Colored Finch Cathaoir by Wingstone Casa

Colored Finch Cathaoir by Wingstone Casa is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Duais Airgid A' Design Award in Dealbhadh Àirneis Competition Category.

AirgeadÀirneis· 2021

Colored Finch Cathaoir

by Wingstone Casa

Client: Wingstone Casa

Duais Airgid A' Design Award Winner in Àirneis Category

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The Design

About Colored Finch Cathaoir

Is cathaoir é Colored Finch a fuair inspioráid ó chruth glasáin. Feictear an droim díreach ón tosach agus casann sé ag na taobhanna, ag cur foirm agus compord le chéile. Tá an droim agus an suíochán déanta d'adhmad ilsraitheach lámhdhéanta, múnlaithe mar adhmad cuartha dhá shraith. Is feadáin mhiotail iad na cosa clúdaithe le sraitheanna d'fhabraic lámhdhéanta. Tacaíonn an úsáid theoranta d'ábhair neamh-inathnuaite sna cosa le cúram comhshaoil. Tógadh sé phrótatíop déag, agus úsáideadh mannaicín tástála chun staidéar a dhéanamh ar shuíomhanna suíocháin agus chun an tomhas deiridh a shocrú. Tá an chathaoir 490 mm ar leithead, 550 mm ar doimhneacht agus 810 mm ar airde.

The Recognition

About the Duais Airgid A' Design Award

Tha Colored Finch Cathaoir air Duais Airgid A' Design Award a bhuannachadh, aithneachadh gu math urramach a bheirear do dhealbhaidhean den chiad ìre, àlainn agus drùidhteach. Tha buannaichean Airgid nan obraichean anabarrach boillsgeach agus gu math cruthachail a nochdas sàr-eòlas, tàlant agus geurchuis an luchd-dealbhaidh. Thathar an dùil gum bi Colored Finch Cathaoir na obair mhìorbhaileach, na sàr-eisimpleir a tha gu sònraichte proifeiseanta agus gu domhainn ùr-ghnàthach. Tha an dealbhadh seo a bhuannaich Duais Airgid A' Design Award na innleachd glè fhaicsinneach, ion-mholta a bhrosnaicheas crìochan ealain, saidheans, dealbhaidh agus teicneolais. Tha Colored Finch Cathaoir na chruthachadh air a bheil mòran eud, a dhùisgeas miannan, a bheir faireachdainnean math agus a thogas iongnadh is miorbhail.

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.