The Fortunate Ruyi Chair Chaise by Tzu Wei Lin

The Fortunate Ruyi Chair Chaise by Tzu Wei Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design de Mobilier Competition Category.

BronzeMobilier· 2023

The Fortunate Ruyi Chair Chaise

by Tzu Wei Lin

Client: Xudong Interior Decoration Design Co., Ltd.

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Mobilier Category

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The Design

About The Fortunate Ruyi Chair Chaise

La chaise Fortunate Ruyi est une chaise inspirée du motif Ruyi, symbole traditionnel chinois de bon augure. Une forme de chaise classique constitue la base structurelle et se combine à un motif Ruyi simplifié. Le motif est dupliqué puis inversé, avant d'être superposé et fusionné pour former une assise et des pieds galbés. Des lignes courbes irrégulières, des courbes intérieures et des pointes extérieures créent une impression de fluidité et un équilibre asymétrique. La chaise mesure 500 mm de largeur, 600 mm de profondeur et 500 mm de hauteur. La culture traditionnelle s'y allie à une esthétique contemporaine.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

The Fortunate Ruyi Chair Chaise est lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze, une reconnaissance hautement prestigieuse décernée à des designs remarquables qui se distinguent par leur créativité, leur ingéniosité et leur sagacité. Les lauréats Bronze sont des artefacts amplement habiles et d'une créativité frappante, qui authentifient la vaste expérience, l'imagination et l'ingéniosité de leurs concepteurs. The Fortunate Ruyi Chair Chaise est censé être un objet très estimé, admiré et chéri, remarquablement professionnel et innovant. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze intègre les meilleures pratiques de l'art, de la science, du design et de la technologie, et est excellent par son souci du détail. The Fortunate Ruyi Chair Chaise satisfait admirablement les besoins, touche les désirs, charme les sentiments et attire la curiosité.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

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.
Dimensions & Packaging: The furniture piece is Width 500 mmm x Depth 600mm x Height 500mm.
Tags: Furniture, Design, Chair, Ruyi, Fortunate
Production 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.
Design 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.
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.
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.
Project Duration: The project was completed in August 2021 in Taipei Taiwan.
Operation Flow: 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.
Image Credits: Lin Tzu Wei, 2022