Curved Szék by Beijing Forestry University

Curved Szék by Beijing Forestry University is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Ezüstdíj A' Design Award in Bútortervezés Competition Category.

EzüstBútor· 2025

Curved Szék

by Beijing Forestry University

Client: Beijing Forestry University

Ezüstdíj A' Design Award Winner in Bútor Category

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The Design

About Curved Szék

A Curved egy természetes indonéz rattanból készült szék. A dizájn a hagyományos rattanfonás kézműves mesterségét ötvözi a modern esztétikával. A lágyan ívelt rattanvonalak a hagyományos kínai tusfestmények hegyeit és folyóvizeit idézik. A forma kézi munkával alakul ki az anyagválasztás, gőzölés, meleghajlítás, formázás, csiszolás és festés során. A kartámasz magassága, a lábak stabilitása, valamint az ülőfelület és a háttámla ívei ergonómiai tanulmányokon alapulnak, és megtámasztják a derekat és a hátat. A szék mérete 630 x 850 x 900 milliméter, és beltéri, valamint kültéri környezetbe egyaránt illik.

The Recognition

About the Ezüstdíj A' Design Award

Curved Szék az Ezüstdíj A' Design Award győztese, óriási presztízsű elismerés a csúcskategóriás, lenyűgöző és impozáns dizájnoknak. Az ezüstgyőztesek rendkívül ragyogó és nagyon kreatív művek, amelyek szemléltetik tervezőik kiemelkedő szakértelmét, tehetségét és éleslátását. Curved Szék-tól azt várják, hogy csodálatos, mintaszerű mű legyen, amely figyelemre méltóan professzionális és mélyen innovatív. Ez az Ezüstdíj A' Design Award kitüntetést elnyert dizájn igen figyelemre méltó, csodált találmány, amely szolgálja, és előre viszi a művészet, a tudomány, a dizájn és a technológia határait. Curved Szék széles körben irigyelt alkotás, amely felkelti a vágyakat, pozitív érzéseket hoz, és csodálatot és ámulatot gyújt.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This aesthetically pleasing and practical curved chair is made of understated, pliable natural rattan. It subtly marries traditional rattan weaving craftsmanship with modern aesthetics to highlight the liveliness and grace of mountains and water through smooth curved rattan, conveying a peaceful attitude towards life and a profound philosophy of life. Moreover, the chair designed based on ergonomics improves comfort of use while ensuring visual appeal.
Dimensions & Packaging: 630mm*850mm*900mm
Tags: rattan weaving craftsmanship, modern design, natural material, high mountains and flowing water, an integration of traditional and modern elements
Production Technology: This chair adopts premium Indonesian rattan that is waterproof, durable, and pliable with a soft luster and unique textures, achieving a refined style and rich visual effects. The superb techniques are used in material selection, steaming, hot bending, shaping, polishing, painting and other multiple manual processes, which equip each finished product with delicate details, a comfortable touch, and good load bearing performance, bringing visual and tactile enjoyment for a better user experience.
Design Challenge: The challenge was how to integrate the natural material, traditional craftsmanship, and modern aesthetics. To address that, the design team, breaking away from stereotyped designs in rattan furniture, has created a new rattan chair form by using minimalistic, dynamic curves to mimic the soft and graceful brushstrokes in Chinese landscape paintings. The product, while pursuing visual appeal, takes into account comfort and stability, striking a balance between aesthetics and functionality.
Research: Rattan is pliable and expressive. Thus, rattan chairs can showcase natural flowing dynamism through the ingenious combination of rattan lines. This product marries traditional rattan weaving craftsmanship with modern design concepts, which utilizes the natural material to reproduce the ethereal mountains and water in Chinese ink paintings. As a result, it achieves a simple yet elegant aesthetic, able to harmonize with various indoor and outdoor environments.
Inspiration: The chair, inspired by high mountains and flowing water in traditional Chinese ink paintings, utilizes understated, pliable natural rattan to outline rolling mountains and flowing water through smooth curves, bringing to mind a lively, graceful, and magnificent scene of mountains and water intertwined. This not only creates a serene atmosphere for users to relax, but also embodies a perfect fusion of cultural inheritance and modern innovation.
Project Duration: The project started in Beijing in January 2024 and completed in June 2024.
Operation Flow: The rattan chair prioritizes user experience and makes optimization based on ergonomics. It features fluid lines and is meticulously polished to offer a delicate, smooth touch. The height of the armrests, the stability of the legs, and the curvatures of the seat and the backrest have all undergone numerous tests. In this way, the chair can perfectly fit the human body and provide excellent support for the waist and back, while also boasting high stability, ensuring a comfortable experience.
Team Members: GongWei