Zene Rooj Zaum Noj Mov by John G Williams

Zene Rooj Zaum Noj Mov by John G Williams is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2018 A' Design Award Hlau in Tsim Rooj Tog Competition Category.

HlauRooj Tog· 2018

Zene Rooj Zaum Noj Mov

by John G Williams

Client: John G Williams

A' Design Award Hlau Winner in Rooj Tog Category

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The Design

About Zene Rooj Zaum Noj Mov

Lub rooj zaum noj mov Zene tau nqa nws txoj kev txhawb siab los ntawm cov ntoo hauv cheeb tsam thiab tsim qauv Danish Modern. Cov qhov rooj ntoo ash sib sib zog nqus yog yooj yim thiab khov kho thiab txhawb cov chaw zaum ntoo tawv thiab lub rov qab uas zoo li ntab saum lub qhov rooj. Cov ntsug curved ntawm lub chaw zaum/rov qab tsis yog tsim los ntawm kev txav ntoo tab sis los ntawm kev koom ua ke thiab tsim cov ntoo tawv khov. Ua ib series, cov qhov rooj ntoo ash muab kev sib koom ua ke, thiab cov ntaub ntawv hauv zos sib txawv uas raug xaiv rau cov chaw zaum/rov qab tsim kom muaj kev txaus siab thiab tsim nyog.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Hlau

Zene Rooj Zaum Noj Mov yog tus yeej ntawm A' Design Award Hlau, ib qho kev lees paub muaj meej mom uas muab rau cov qauv tsim zoo uas ua tau raws li cov kev xav tau ntawm kev ua haujlwm thiab kev lag luam uas xav tau los ntawm cov khoom tsim zoo. Cov neeg yeej Hlau qhia txog kev txawj loj, kev paub tshwj xeeb siab, kev nkag siab ntawm cov kws tshaj lij thiab lub peev xwm tsim ntawm cov neeg tsim. Zene Rooj Zaum Noj Mov xav tias yuav yog ib qho khoom tsim uas neeg hwm, qhuas thiab hlub uas siv tau thiab tsim tshiab. Cov qauv tsim yeej A' Design Award Hlau no sib xyaw cov kev coj ua zoo tshaj plaws ntawm kev lag luam thiab muaj cov yam ntxwv siv tshuab txawj ntse txuas nrog kev paub thiab txuj ci. Zene Rooj Zaum Noj Mov tau txais kev hwm vim nws tag nrho thiab tsim los muab kev txhim kho rau lub neej uas pab ua rau lub ntiaj teb zoo dua.

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