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The Fortunate Ruyi Chair Furniture by Tzu Wei Lin Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design
The international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Tzu Wei Lin for furniture design
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that The Fortunate Ruyi Chair Furniture by Tzu Wei Lin, designed for Xudong Interior Decoration Design Co., Ltd., has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About The Fortunate Ruyi Chair Furniture
The Fortunate Ruyi Chair is a chair inspired by the Ruyi motif, a traditional Chinese symbol of good fortune. A classic chair shape forms the structural basis and is combined with a simplified Ruyi pattern. The pattern is duplicated and flipped, then overlapped and fused to form a curved seat and legs. Irregular curved lines, inner curves and outer tips create a sense of flow and an asymmetrical balance. The chair measures 500 mm in width, 600 mm in depth and 500 mm in height. Traditional culture is joined with modern aesthetics.
About Tzu Wei Lin
Each space has a unique personality and must be tailored from scratch. The industrial revolution is a torrent of time that takes away all the complicated and handmade products. We insist on the process of tailoring, finding out the characteristics of space, integrating the needs of use, creating a practical and beautiful experience, and pursuing the highest level of artwork.
Award Record
Tzu Wei Lin is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Furniture Design Award
The A' Furniture Design Award is an international furniture competition recognizing good furniture designs by best furniture designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to furniture designers, product designers, industrial design studios and furniture brands from all countries. Typical entries include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. The awarded furniture designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/furniture
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/147944
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/147944
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!147944
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/341843
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- The Fortunate Ruyi Chair Furniture
- Function
- Furniture
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dark Olive Green, Rosy Brown and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Xudong Interior Decoration Design Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Tzu Wei Lin
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #147944
Credits
- Image Credits
- Lin Tzu Wei, 2022
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Therefore, this design is nothing like what the designer has done before, it starts with the pattern of the Ruyi pattern, and the designer has spent much time researching the concepts and styles of multiple chairs. Little by little, The Fortunate Ruyi Chair concept has transformed into a clearer picture. It is an art piece combined with various layers of materials, the beauty of craftsmanship, the richness of cultural heritage, and the amazingness of the designer ingenuity.
- Inspiration
- Ruyi has served as a unique cultural symbol in Chinese culture and has an underlying meaning of great fortune. The designer has set Ruyi as the primary inspiration for the chair design because, during the designer experiences in the field of interior design over the years, each design project must be executed based on the client preferences and many other contributing factors.
- Research
- Vladimir Kagan, the noted German American furniture designer, believes that designing a chair is like creating a container for an individual. Therefore, the function, shape, and meaning of the chair are highly associated with the user and the environment. This project is a clever application of one of the historical motifs of Chinese culture, Ruyi, to a modern product design. From 3D natural objects to 2D patterns and then applying them to 3D products, the designer has simplified the lines and colors to create a work that is aesthetically modern and attractive.
- Challenge
- For this project, the designer has analyzed the Ruyi pattern, extracted its connotation, and applied it to the product form so that the product is aesthetically, culturally, and functionally enjoyable. In this way, users will understand the underlying cultural spirit of the chair through their experiences with the product. Moreover, this product interprets the spirit of traditional culture unconventionally, changing our perception of traditional culture yet retaining its cultural connotation and, most importantly, paying tribute to ancestry wisdom. In summary, it is an art piece that is awe-inspiring, thought provoking and mind blowing.
- Realization and Technology
- For this project, the designer has set the classic chair style shape as the structural basis and combined it with the simplified Ruyi pattern. Then, by duplicating and flipping the pattern, the pattern is overlapped and fused to form a curved seat and legs, perfectly blending traditional culture with modern aesthetics.
- Operation and Interaction
- Other than that, the lines of the seat are extended by the Ruyi pattern by the use of the irregular curved lines, unique angles of the inner curves, and the outer corners of the tips to produce a rich and dynamic rhythm of the chair, delivering a sense of flow and producing an asymmetrical balance.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was completed in August 2021 in Taipei Taiwan.
- Specifications
- The furniture piece is Width 500 mmm x Depth 600mm x Height 500mm.
- Keywords
- Furniture, Design, Chair, Ruyi, Fortunate
