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Colored Finch Tuoli by Wingstone Casa

Colored Finch Tuoli by Wingstone Casa is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Hopeapalkinto A' Design Award in Huonekalumuotoilu Competition Category.


HopeaHuonekalut· 2021

Colored Finch Tuoli

by Wingstone Casa

Client: Wingstone Casa

Hopeapalkinto A' Design Award Winner in Huonekalut Category

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The Design

About Colored Finch Tuoli

Colored Finch on peippolinnun muodosta inspiroitunut tuoli. Selkänoja näyttää edestä suoralta ja kaartuu sivuilta, yhdistäen muodon ja mukavuuden. Selkänoja ja istuin on valmistettu käsintehdystä monikerroksisesta puusta, muotoiltuna kaksikerroksiseksi taivutetuksi puuksi. Jalat ovat metalliputkia, jotka on päällystetty käsintehdyillä kangaskerroksilla. Uusiutumattomien materiaalien rajoitettu käyttö jaloissa tukee ympäristönsuojelua. Kuusitoista prototyyppiä rakennettiin, ja istuma-asentojen tutkimiseen sekä lopullisen koon määrittämiseen käytettiin testinukkea. Tuolin leveys on 490 mm, syvyys 550 mm ja korkeus 810 mm.

The Recognition

About the Hopeapalkinto A' Design Award

Colored Finch Tuoli on Hopeapalkinnon A' Design Award -voittaja, äärimmäisen arvostettu tunnustus, joka myönnetään huippuluokan, upeille ja vaikuttaville designeille. Hopeavoittajat ovat äärimmäisen loistavia ja erittäin luovia teoksia, jotka havainnollistavat suunnittelijoidensa erinomaista asiantuntemusta, lahjakkuutta ja terävyyttä. Colored Finch Tuoli:n odotetaan olevan ihana, esimerkillinen teos, joka on huomattavan ammattimainen ja syvästi innovatiivinen. Tämä Hopeapalkinnon A' Design Award -voittajadesign on erittäin merkittävä, ihailtu keksintö, joka hyödyttää taiteen, tieteen, designin ja teknologian rajojen laajentamista. Colored Finch Tuoli on laajalti kadehdittu luomus, joka herättää haluja, tuo myönteisiä tunteita ja sytyttää hämmästystä ja ihmetystä.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties
Colored Finch Chair, the artistic furniture created altogether by Professor Chang KeFei and Wing Stones that was finalized as a design project in May 2020.
Dimensions & Packaging
Width 490mm x Depth 550mm x Height 810mm
Tags
Chair, Furniture, Product, Homeware, Design
Production Technology
To make the chair both stylish and comfortable, the designer made the backrest look straight upfront and curved on the side. Given these considerations, the designer asked the factory to use the double-layer curved wood according to the Rhino model of product. To make entire chair thin and light, the production team needed to develop the suitable metal parts so to manufacture the finished product.
Design Challenge
We had changed some suppliers before finding the ideal manufacture to impeccably embody the furniture. It required a challenging craftmanship to complete Colored Finch Chair, which demanded extraordinary expertise for manufacturing. During the process, the brand owner and the designer endured diverse pressures. They had to confirmed repeatedly with the cooperative manufacture. It was the hardship of creation.
Research
Colored Finch Chair is a piece of composite furniture whose backrest and chair seat were made of the handmade multi-layer woods. The chair legs were made of metal tubes uniformly laminated by handmade fabrics. The minimized usage of non-renewable materials for chair legs exemplifies the creation based on environmental protection.
Inspiration
The design idea of Colored Finch Chair was inspired from the fairy in nature—finches.
The bird observes all things in nature in trees. It looks proud and free, and its splendid wings covering the round body figuratively exemplify the fairy painting on the green canvas of nature.
The designer thoroughly observing the postures of bird discovered the most general bird’s shapes artistically converted into the design of furniture, thus adding a touch of spiritual atmosphere of nature in the space.
Project Duration
Proposal confirmation in May 2020.
Market launch in October 2020.
Operation Flow
There were 16 prototypes of Colored Finch Chair, which means that the model of Colored Finch Chair was modified for 16 times in the phase of modeling. The scenarios were simulated by applying the medical dummy to the different usages of chair so to determine the size of chair and the final project. After finalizing the shape of chair, the designer generated the rendering. In this phase, the product in rendering was simulated so to discover the best materials, and its scale was examined in the final run.
Team Members
Designer: Ke-Fei Zhang
Designer: Hui-Zi Zhang
Image Credits
Image #1-5: Photographer WINGSTONE CASA, Colored Finch, 2020.

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