Suite Stool Asento multifuncional by Yulong Zhang

Suite Stool Asento multifuncional by Yulong Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Prata in Deseño de Mobiliario Competition Category.

PrataMobiliario· 2020

Suite Stool Asento multifuncional

by Yulong Zhang

Client: Albert Zhang

A' Design Award de Prata Winner in Mobiliario Category

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The Design

About Suite Stool Asento multifuncional

Suite Stool é un conxunto de tres asentos deseñados para vivendas pequenas. As tres pezas encaixan entre si para formar unha unidade compacta e poden separarse para un uso independente. Dúas calquera das pezas tamén poden unirse, de xeito que poidan sentar unha, dúas ou tres persoas. Os asentos están feitos de contrachapado, que ofrece un soporte robusto, e as tres pezas córtanse dun único panel de madeira que mide 1,2 por 2,4 metros. A forma compacta permite unha embalaxe plana e unha montaxe rápida. Cada unidade mide 500 por 400 por 450 milímetros.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Prata

Suite Stool Asento multifuncional gañou o A' Design Award de Prata, un recoñecemento enormemente prestixioso outorgado a deseños de gama alta, fermosos e impresionantes. Os gañadores Prata son obras tremendamente brillantes e sumamente creativas que ilustran a pericia, o talento e a agudeza sobresaíntes dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que Suite Stool Asento multifuncional sexa unha obra marabillosa, escaparate de oficio, notablemente profesional e profundamente innovadora. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Prata é unha invención moi notable e admirada que beneficia e fai avanzar os límites da arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía. Suite Stool Asento multifuncional é unha creación moi envexada que esperta desexos, achega sentimentos positivos e prende asombro e marabilla.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Among the modern furniture stacked up to save space,most of them save space while wasting. To solve the issue of space and multifunction for consumers, Albert designed the three stools which can be used sepa-rately or as a whole,meanwhile, any two of the stools are able to combine to be used by one people or more. Based on manufacture and installation considerations, the stools have a compact shape for flat packaging and quick assembly.
Dimensions & Packaging: 500mm*400mm*450mm
Tags: Chair, Stool, Multifunctional, Furniture
Production Technology: The material is plywood, which provide very strong support for the stool.
And the three stool is made of a 1.2 meter in width and 2.4 meter in length wood block.
Design Challenge: It is so hard for designers to design a way to combine three chairs as one. The most common chair in the market in not suitable to fold. And he find the structure he used is a smart way to combine chairs, however, it may not as comfortable as users think it is. Therefore, Albert measured the distance of the small piece and do lots of experiment to find a balance between structure and user experience.
Research: Albert do a research among the famous chair and the new chair in the market. And Albert learn something from the old style chairs and he appreciate the chair that can be easily moved to another place as well as save space. As we know, in some area in China, the house is so experience for the young people. Therefore, Albert design Suite Stool to save place.
Inspiration: Nowadays, it esay to design huge things.However, Albert found that not everybody have space to place those huge products. And more and more people in China have to live in small room, who are pretty hard to have big furniture. What designers should design as a designer is to design things in a smart way while solving the main problem.Therefore, Albert design this new kind of stool to ensure that people have more place for other things.
Project Duration: The project started in November 2018 in Shanghai and finished in January 2019 in Shanghai, and was exhibited in 'Design Shanghai' in March 2019.
Operation Flow: The users can use this stool as a whole, or as three chairs. All users need to do is to pull out the stool and it can be separated to three parts. And they can combine any of the two stools to have a new stool, which make it available for one or two or three people to sit.
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Albert Zhang, Suite Stool, 2019
Image #2: Photographer Albert Zhang, Suite Stool, 2019
Image #3: Photographer Albert Zhang, Suite Stool, 2019
Image #4: Photographer Albert Zhang, Suite Stool, 2019
Image #5: Photographer Albert Zhang, Suite Stool, 2019