Chair of Soul Tuoli by Wen Jenq Cherng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Pronssipalkinto A' Design Award in Huonekalumuotoilu Competition Category.

PronssiHuonekalut· 2020

Chair of Soul Tuoli

by Wen Jenq Cherng

Client: Cherng's Work

Pronssipalkinto A' Design Award Winner in Huonekalut Category

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The Design

About Chair of Soul Tuoli

Chair of Soul on tuoli, joka on suunniteltu tukemaan kehoa rennossa, pystyssä istuma-asennossa. Istuimen korkeus, vyötärön kohdalla oleva selkänoja sekä käsinojat kantavat yläkehon painon. Hieman kaareva selkänoja mukailee kehon muotoa ja helpottaa jännitystä hartioissa, niskassa, vyötärössä ja raajoissa. Perinteinen Ming-dynastian huonekaluperinne toimii mallina yksinkertaisille mittasuhteille. Sulawesilta peräisin oleva eebenpuu muodostaa rungon pääosan, ja siihen on yhdistetty kuparisista putkista tehdyt jalat sekä purppuranvärinen Nappa-nahkainen istuinosa. Osat on liitetty toisiinsa tappiliitoksin, ja kaareva rakenne yhdistää jalat istuimeen.

The Recognition

About the Pronssipalkinto A' Design Award

Chair of Soul Tuoli on Pronssipalkinnon A' Design Award -voittaja, erittäin arvostettu tunnustus, joka myönnetään erinomaisille designeille, joita luonnehtivat luovuus, nerokkuus ja oveluus. Pronssivoittajat ovat runsaan taitavia ja silmiinpistävän luovia taiteellisia tuotoksia, jotka todistavat suunnittelijoidensa laajaa kokemusta, mielikuvitusta ja kekseliäisyyttä. Chair of Soul Tuoli:n odotetaan olevan korkeassa arvossa pidetty, ihailtu ja rakastettu esine, joka on huomattavan ammattimainen ja innovatiivinen. Tämä Pronssipalkinnon A' Design Award -voittajadesign sisällyttää itseensä parhaita käytäntöjä taiteessa, tieteessä, designissa ja teknologiassa ja on erinomainen huomiollaan yksityiskohtiin. Chair of Soul Tuoli tyydyttää upeasti tarpeita, koskettaa haluja, viehättää tunteita ja vetoaa uteliaisuuteen.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Chair of Soul is my entry point of use as a starting point for design thinking. Since I have long been practicing meditation for destressing and calming my body and mind, I am hoping the design of the chair could reflect a completely relaxed condition for the body. Overall design is thereby focused on its function, where the user would sit upright on the chair and his or her upper-body weight be perfectly supported through the height of the chair, the backrest at the waist, and the armrests.
Dimensions & Packaging: When producing a hereditary chair, what is more important than ensuring its functions is finding ways to incorporate visual aesthetics. I am using Chinese traditional Ming Dynasty style furniture as my blueprint, borrowing its elegant and simple exterior design and principles on proportion. And through enhancement of overall structural system, a unique arc structure is used as the support that connects the legs and the seat of the chair.
Tags: Product, Chair, Health, Oriental, Furniture
Production Technology: The curvature of the slightly bulging backrest embraces the body; this waist-supporting chair design offers supports for the human body, so that tensions around user’s shoulders, neck, waist, and limbs would all be relieved–user would be welcomed with a comforting sensation similar to a hug.
Design Challenge: Pairing the material with the metallic copper tube of the legs and the purple cow Nappa leather seat, harmony, elegance, stability, and sustainability are incorporated altogether to bring forth a chair that user could converse with, the chair I dub – Chair of Soul.
Research: A chair that is aimed to improve the users health would need to value the choice of material as equally important as the design that would fit precisely to human body proportions. I have especially chosen the ebony produced in Sulawesi, Indonesia as the chair’s main structure element; its fine material and deep-black colored lines flawlessly interpret the sophistication that the chair should exhibit.
Inspiration: We have always had different thoughts in regards to chairs. This piece of furniture with a long history of evolution has always been deemed irreplaceable in home interior. How should a classic chair, which one hopes to pass down for generations and stay eternally quintessential, be presented?
Project Duration: The project started in December 2016 and finished in December 2018.
Operation Flow: The design is further complemented by the mortice and tenon joint as the reinforcing linkage between parts, bringing betterment to the complex composition found in old-fashioned traditional furniture. In addition to strengthening the chair’s mechanics system, a simplistic and spiritual appearance is thereby created for the chair.
Team Members: Designer: Wen-Jenq Cherng