Zene Kujerar Cin Abinci by John G Williams

Zene Kujerar Cin Abinci by John G Williams is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2018 Kyautar A' Design Award ta Baƙin Ƙarfe in Ƙirar Kayan Ɗaki Competition Category.

Baƙin ƘarfeKayan Ɗaki· 2018

Zene Kujerar Cin Abinci

by John G Williams

Client: John G Williams

Kyautar A' Design Award ta Baƙin Ƙarfe Winner in Kayan Ɗaki Category

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The Design

About Zene Kujerar Cin Abinci

Kujerar cin abinci ta Zene ta samo wahayinta ne daga itacen ƙasa da ƙirar Danish Modern. Firam ɗin ash mai sauƙi na da sauƙi kuma masu ƙarfi, suna ɗaukar wuraren zama da gadaje na baya waɗanda aka yi da itace mai ƙarfi, waɗanda suke kama da suna shawagi a kan firam ɗin. Siffofin lanƙwasa na wurin zama/gadon baya ba a samar da su ta hanyar lanƙwasa itace ba, sai dai ta hanyar haɗawa da tsara itace mai ƙarfi. A matsayin jerin, firam ɗin ash mai sauƙi suna ba da haɗin kai, kuma zaɓin daban-daban na kayan gida da aka zaɓa don wuraren zama/gadaje na baya suna haifar da sha'awa da dacewa.

The Recognition

About the Kyautar A' Design Award ta Baƙin Ƙarfe

Zanen Zene Kujerar Cin Abinci ya lashe Kyautar A' Design Award ta Baƙin Ƙarfe, wata karramawa mai daraja da ake bai wa kyawawan zane-zane waɗanda ke cika buƙatun ƙwararru da masana'antu da ake tsammani daga ƙirƙire-ƙirƙire da aka tsara da kyau. Waɗanda suka lashe kyautar Baƙin Ƙarfe suna nuna babban ƙwarewa, ƙwarewa ta musamman, fahimtar ƙwararru da ikon ƙirƙira na masu ƙirƙirar su. Ana sa ran zanen Zene Kujerar Cin Abinci ya zama ƙirƙira da ake girmamawa sosai, ake sha'awa da ƙauna wacce ke da amfani kuma mai sababbin abubuwa. Wannan zane da ya lashe Kyautar A' Design Award ta Baƙin Ƙarfe yana haɗa mafi kyawun ayyukan fannin kuma yana da halayen fasaha masu cancanta da ke da alaƙa da sanin yadda da baiwa. Ana girmama zanen Zene Kujerar Cin Abinci saboda cikakkiyar kulawarsa kuma an tsara shi don ba da ingantuwar rayuwa da ke taimakawa wajen mai da duniya wuri mafi kyau.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This series of dining chairs have American ash frames and showcase different hardwood timbers for the seat/backrest combinations.

The chairs draw on the ancient art of 'coopering' or how oak barrels are made for fermentation purposes. The curved forms of the seat/backrest are not formed by bending but rather by joining and shaping solid hardwood timber.

The chair strives to be very strong and beautiful. In short: Zene -
elegant, comfortable and dependable.
Dimensions & Packaging: 515mm wide x 570mm deep x 890mm high
seat: 515mm wide x 390mm deep
back:515mm wide x 200mm high
Tags: zene, dining chair, south africa, hardwood, curved, cooper, danish modern, minimalist
Production Technology: The Zene design evolved over a number of years. The starting point was probably a fascination with the art of coopering and how this has been applied to furniture design. Building the segmented seat and backrests took some practice to perfect, as did the development of custom modifications to standard workshop tools to shape and finish the smoothly shaped forms.
Design Challenge: Building the coopered seat/backrests was challenging as it required careful attention to the compression forces on the material and how best to achieve high compression without causing the seats to 'implode'.
Shaping the rough seats into finely finished and smooth curves required considerable re-working of the custom tooling to achieve the desired results
Research: Danish modern designs were studied and absorbed to consider different ways of rendering the frame, and its relationship to the seat, and to think through the spatial relationship of the seat to the backrest.
Web search was used to think about typical dimensions for the seat but in the end prototyping proved most fun.
Inspiration: The beauty grain and colour of indigenous African timber was a key aesthetic inspiration for this project. The more technical inspiration for the overall work, including the frame design came from iconic designers such as Hans J Wegner (for example the CH20 Elbow Chair). The coopering technique was inspired by Ontario furniture designer Adrian Ferrazzutti.
Project Duration: The first prototype was conceived in Johannesburg in 2007. It was slowly refined as background task over 10 years, and the first set of 6 chairs was produced in 2017
Operation Flow: Zene is designed mainly for use at the dining table and is designed for extended dining comfort.
Patents: no patents pending
Team Members: John G Williams: designer, craftsman
Image Credits: all images by the designer: John G Williams