Kuan Chair is one of the pieces Frank Chou designed for FNJI. It is more free and agility in design, aim at modern and young generation, fusing contemporary design language, simple but warm, elegant and timeless. It contains the modern oriental ideology, molding the pioneer concept of exploring the ability of Chinese future lifestyle.
Project Duration: Kuan Chair was designed and produced in 2018.
Operation Flow: Cloth cover to take tight package process, soft package body form three-dimensional distinct, cloth surface flat fit, using multiple layers of different density of sponge combination filling to achieve a comfortable sitting feeling.
Team Members: Designer: Frank Chou