Chair of Soul Chaise by Wen Jenq Cherng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design de Mobilier Competition Category.

BronzeMobilier· 2020

Chair of Soul Chaise

by Wen Jenq Cherng

Client: Cherng's Work

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Mobilier Category

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The Design

About Chair of Soul Chaise

Chair of Soul est une chaise conçue pour soutenir le corps dans une posture droite et détendue. La hauteur de l'assise, le dossier au niveau des lombaires et les accoudoirs supportent le poids du haut du corps. Le dossier légèrement galbé épouse la forme du corps et soulage les tensions des épaules, de la nuque, de la taille et des membres. Le mobilier traditionnel de la dynastie Ming a servi de modèle pour ces proportions épurées. L'ébène de Sulawesi constitue la structure principale, associé à des pieds en tube de cuivre et à une assise en cuir Nappa violet. Des assemblages à tenon et mortaise relient les différents éléments, tandis qu'une structure en arc de cercle raccorde les pieds à l'assise.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Chair of Soul 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. Chair of Soul 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. Chair of Soul 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: 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