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Kepler-186f Messaging Chair by Alexandr Strepetov Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
Alexandr Strepetov acknowledged for fine arts and art installation design by the international grand jury of the 2018 - 2019 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2019 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Kepler-186f Messaging Chair by Alexandr Strepetov has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Fine Arts and Art Installation Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2018 - 2019 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.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About Kepler-186f Messaging Chair
Structural basis of Kepler-186f arm-chair is a griddle, soldered from a steel wire to which the elements carved from the oak are fastened with the help of brass sleeves. Various options of armature use combine in harmony with wooden carving and jewelers elements. This art-object represents an experiment in which different aesthetic principles are combined. It could be described as "Barbaric or New Baroque" in which the rough and the exquisite forms are combined. As a result of improvisation, the Kepler became multilayered, enveloped with the subtexts and new details.
About Alexandr Strepetov
Aleksandr is skillful in a variety of techniques, from archaic stylization to abstract genre. The range of his creativity extends from plastic art to monumental objects, from everyday objects to pure art. He is able implement the entire process from the development of an idea to its full accomplishment. Moreover, he easily masters new technologies and open to collaboration and teamwork. His strongest virtue is the ability to produce non-standard ideas.
Award Record
This recognition makes Alexandr Strepetov a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Award
The A' Fine-Art Design Award is an international fine-art design competition recognizing best fine-art works by leading fine-art artists and creators worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to artists, painters, sculptors and ceramicists from all countries. Typical entries include sculptures, paintings, installations, photographs, drawings and mixed media works. The awarded art designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/fine-art
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/75144
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/75144
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!75144
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/231258
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://alexstr.ukit.me/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Kepler-186f Messaging Chair
- Function
- Messaging Chair
- Category
- Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts
- Colors
- Silver, Light Gray, Gainsboro, Dark Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Alexandr Strepetov
- Country
- Russian Federation
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2018 - 2019
- Design ID
- #75144
Credits
- Image Credits
- photographer Tanya Bogdanova, Kepler-186f, 2018.; photographer Tanya Bogdanova, Kepler-186f, 2018. Video Credits:cameraman Mikhail Mikhailuk
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This is both a piece of furniture and a complex sculpture, the body of which combines natural forms and futuristic structures achieved with different manufacturing processes. Monolithic parts are synergistically combined with a naked skeleton structure, revealing the beauty of both the external and the interior parts that are usually hidden.
- Inspiration
- This artwork was created as a part of bigger project where one idea was exploited indiverse methods. I was fascinated of developing single idea in various techniques and materials. Driven by this encouragement I have created experimental works, based on which later appeared wardrobe, table, and this armchair. Here you can see ornamentation inspired by plants (vine, twisting around armrest), as well as anthropomorphic and zoomorphic details, some even end up being a pregnant with creatures, like
- Research
- Creative process was about using over exaggerated, over the top amount of details, to widen possibilities of technology and style used. It was an exploration of gracefully combining different materials. Also, I used some architectural ideas - inverted feet of the armchair remind columns made from rebar, topped with asymmetric monolithic capital. The airy nature and shape freedom allow multiple non-standard uses of Kepler language in construction design. It is clearly not a mass-produced item, but a conglomeration of ideas, based on which creation of simpler pieces is possible.
- Challenge
- The improvisational nature of the project leads me to the experimentation. In the beginning I only had upper part of the chair in my mind. Therefore, I had to work on feet with chair being inverted, which initially seemed like an obstacle, but later it helped formed the end design. Absence of access to welding, led me to seek structural rigidity in woven construction techniques, in wire crossing and wire ties, which eventually opened my eyes to the beauty, strength and awe-inspiring opportunities that arose from seemingly simplistic solutions. I work in a common workshop together with other artists.
- Realization and Technology
- Structurally, the main part of the armchair consists from steel wire 2-3 mm in diameter, intersections of main wire wrapped with thinner wire and soldered with tin alloy. Attached to the wire carcass are wrought brass bushings that are soldered with silver. They hold decorative elements, along with armrests and legs, hand carved from solid oak and finished with variety of paints and lacquers. The wooden seat cover is stitched, designed to be easily removed, while material on the seat back is affixed.
- Operation and Interaction
- Kepler is not just ordinary piece of furniture, but an object of art with secret language. It can be interpreted as a piece from another world, created by alien mind. Sculpture reimagines geometrically plain and lifeless space as something cheerful and life-affirming. From the first sight it is obvious that elements were not created behind computer screen, but it was an organic process, almost like tree grows from the seed, or as if it separated from parental piece of furniture. Sculpture has hidden movement that makes you expect it to start walking, making it impossible to take picture of.
- Project Duration and Location
- The article was started in the summer of 2017, completed in the fall of 2018, in Sankt Petersburg.
- Specifications
- width 760mm. length 840mm. height 1070mm.
- Keywords
- Arm-chair, furniture, furniture design, author furniture, wood carving, sculpture, wire articles, metal construction
