Chair of Soul Rooj Zaum by Wen Jenq Cherng

Chair of Soul Rooj Zaum by Wen Jenq Cherng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Tooj in Tsim Rooj Tog Competition Category.

ToojRooj Tog· 2020

Chair of Soul Rooj Zaum

by Wen Jenq Cherng

Client: Cherng's Work

A' Design Award Tooj Winner in Rooj Tog Category

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The Design

About Chair of Soul Rooj Zaum

Ntawv Phau: Rooj Zaum Ntsuj Plig yog ib lub rooj zaum tsim los txhawb lub cev nyob rau hauv ib tug qauv sawv ncaj thiab so haus. Qhov siab ntawm lub chaw zaum, lub sab qab ncauj nyob ntawm duav thiab ob sab tso caj npab pab nqa lub hnyav ntawm sab saum lub cev. Lub sab qab ncauj uas nkhaus me me raws li lub cev daim duab thiab pab txo qhov nqus tswm hauv xub pwg, caj dab, duav, thiab cov txhais tes taw. Ming Dynasty cov khoom siv qub qub yog qauv rau cov kev ntsuas yooj yim no. Ebony ntoo los ntawm Sulawesi yog cov qauv tseem ceeb, koom nrog cov ceg ua ntawm tooj liab thiab lub chaw zaum ua ntawm daim tawv Nappa xim ntsuab. Mortise thiab tenon kev txuas nyob ua ke rau txhua yam khoom, thiab lub qauv arc txuas ob txhais ceg mus rau lub chaw zaum.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Tooj

Chair of Soul Rooj Zaum yog tus yeej ntawm A' Design Award Tooj, ib qho kev lees paub muaj meej mom heev uas muab rau cov qauv tsim tshwj xeeb uas txawv los ntawm kev tsim tshiab, kev txawj tsim thiab kev ntse. Cov neeg yeej Tooj yog cov khoom muaj txuj ci heev thiab tsim tshiab heev uas ua pov thawj txog kev paub ntau, kev xav thiab kev txawj ua ntawm cov kws tsim qauv. Chair of Soul Rooj Zaum xav tias yuav yog ib qho khoom uas neeg hwm, qhuas thiab hlub, uas tshaj lij heev thiab tsim tshiab. Cov qauv tsim yeej A' Design Award Tooj no siv cov kev coj ua zoo tshaj plaws ntawm kev kos duab, kev tshawb fawb, kev tsim qauv thiab thev naus laus zis thiab zoo heev vim nws saib xyuas cov ntsiab lus. Chair of Soul Rooj Zaum ua tau raws li cov kev xav tau zoo kawg, kov cov kev xav, ntxias cov kev xav thiab txhawb kev xav paub.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Chair of Soul is my entry point of use as a starting point for design thinking. Since I have long been practicing meditation for destressing and calming my body and mind, I am hoping the design of the chair could reflect a completely relaxed condition for the body. Overall design is thereby focused on its function, where the user would sit upright on the chair and his or her upper-body weight be perfectly supported through the height of the chair, the backrest at the waist, and the armrests.
Dimensions & Packaging: When producing a hereditary chair, what is more important than ensuring its functions is finding ways to incorporate visual aesthetics. I am using Chinese traditional Ming Dynasty style furniture as my blueprint, borrowing its elegant and simple exterior design and principles on proportion. And through enhancement of overall structural system, a unique arc structure is used as the support that connects the legs and the seat of the chair.
Tags: Product, Chair, Health, Oriental, Furniture
Production Technology: The curvature of the slightly bulging backrest embraces the body; this waist-supporting chair design offers supports for the human body, so that tensions around user’s shoulders, neck, waist, and limbs would all be relieved–user would be welcomed with a comforting sensation similar to a hug.
Design Challenge: Pairing the material with the metallic copper tube of the legs and the purple cow Nappa leather seat, harmony, elegance, stability, and sustainability are incorporated altogether to bring forth a chair that user could converse with, the chair I dub – Chair of Soul.
Research: A chair that is aimed to improve the users health would need to value the choice of material as equally important as the design that would fit precisely to human body proportions. I have especially chosen the ebony produced in Sulawesi, Indonesia as the chair’s main structure element; its fine material and deep-black colored lines flawlessly interpret the sophistication that the chair should exhibit.
Inspiration: We have always had different thoughts in regards to chairs. This piece of furniture with a long history of evolution has always been deemed irreplaceable in home interior. How should a classic chair, which one hopes to pass down for generations and stay eternally quintessential, be presented?
Project Duration: The project started in December 2016 and finished in December 2018.
Operation Flow: The design is further complemented by the mortice and tenon joint as the reinforcing linkage between parts, bringing betterment to the complex composition found in old-fashioned traditional furniture. In addition to strengthening the chair’s mechanics system, a simplistic and spiritual appearance is thereby created for the chair.
Team Members: Designer: Wen-Jenq Cherng