Kuan アームチェア by Fnji Ltd - Frank Chou is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 鉄賞 in 家具デザイン Competition Category.
鉄家具· 2022
Kuan アームチェア
Client: FNJI x Frank Chou
A' Design Award 鉄賞 Winner in 家具 Category
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About Kuan アームチェア
Kuanは、現代の住空間のためにデザインされたアームチェアです。構造はシンプルで飾り気がなく、メタルとウールの張地を組み合わせています。座面のボリューム、フレームの描くライン、そして実体と空間のコントラストが、東洋思想の持つ控えめな趣を映し出しています。カバーには輸入ウール生地を用い、伝統的な加工によって安定させることで、なめらかな表面と優れた耐摩耗性・耐毛玉性を実現しました。密度の異なるスポンジを層状に組み合わせることで、快適な座り心地を生み出しています。Kuanはさまざまな張地素材から選ぶことができます。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 鉄賞
Kuan アームチェアは、よく設計された創造物に期待される専門的・産業的要件を満たす優れたデザインに授与される、権威ある評価である A' Design Award 鉄賞の受賞作品です。鉄賞の受賞作品は、制作者の高い技量、高度な専門性、専門家としての理解、創造的な能力を示しています。Kuan アームチェアは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される、実用的で革新的な創造物であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 鉄賞を受賞したデザインは、業界のベストプラクティスを統合し、ノウハウと才能に結びついた有能な技術的特性を備えています。Kuan アームチェアは、その徹底ぶりで尊敬され、世界をより良い場所にするための生活の質の向上をもたらすよう設計されています。
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Kuan Chair represents a style of contemporary oriental manner. The structure of this chair is simple and unpretentious. With high quality metal and wool materials, Kuan Chair also reveals the bywords for elegance and wisdom. The different feelings experienced by the volume of its seat, the lines of its structure, and the contrast between substance and emptiness, almost shows the reserved thoughts in Oriental philosophy. It is available with different covering materials.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 690 mm x 735 mm x 670 mm
- Tags
- timeless, contrast, oriental, experimental
- Production Technology
- Kuan Chair adopts Italian brand imported wool fabric, which is stabilized by traditional process to obtain specific surface effect, giving smooth and soft hand feeling, and can achieve excellent resistance to pilling and wear resistance.
- Design Challenge
- The challenge could be how to explore the possibility of future living through design, which requires a deep understanding of the living status of people and the culture background that different from the others. Also, as part of daily life, chair plays a close role with people, which correspond with their living habits and personality.
- Research
- Kuan Chair is a new experimental series design by Frank Chou for furniture brand Fnji. It is vested diversified color and outline, meanwhile added in plenty of software and metal element. It contains the modern oriental ideology, molding the pioneer concept of exploring the ability of Chinese future lifestyle.
- Inspiration
- Kuan Chair is one of the pieces Frank Chou designed for FNJI. It is more free and agility in design, aim at modern and young generation, fusing contemporary design language, simple but warm, elegant and timeless. It contains the modern oriental ideology, molding the pioneer concept of exploring the ability of Chinese future lifestyle.
- Project Duration
- Kuan Chair was designed and produced in 2018.
- Operation Flow
- Cloth cover to take tight package process, soft package body form three-dimensional distinct, cloth surface flat fit, using multiple layers of different density of sponge combination filling to achieve a comfortable sitting feeling.
- Team Members
- Designer: Frank Chou
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