Flip صندلی تبدیل‌شونده by Niko Kapa is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 جایزه آهنی A' Design Award in طراحی مبلمان Competition Category.
آهنمبلمان· 2025
Flip صندلی تبدیل‌شونده
by Niko Kapa
Client: Snk
جایزه آهنی A' Design Award Winner in مبلمان Category
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The Design
About Flip صندلی تبدیل‌شونده
با اصل محدودیت در مصرف مواد و خلوص فرم، کیفیت طراحی بر پایه چین‌خوردگی‌های هندسی و خطوطی است که منجر به اتصال متقابل بخش‌های مختلف می‌شوند و همگی در خدمت عملکرد قرار دارند. این طراحی به صندلی امکان می‌دهد تا بین فضاهای مختلف جابجا شود و به حالات و نیازهای کاربر پاسخ دهد، چراکه تنها با چرخاندن آن قابل تبدیل است. هیچ عنصری بدون هدف نیست و اجزای جداگانه برای خلق ساختاری سبک اما بسیار مستحکم با یکدیگر همکاری می‌کنند.
The Recognition
About the جایزه آهنی A' Design Award
Flip صندلی تبدیل‌شونده برنده جایزه آهنی A' Design Award است، شناختی معتبر که به طراحی‌های خوبی اعطا می‌شود که الزامات حرفه‌ای و صنعتی مورد انتظار از آفرینش‌های خوب طراحی‌شده را برآورده می‌کنند. برندگان آهن مهارت بزرگ، تخصص بالا، درک کارشناسانه و ظرفیت خلاقانه سازندگان خود را نشان می‌دهند. از Flip صندلی تبدیل‌شونده انتظار می‌رود آفرینشی بسیار ارجمند، ستوده و دوست‌داشتنی باشد که کاربردی و نوآورانه است. این طراحی برنده جایزه آهنی A' Design Award بهترین رویه‌های صنعت را یکپارچه می‌کند و ویژگی‌های فنی شایسته‌ای دارد که با دانش عملی و استعداد پیوند خورده است. Flip صندلی تبدیل‌شونده به سبب دقتش محترم است و برای عرضه بهبودهای کیفیت زندگی که به بهتر شدن جهان کمک می‌کنند طراحی شده است.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Flexibility and transformation are the fundamental ideas behind this design. The design allows the chair to migrate between different settings and respond to moods and needs of the user, since it can be transformed just by flipping it. This results to different seating postures and designs as per the needs of the user. Besides the alteration, this gives the product a visual consolidation, emphasizing the reduction of materials and unification of forms.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Structural stability is attained by the overlapping plywood strips that curve into one another and are glued on connection points. These provide the necessary flexibility that thin layers of plywood offer as a construction material, together with the cushions attached to them. Plywood sheets are spray painted and varnished on all sides. Besides the natural beech wood finish, they come in black and white colored types.
- Tags
- Transformable, flexible, fluid, plywood, sustainable
- Production Technology
- The manufacturing process used for the plywood is steam bending which is a low energy, low waste process using no toxic glues, just water. The process of steaming the wood also seasons it at the same as it is bent, using a fraction of the energy required in conventional kiln drying. Having in mind always the use of low environmental impact solutions, plywood is used with low VOC finishes and Bio Shield natural oil finishes, in order to reveal the textural qualities of wood construction.
- Design Challenge
- With the fluidity of seat and the linearity if strips, the design is suggestive of plant growth. In this way it expresses the spirit of the material it is made of and reveals the textural qualities of wood construction. With an intentionally clear and simple form for this furniture, adaptation to the product philosophy of Dorma Design was taken into account, in order to make this chair complementary of company’s group of furniture and suitable for mass production.
- Research
- The research focused on how the curve segments can be combined together taking into account physically satisfying posture as well as ergonomics. Full scale mockups were produced in order to check the weight and functionality of the furniture prior to fabrication. Cushions were tested in order to act as an extension of the main framing, having as a basic principle the minimum use of material and minimum number of construction elements.
- Inspiration
- When you bend a strip of plywood you get an elastic curve. What geometry does this curve follow? The interest in line and movement is expressed through a refined vocabulary, derived from the functional aspects of the design. The main structural elements are strips of plywood that fold in a specific and supplementary manner, in line with proportions of the human body so as to establish the dimensions of the chair.
- Operation Flow
- Exploring the value of wooden manufacture and the flexible nature of wood as a construction material, the Flip Flop chair is constructed of a series of plywood elements. Fluid linear forms establish a visual rhythm through the graphic lines of the design. This analytical construction logic with curves and crisp lines defines a characteristic profile with a light and elegant effect.
- Image Credits
- Studio Niko Kapa
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