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Kodama Bar Stool Barbestuhlung by Marshall Wollum

Kodama Bar Stool Barbestuhlung by Marshall Wollum is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award in Bronze in Möbeldesign Competition Category.


BronzeMöbel· 2021

Kodama Bar Stool Barbestuhlung

by Marshall Wollum

Client: Kodama Designs

A' Design Award in Bronze Winner in Möbel Category

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The Design

About Kodama Bar Stool Barbestuhlung

Der Kodama Barhocker ist ein hölzerner Sitz für den Einsatz an Theken und Bars. Der Entwurf folgt einem Japandi-Ansatz mit einer bodenständigen und organischen Anmutung. Der Kontrast zwischen Nussbaum und Apfelholz betont die eigens entwickelten Holzverbindungen, die sichtbar bleiben. Traditionelles Tischlerwissen wird mit einer CNC-Fräse kombiniert, was Holzverbindungen von größerer Komplexität und Präzision ermöglicht. Der Hocker misst 45 cm in der Breite, 54 cm in der Tiefe und 66 cm in der Höhe. Der Name Kodama bedeutet Geist des Baumes, und der Entwurf würdigt Holz als nachwachsenden Rohstoff.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Bronze

Kodama Bar Stool Barbestuhlung ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Bronze, einer hochprestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für herausragende Designs, die sich durch Kreativität, Einfallsreichtum und Scharfsinn auszeichnen. Bronze-Gewinner sind reichlich geschickte und auffallend kreative Artefakte, die die große Erfahrung, Fantasie und Findigkeit ihrer Designer belegen. Von Kodama Bar Stool Barbestuhlung wird erwartet, dass es ein hochgeschätztes, bewundertes und geliebtes Objekt ist, das bemerkenswert professionell und innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Bronze prämierte Design verkörpert bewährte Verfahren in Kunst, Wissenschaft, Design und Technologie und ist hervorragend in seiner Liebe zum Detail. Kodama Bar Stool Barbestuhlung befriedigt Bedürfnisse auf großartige Weise, berührt Wünsche, bezaubert Gefühle und spricht die Neugier an.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties
A subtle Japandi design with a grounded and organic aesthetic. The contrasting Walnut and Applewood highlight the stool's creative and original wood joinery. The Kodama Bar Stool is a blend of ancient techniques with modern technology to create a piece that will hopefully endure for generations, in both construction and design aesthetic.
Dimensions & Packaging
Width 45cm, Depth 54cm, Height 66cm
Tags
Wood joinery, stool, furniture, autocad, fusion 360, cnc router, cnc machine
Production Technology
The challenge of this project was devising a method to program the powerful CNC router to delicately manifest the design through complex coding of the toolpaths and precision workholdings of the components on the machine. This innovative process has many more exciting years of refinement ahead as we are just beginning to open the door to a new era of parametric design and manufacturing that will allow human creativity to flourish with these new capabilities.
Design Challenge
This is a new field of manufacturing with little education opportunities available so I'm self-taught and continually making everything up as I go. I wake up every day feeling like the luckiest guy in the world to be on this creative adventure.
Inspiration
The word Kodama translates to the "spirit of the tree". The intent behind the Kodama Bar Stool is to pay tribute to wood, one of our world's most renewable materials, and to honor the tree that granted us its life's work.
The goal of this project was to combine the knowledge of traditional woodworking with a CNC router to accomplish joinery that was previously unobtainable in complexity and precision.
Project Duration
The project started in 2016 in the mountains of Colorado and was finished in Southern California in March 2019.
Operation Flow
Visible and honest wood joinery designed to hopefully endure through generations of daily use.

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