Brahma 명상 의자 by Ilya Legchatov is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 철상 in 가구 디자인 Competition Category.
철가구· 2022
Brahma 명상 의자
Client: Ilya Legchatov
A' Design Award 철상 Winner in 가구 Category
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About Brahma 명상 의자
브라흐마(Brahma)는 명상과 가부좌 자세로 앉기 위해 디자인된 의자입니다. 등받이는 허리 아래쪽을 받쳐주는 돌출부와 명확하게 설계된 곡률 및 경사를 갖추고 있어 별도의 쿠션이 필요하지 않습니다. 넓은 좌판은 다리를 교차했을 때 무릎이 좌판 안쪽에 머물 수 있도록 해줍니다. 프레임은 곡목 성형 합판, 폼 러버, 패브릭 커버링으로 제작되었으며, 다리는 원목 비치(너도밤나무)로 만들어졌습니다. 분리 가능한 다리는 네 개의 볼트로 프레임에 고정되어 의자가 가볍고 휴대하기 쉬운 상태를 유지합니다. 브라흐마는 명상을 현대적인 실내 공간 속에 독자적인 가구로 자리매김하게 합니다.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 철상
Brahma 명상 의자, 이 작품은 A' Design Award 철상 수상작으로, 잘 디자인된 창작물에 기대되는 전문적·산업적 요건을 충족하는 좋은 디자인에 수여되는 권위 있는 인정입니다. 철상 수상작은 창작자의 뛰어난 기술, 높은 전문성, 전문가다운 이해, 창의적 역량을 보여 줍니다. Brahma 명상 의자, 이 작품은 높이 평가받고 감탄과 사랑을 받는 창작물로서 실용적이고 혁신적일 것으로 기대됩니다. 이 철상 수상 디자인은 업계 모범 사례를 통합하며 노하우와 재능으로 연결된 유능한 기술적 특성을 갖추고 있습니다. Brahma 명상 의자, 이 작품은 철저함으로 존중받으며 삶의 질을 개선하여 세상을 더 나은 곳으로 만들도록 디자인되었습니다.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Brahma is a chair for meditation and lovers of sitting cross-legged. Once the designer's personal meditation experience had dawned him on with the need for a special chair and its parameters. The uniqueness of the chair is in the ergonomics, which allows you to sit motionless for a long time in the lotus position, as well as in the fact that meditation as a phenomenonis given a worthy place of a self-sufficient piece of furniture for the first time in a modern interior.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- W880 mm D720 mm H960 mm
- Tags
- chair, Brahma chair, meditation chair, meditation, yoga
- Production Technology
- The chair was designed to be light weighted, easily assembled and portable. The frame consists of bent-glued plywood, foam rubber and upholstery. The legs are collapsible, assembled on 4 bolts. The material is masive beech. The legs are attached to the frame by 4 bolts.
- Design Challenge
- Creative challenge: A piece of furniture is needed specifically for meditation. In addition to its purely applied significance, such a subject has a social perspective to bring the phenomenon of meditation from the level of a suspicious hobby, overgrown with a pile of mossy prejudices, to the level of a prestigious universally recognized practice of modern educated people who are healthy in body, mind and soul.
- Research
- 15 years ago, the designer got interested in meditation as an ancient oriental self-discovery method. In purpose of practical research, for a number of years he's been visiting various meditation centers, including retreats with a Hindu spiritual guru.
As a result of the research, the designer came to the conclusion about universal benefits of meditation as a natural way of self-development. It inspired him to create a piece of furniture specifically for long and comfortable meditation.
Offering a meditation chair as an integral element of everyday interior, the designer aims to shift meditation from an exotic activity of marginal social groups to a daily practice for physical, psychological and spiritual self-development. - Inspiration
- In the world of stress one looks for ways to clean up environment, heal the body and calm mind. It leads to meditation, for which home furniture is barely fit due to the armrests, the slope of a backrest, the width of a seat, and the heap of blankets and pillows on the floor alarms guests.
My own practice led me to settings of an ideal chair:
wide seat under knees
comfy back bend - no extra pillows
fine shape above the floor level.
Thus was born a ultimate item of modern interior. - Project Duration
- The project had started in July 2017.
It was exhibited at SaloneSatellite WorldWide Moscow 2017. Then the chair became the winner of the National Award "Russian Cabriole" and the winner of competition in the field of industrial design "Art-League" in 2018.
After that the chair was exhibited at the Salone del Mobile.Milano.Moscow 2018 and 2019 at the stand of Elle Decoration, the Venice Design Biennale DESIGN.VE. in 2018, Salone del Mobile. Milano 2018 in the Lambrate Design District, Moscow Design Week 2018, MAISON&OBJET PARIS 2019 and other smaller exhibitions. - Operation Flow
- The specificity of this chair is its ergonomics, which allows one to sit motionless in meditation for a long time. The whole point is in the form of a back with a protrusion under the lower back. Years of practice convinced the designer in the convenience of a certain bend and tilt of the backrest, which allows one to sit using no additional pillows. Also he added to this bend a wide seat that allows crossed legged sitting with knees not stuck out beyond the seat-plate.
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