Zense Conxunto de Mesa e Cadeira de Louis Wai Yin Hung

O deseño Zense Conxunto de Mesa e Cadeira de Louis Wai Yin Hung é un estimado gañador do moi prestixioso 2025 A' Design Award de Ouro na Categoría de Competición Deseño de Mobiliario.

OuroMobiliario· 2025

Zense Conxunto de Mesa e Cadeira

de Louis Wai Yin Hung

Cliente: Iterative Studio

Gañador do A' Design Award de Ouro na Categoría Mobiliario

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O Deseño

Sobre Zense Conxunto de Mesa e Cadeira

Zense é unha mesa transformable que fusiona a artesanía tradicional chinesa coa funcionalidade contemporánea. O seu diseño converte o proceso de transformación nun acto ritualístico, involucrando os cinco sentidos do usuario para transitar fluidamente entre superficie de caligrafía e plataforma de cerimonia do té. A peza está elaborada artesanalmente, procurando unha finura da madeira sen precedentes mediante técnicas artesanais maxistrais, baseándose unicamente en técnicas tradicionais de ensamblaxe de madeira, sen ningún compoñente metálico.

O Recoñecemento

Sobre o A' Design Award de Ouro

Zense Conxunto de Mesa e 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 Zense Conxunto de Mesa e 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. Zense Conxunto de Mesa e Cadeira crea intensos sentimentos de desexo, esperta a paixón, anima a creatividade e fascina.

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Propiedades Únicas: Zense is both a furniture to ritual instrument. Its transforming structure—crafted from impossibly slender wood members—orchestrates tea ceremony and calligraphy while inscribing cultural memory into space. Every operational motion (wood sliding, joinery clicking) becomes ceremonial act of all 5 senses from touch, to sound; every use converts rooms into heritage vessels. The exoskeleton's artisanal precision enforces ritual deliberation, making tradition tactile through:
Dimensións e Embalaxe: 1300mm x 550mm x 720mm. Fully handcrafted with (screwless) traditional wooden joinery techniques. Weight distribution of structures optimised to minimise profile of structural members into 30mmx30mm solid wood.
Etiquetas: Handcrafted, table, chair, set, upcycled, wood, traditional, joinery, asian, culture
Tecnoloxía de Produción: Handcrafted by master artisans using traditional Chinese joinery, the furniture set is composed of 553 upcycled timber components, each meticulously shaped to optimize weight distribution—resulting in a slender yet perfectly balanced structure. Analog iterations refined proportions without digital intervention, ensuring harmony between form and function. Magnets were discreetly chiseled into wooden housings, as the assembly relies entirely on wood-on-wood joinery, eliminating metal fasteners. Even its construction embodies ritual, merging vernacular craftsmanship with intentional, meditative precision.
Reto de Deseño: This project faced the dual challenge of reviving ancient Chinese joinery while pushing wood’s structural limits to unprecedented thinness—all without modern engineering aids. nternally, we grappled with fading craftsmanship traditions. Material constraints demanded upcycled wood with unpredictable grain behavior, while the absence of metal fasteners required perfect joinery precision. Production hinged on master artisans capable of such handwork that relied on sensory intuition alone.
Investigación: This project pursued the minimal threshold dimensions of wooden members while retaining structural integrity, guided solely by craftsmen who discern strength through fingertips. Each slender element was refined not by engineering calculations, but through generations of tactile material intelligence. Practitioners tested these components, their ceremonial movements revealing where rigidity needed to yield to grace.
Inspiración: Zense transforms Asian heritage into lived experience. This kinetic table merges tea ceremony and calligraphy through masterful woodcraft—its slender exoskeleton achieving structural elegance while enforcing ritual deliberation. Every interaction engages the senses, making tradition tactile rather than symbolic. Through material intelligence and embodied use, Zense bridges past and future, turning cultural memory into tangible, sensory encounters.
Duración do Proxecto: The project started in 2018 and was exhibited most notably DesignInspire 2019 and SUPERDESIGN SHOW (Superstudio Pi - Via Tortona 27 - Milan) in 2022, amongst other venues in Hong Kong and China across 2022-2025.
Fluxo de Operacións: Zense begins as a serene writing surface, but with a simple lift, its wooden top rises and locks into place, transforming into a tea ceremony platform. There are no buttons or complicated mechanisms; just smooth, deliberate motions that mirror the care of traditional rituals themselves. This motion forces mindfulness, and addresses all 5 sense of the body. Every interaction—the weight of the moving parts, the satisfying click of alignment is designed to make the past feel present and purposeful.