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Zene Primary Function: Silya sa Kan-anan by John G Williams
Zene Primary Function: Silya sa Kan-anan by John G Williams
Zene Primary Function: Silya sa Kan-anan by John G Williams
Zene Primary Function: Silya sa Kan-anan by John G Williams
Zene Primary Function: Silya sa Kan-anan by John G Williams

Puthaw Muwebles · 2018

Zene Primary Function: Silya sa Kan-anan

by John G Williams

  • A' Design Award nga Puthaw 2018 in Muwebles
  • CLIENT: John G Williams
  • Estimated Number of Design Views: 12,482
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About Zene Primary Function: Silya sa Kan-anan

Book Text: Ang Zene nga silya sa kan-anan nagkuha sa inspirasyon niini gikan sa lumad nga kahoy ug sa Danish Modern nga disenyo. Ang gaan nga mga bangkil sa ash kay yano ug lig-on ug nagpaluyo sa mga lingkoranan ug likod nga hinimo sa hardwood nga daw naglutaw sa bangkil. Ang mga kurba nga porma sa lingkoranan/likod dili gihimo pinaagi sa pagliko sa kahoy kondili pinaagi sa pagsumpay ug paghulma sa lig-on nga hardwood nga kahoy. Isip usa ka serye, ang gaan nga mga bangkil sa ash naghatag ug panaghiusa, ug ang lain-laing lokal nga mga materyales nga gipili alang sa mga lingkoranan/likod nagmugna ug interes ug kalabotan.

About the A' Design Award nga Puthaw

Zene Primary Function: Silya sa Kan-anan usa ka mananaog sa A' Design Award nga Puthaw, usa ka dungganon nga pag-ila nga gihatag sa maayong mga disenyo nga nakatagbo sa propesyonal ug industriyal nga mga gikinahanglan nga gipaabot gikan sa maayo ang pagkadisenyo nga mga paglalang. Ang mga mananaog sa Puthaw nagpakita og dakong kahanas, taas nga espesyalisasyon, eksperto nga pagsabot, ug mamugnaon nga abilidad sa ilang mga tiglalang. Gilauman nga ang Zene Primary Function: Silya sa Kan-anan mahimong gipabilhan, gihangaan, ug gihigugma nga paglalang nga praktikal ug bag-o. Kini nga disenyo nga nakadaog og A' Design Award nga Puthaw naghiusa sa labing maayong mga praktis sa industriya ug adunay hanas nga teknikal nga mga kinaiya nga nalambigit sa kahibalo ug talento. Zene Primary Function: Silya sa Kan-anan gitahod tungod sa pagkamaabtik niini ug gidisenyo aron maghatag og mga pagpaayo sa kalidad sa kinabuhi nga makatabang sa paghimo sa kalibutan nga mas maayong dapit.

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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
Image Credits
all images by the designer: John G Williams

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