Cotangens Cotangens - 屋外用家具コレクションは、 by Sara Kele is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 鉄賞 in ガーデン・アウトドア家具デザイン Competition Category.
鉄アウトドア家具· 2023
Cotangens Cotangens - 屋外用家具コレクションは、
by Sara Kele
Client: Sarakele Studio
A' Design Award 鉄賞 Winner in アウトドア家具 Category
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About Cotangens Cotangens - 屋外用家具コレクションは、
パンデミック後の時代までに、共同体の活動は屋外に大きく変化しました。 CoTangens はこの変化からインスピレーションを得た家具ファミリーで、屋内家具の美しさ、快適さ、実用性を屋外にもたらします。個人にとってもコミュニティにとっても、強い個性を持ちながらも無限の多様性を持ちます。フレッティ構造により、雰囲気を変えることなく、どんな自然環境にもフィットします。賢いモジュール化により、屋外のあらゆる状況に適応します。また、新しく開発された持続可能な素材のショーケースでもあります。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 鉄賞
Cotangens Cotangens - 屋外用家具コレクションは、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。Cotangens Cotangens - 屋外用家具コレクションは、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。Cotangens Cotangens - 屋外用家具コレクションは、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
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- CoTangens is a beautiful outdoor furniture collection with a graphic character. A fretty construction structure makes it fit any natural environment without changing its ambience. Clever modularity makes it adaptable to any situation of outdoors human coexistence. It’s also a showcase for newly developed sustainable materials, proving their endurance in the harshest environment: the outdoors.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Armchair: 800 x 800 x 730 mm
Armchair with storage table: 1140 x 800 x 730 mm
Sofa: 1600 x 800 x 730
Small table: 800 x 380 x 420 mm
Shelf: 800 x 320 x 600 mm
Chair: 620 x 620 x 800 mm
Lounge chair: 650 x 700 x 700 mm
Desk: 790 x 790 x 760 mm - Tags
- furniture design, outdoor furniture, sustainability, textile revolution, bananatex, product design, sustainable materials, geometric, outdoor
- Production Technology
- Long term - that is the motto of CoTangens production. A respect for nature, the use of sustainable materials, recycling and circularity are all important values for us. The high-quality materials withstand constant load, and the covers’ zip-fastened solution makes changing easy – whether for cleaning or changing the color. CoTangens was built to last in any kind of weather. The pillows are made of special outdoors material, waxed and water repellent. Bananatex is the world’s first durable, technical fabric made purely from the naturally grown Abacá banana plants. A perfect circular design product, long lasting and degradable at the end of the life cycle. The frames have been sintered for outdoors, with a special UV resistant powder. They are uni-molded, keeping water 100% out. The sitting surface materials are coconut and heterogeneous recycled foam.
- Design Challenge
- Working with Banantex material had its challenges, especially with the round pillow. The natural wax layer is much thicker, than a regular sewing shops is accustomed to. Wide research in sewing technologies and shops was conducted, and we ended up with strong and weatherproof solutions. Tests approved our decisions, but it took a leap of faith and commitment from both design and production sides.
- Research
- CoTangens was built to last in any kind of weather. The pillows are made of special outdoors material, waxed and water repellent. Bananatex is the world’s first durable, technical fabric made purely from the naturally grown Abacá banana plants. A perfect circular design product, long lasting and degradable at the end of the life cycle. The frames have been sintered for outdoors, with a special UV resistant powder. The sitting surface materials are coconut and heterogeneous recycled foam.
- Inspiration
- By the post-pandemic era, our communal activities have significantly shifted outdoors. CoTangens is a furniture family inspired by this shift, bringing the beauty, comfort and practicality of indoors furniture out to the sun. For the individual and the community alike, with strong character yet endless variability.
- Project Duration
- The project was created from September 2021 to March 2022 in Budapest and Tata cities in Hungary, within the framework of Hungarian Fashion & Design Agency's DesignLab incubator program - which aim is to connect manufacturers with designers in product development processes. In this project we developed the opportunity of using the Bananatex fabric outdoors with partnership of the Bananatex team.
- Operation Flow
- From exclusive environments to laid back chill-out bars, CoTangens works with a variety of man- made environments. Graceful and non-intrusive, yet its geometric forms coupled with their shadows create a modern, a graphic character.
The fretty, see-through construction makes way for the beauty nature, making the furniture fit any place without changing its ambience. The elements will harmonise with their carefully matched Earth tone color palette and structurally matching designs. - Patents
- Copyrights belong to Sara Kele, 2022
Patented. 008918635-0006/008918635-0011, Sára Kele, 2022. - Image Credits
- Image #1 : Janos Kmetyko
Image #2 : Janos Kmetyko
Image #3 : HFDA, Milan Racmolnar
Image #4 : Janos Kmetyko
Image #5 : Janos Kmetyko
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