Cloud Cadeira by Shota Urasaki is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Ouro in Deseño de Mobiliario Competition Category.

OuroMobiliario· 2020

Cloud Cadeira

by Shota Urasaki

Client: Okinawa Products

A' Design Award de Ouro Winner in Mobiliario Category

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The Design

About Cloud Cadeira

Cloud é unha cadeira inspirada nun chuvasco visto sobre a costa da illa de Okinawa, en Xapón. A superficie do asento está feita perforando fibra de poliéster en escuma de poliuretano cunha agulla, o que crea unha aparencia suave semellante a unha nube. Un asento alto ofrece á persoa sentada unha sensación de flotación. As patas de aceiro inoxidable con acabado de espello e un pedestal están formados por barras redondas finas que expresan a chuvia caendo. O número, a lonxitude e o diámetro das barras determináronse coidadosamente. Cloud está feita a man con aceiro inoxidable, fibra de poliéster, madeira e escuma de poliuretano.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Ouro

Cloud Cadeira gañou o A' Design Award de Ouro, un recoñecemento inmensamente prestixioso outorgado a deseños de primeira clase, marabillosos e sobresaíntes. Os gañadores Ouro son creacións sumamente innovadoras, visionarias e glamurosamente deslumbrantes que reflicten o xenio, a sabedoría e a destreza dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que Cloud Cadeira sexa unha invención moi eloxiada, pioneira e monumental que ofrece un valor sen precedentes. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Ouro é un proxecto espectacular e respectado que beneficia moito a arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía e fai avanzar os seus límites. Cloud Cadeira crea intensos sentimentos de desexo, esperta a paixón, anima a creatividade e fascina.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This is a cloud-like chair that is raining.
The seating surface enables a cloud-like expression by piercing polyester fiber into the polyurethane foam with a needle.
A high seat gives the seated person a floating.
In addition, the mirror-like stainless steel legs and pedestal made it possible to express the rain.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 1000 mm x Depth 900 mm x Height 600 mm
Tags: nature, chair, cloud, okinawa, japan, organic
Production Technology: Materials: Stainless steel, Polyester fiber, Wood, Polyurethane foam
Production processes of the product: Handmade
Design Challenge: In addition, the number, length, and diameter of stainless steel round bars that express rain were carefully determined.
Research: I feel like the products in the world are now uniform.
Different regions have their own culture and nature.
Among them, I paid attention to nature.
I think of naturally inspired designs.
After that, repeat the verification of the material and structure.
I will announce the created design to the world and aim for commercialization.
I believe that doing so will enrich the uniform world.
Inspiration: The sky is connected everywhere in the world.
Many people have seen clouds.
A design inspired by nature will resonate with various people.
I live on Okinawa Island south of Japan.
One day, I saw a moving cloud while it rained on the coast.
The idea of this chair came up from the scenery at that time.
Project Duration: The project started in April 2019 and ended in October 2019.
Operation Flow: I think there are many people who have imagined when they were children that they could sit on clouds.
I realized that imagination.
Poetic products enrich the emotions of users.
In addition, this product makes the surrounding space visually enjoyable.
Image Credits: [ Image #1: Shota Urasaki, Cloud, 2019. ][ Image #2: Shota Urasaki, Cloud, 2019. ][ Image #3: Shota Urasaki, Cloud, 2019. ][ Image #4: Shota Urasaki, Cloud, 2019. ][ Image #5: Shota Urasaki, Cloud, 2019. ]