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The Swing Chair Židle by Jiangying Guo

The Swing Chair Židle by Jiangying Guo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Železná cena A' Design Award in Design nábytku Competition Category.


ŽelezoNábytek· 2022

The Swing Chair Židle

by Jiangying Guo

Client: Jiangying Guo

Železná cena A' Design Award Winner in Nábytek Category

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The Design

About The Swing Chair Židle

Houpací židle je sedadlo inspirované houpačkou. Design reaguje na pohyby těla a vytváří dynamickou interakci pro odpočinek i hru. Sedák a opěradlo jsou pružné a nastavitelné, takže se přizpůsobují preferovaným sedacím pozicím a pohybům uživatele. Úhel mezi sedákem a opěradlem se může měnit od 120 do 133 stupňů. Konstrukce má tvar krychle o rozměrech 61x61x61 centimetrů. Rám je vyroben z dubového dřeva, sedák a opěradlo z překližky a houpací části z bavlněného lana. Drsné lano vytváří tření se dřevem, které udržuje pohyb kontrolovaný a bezpečný.

The Recognition

About the Železná cena A' Design Award

The Swing Chair Židle je vítězem Železné ceny A' Design Award, prestižního uznání udělovaného dobrým designům, které splňují profesní a průmyslové požadavky očekávané od dobře navržených výtvorů. Železní vítězové prokazují velké dovednosti, vysokou specializaci, odborné porozumění a tvůrčí kapacitu svých tvůrců. Očekává se, že The Swing Chair Židle bude vysoce ceněným, obdivovaným a oblíbeným výtvorem, který je praktický a inovativní. Tento design, který získal Železnou cenu A' Design Award, integruje osvědčené postupy odvětví a má kompetentní technické vlastnosti spojené s know-how a talentem. The Swing Chair Židle je vážen pro svou důkladnost a je navržen tak, aby poskytoval zlepšení kvality života, která pomáhají činit svět lepším místem.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
Inspired by the swing, this chair aims to respond with human body movements and create a dynamic interaction with the users - for them to relax and play. The seat and backrest are flexible and adjustable in a way that they are able to follow users’ preferred sitting positions and their movements while sitting. It also has a minimal structure: seat and backrest supported by a simple frame (61x61x61cm), giving the seat floating and chair lightweight.
Dimensions & Packaging
The chair is in a "perfect cube" structure: 61x61x61cm.
Tags
Chair, Sustainable, Playful, Moveable Seats, Swing
Production Technology
The material here I used Oak wood for the structure, plywood for the seat and backrest, cotton cord for the swing, and rubber screw to connect the backrest.
Design Challenge
The hardest part of this design is to control the level of movement, which is affected by the design as well as the material. Allowing too much movement would cause a user to fall off the chair. The thick cotton cord has rough texture and thus create good friction with the wood, in this way, it allows the seat to still create movements but in a controlled and safe way.
Inspiration
This chair is inspired by the swing. I want to incorporate the playfulness and movement of swing into a chair which is normally considered to have a fixed angle between seat and backrest.
Project Duration
This project is completed in Copenhagen in 2017; the duration of design and production took around 2 months.
Operation Flow
Both the seat and backrest are adjustable based on user's movement. The angle between the seat and backrest could be adjusted from 120 to 133 degree (please see the image above).

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