Kodama Bar Stool Chèz Bar by Marshall Wollum

Kodama Bar Stool Chèz Bar by Marshall Wollum is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Bwonz in Dezayn Mèb Competition Category.

BwonzMèb· 2021

Kodama Bar Stool Chèz Bar

by Marshall Wollum

Client: Kodama Designs

A' Design Award Bwonz Winner in Mèb Category

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The Design

About Kodama Bar Stool Chèz Bar

Kodama Chèz Bar se yon chèz an bwa ki fèt pou itilize nan konte ak nan bar. Desen an suiv yon apwòch Japandi ki gen yon aparans solid ak òganik. Kontras ant bwa nwaye ak bwa pòmye mete aksan sou jwenti bwa orijinal yo, ki rete vizib. Konesans tradisyonèl nan travay bwa konbine ak yon machin CNC, sa ki pèmèt jwenti ki gen plis konpleksite ak presizyon. Chèz la mezire 45 cm nan lajè, 54 cm nan pwofondè ak 66 cm nan wotè. Non Kodama vle di lespri pyebwa a, e desen an rann omaj bwa kòm yon materyèl renouvlab.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Bwonz

Kodama Bar Stool Chèz Bar se yon ganyan A' Design Award Bwonz, yon rekonesans ki gen anpil prestij yo bay design ekselan ki make pa kreyativite, enjenyozite ak finès. Ganyan Bwonz yo se objè ki abil anpil e ki kreyatif nan fason ki frape, ki otantifye gwo eksperyans, imajinasyon ak debouyaj designer yo. Yo atann Kodama Bar Stool Chèz Bar pou se yon objè anpil moun estime, admire e renmen, ki pwofesyonèl e inovatè nan fason remakab. Design sa a ki ganyen A' Design Award Bwonz enkòpore pi bon pratik nan atizay, syans, design ak teknoloji, e li ekselan pou atansyon li bay detay. Kodama Bar Stool Chèz Bar satisfè bezwen yon fason espledid, li touche dezi, li chame santiman e li atire kiryozite.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: A subtle Japandi design with a grounded and organic aesthetic. The contrasting Walnut and Applewood highlight the stool's creative and original wood joinery. The Kodama Bar Stool is a blend of ancient techniques with modern technology to create a piece that will hopefully endure for generations, in both construction and design aesthetic.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 45cm, Depth 54cm, Height 66cm
Tags: Wood joinery, stool, furniture, autocad, fusion 360, cnc router, cnc machine
Production Technology: The challenge of this project was devising a method to program the powerful CNC router to delicately manifest the design through complex coding of the toolpaths and precision workholdings of the components on the machine. This innovative process has many more exciting years of refinement ahead as we are just beginning to open the door to a new era of parametric design and manufacturing that will allow human creativity to flourish with these new capabilities.
Design Challenge: This is a new field of manufacturing with little education opportunities available so I'm self-taught and continually making everything up as I go. I wake up every day feeling like the luckiest guy in the world to be on this creative adventure.
Inspiration: The word Kodama translates to the "spirit of the tree". The intent behind the Kodama Bar Stool is to pay tribute to wood, one of our world's most renewable materials, and to honor the tree that granted us its life's work.
The goal of this project was to combine the knowledge of traditional woodworking with a CNC router to accomplish joinery that was previously unobtainable in complexity and precision.
Project Duration: The project started in 2016 in the mountains of Colorado and was finished in Southern California in March 2019.
Operation Flow: Visible and honest wood joinery designed to hopefully endure through generations of daily use.