Zene जेवणाची कदेल by John G Williams is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2018 A' Design Award लोह पुरस्कार in फर्निचर डिझायन Competition Category.
लोहफर्निचर· 2018
Zene जेवणाची कदेल
Client: John G Williams
A' Design Award लोह पुरस्कार Winner in फर्निचर Category
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The Design
About Zene जेवणाची कदेल
झेने जेवणाची कदेल आपलें प्रेरण देशी लांकूड आनी डॅनिश मॉडर्न डिझायना कडल्यान घेता. हळुवायेच्या ॲश फ्रेमी सादे आनी मजबूत आसात आनी हार्डवूडाच्या बसका आनी फाटी आदार दितात, ज्यो फ्रेमाचेर तरतल्यावरी दिसतात. बसका/फाटींचे वक्र आकार लांकूड वांकडावन तयार केल्ले नात, बगर घट्ट हार्डवूड लांकडाक जोडून आनी आकार दिवन तयार केल्ले आसात. एका मालिकेवरी हळुवायेच्यो ॲश फ्रेमी एकसंधपण दितात, आनी बसका/फाटींखातीर वेंचिल्ले वेगवेगळे थळावे साहित्य रुची आनी संबंधितता निर्माण करतात.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award लोह पुरस्कार
Zene जेवणाची कदेल ही A' Design Award लोह पुरस्काराची विजेती आसा, बऱ्या रितीन रचल्ल्या निर्मितींकडल्यान अपेक्षित व्यावसायिक आनी औद्योगिक गरजो पुराय करपी बऱ्या रचनांक दिवपी प्रतिष्ठीत मान्यताय. लोह विजेते तांच्या निर्मात्यांचें व्हड कौशल्य, उच्च विशेषज्ञताय, तज्ञाची समज आनी सर्जनशील क्षमता दाखयतात. Zene जेवणाची कदेल ही खूब मान मेळपी, कौतुक जावपी आनी जिव्हाळ्याची, व्यावहारीक आनी नाविन्यपूर्ण निर्मिती जावंक जाय अशी अपेक्षा आसा. हे लोह पुरस्कार जिखिल्ले रचन उद्योगांतले उत्कृष्ट सराव एकठांय करता आनी ज्ञान आनी प्रतिभेन जोडिल्ले सक्षम तांत्रिक गुण आसपी आसा. Zene जेवणाची कदेल परिपूर्णतायेक लागून मानाक पात्र आसा आनी जिणेचो दर्जो सुदारून संवसार चड बरो करपाखातीर रचल्ल्यान आसा.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This series of dining chairs have American ash frames and showcase different hardwood timbers for the seat/backrest combinations.
The chairs draw on the ancient art of 'coopering' or how oak barrels are made for fermentation purposes. The curved forms of the seat/backrest are not formed by bending but rather by joining and shaping solid hardwood timber.
The chair strives to be very strong and beautiful. In short: Zene -
elegant, comfortable and dependable. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 515mm wide x 570mm deep x 890mm high
seat: 515mm wide x 390mm deep
back:515mm wide x 200mm high - Tags
- zene, dining chair, south africa, hardwood, curved, cooper, danish modern, minimalist
- Production Technology
- The Zene design evolved over a number of years. The starting point was probably a fascination with the art of coopering and how this has been applied to furniture design. Building the segmented seat and backrests took some practice to perfect, as did the development of custom modifications to standard workshop tools to shape and finish the smoothly shaped forms.
- Design Challenge
- Building the coopered seat/backrests was challenging as it required careful attention to the compression forces on the material and how best to achieve high compression without causing the seats to 'implode'.
Shaping the rough seats into finely finished and smooth curves required considerable re-working of the custom tooling to achieve the desired results - Research
- Danish modern designs were studied and absorbed to consider different ways of rendering the frame, and its relationship to the seat, and to think through the spatial relationship of the seat to the backrest.
Web search was used to think about typical dimensions for the seat but in the end prototyping proved most fun. - Inspiration
- The beauty grain and colour of indigenous African timber was a key aesthetic inspiration for this project. The more technical inspiration for the overall work, including the frame design came from iconic designers such as Hans J Wegner (for example the CH20 Elbow Chair). The coopering technique was inspired by Ontario furniture designer Adrian Ferrazzutti.
- Project Duration
- The first prototype was conceived in Johannesburg in 2007. It was slowly refined as background task over 10 years, and the first set of 6 chairs was produced in 2017
- Operation Flow
- Zene is designed mainly for use at the dining table and is designed for extended dining comfort.
- Patents
- no patents pending
- Team Members
- John G Williams: designer, craftsman
- Image Credits
- all images by the designer: John G Williams
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