The Swing Chair Sedes by Jiangying Guo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum in Designatio Supellectilis Competition Category.
FerrumSupellex· 2022
The Swing Chair Sedes
Client: Jiangying Guo
Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum Winner in Supellex Category
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About The Swing Chair Sedes
Sella Oscillans est sedes ab oscillo inspirata. Consilium ad motum corporis respondet et interactionem dynamicam ad relaxationem et lusum creat. Sedile et dorsale flexibilia et accommodabilia sunt, ita ut positiones sedendi et motus praeferendos utentis sequantur. Angulus inter sedile et dorsale ex 120 ad 133 gradus mutari potest. Structura est cubus 61x61x61 centimetrorum. Lignum quercus ad compagem adhibetur, contraplacatum ad sedile et dorsale, et funiculus gossypii ad partes oscillantes. Funiculus asper frictionem cum ligno creat, quae motum moderatum et tutum servat.
The Recognition
About the Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum
The Swing Chair Sedes victor est Praemii A' Design Award Ferreum, honoris amplissimi formis bonis dati, quae postulatis professionalibus et industrialibus ab creationibus bene formatis exspectatis satisfaciunt. Victores Ferrei magnam peritiam, altam specializationem, intellectum periti et facultatem creandi auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur The Swing Chair Sedes creationem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, practicam et novam fore. Haec forma Ferreo victa optimas industriae consuetudines integrat et proprietates technicas idoneas, cum scientia et talento coniunctas, habet. The Swing Chair Sedes ob diligentiam suam honoratur et ad vitae qualitatem emendandam formatum est, ut mundum meliorem reddere iuvet.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Inspired by the swing, this chair aims to respond with human body movements and create a dynamic interaction with the users - for them to relax and play. The seat and backrest are flexible and adjustable in a way that they are able to follow users’ preferred sitting positions and their movements while sitting. It also has a minimal structure: seat and backrest supported by a simple frame (61x61x61cm), giving the seat floating and chair lightweight.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The chair is in a "perfect cube" structure: 61x61x61cm.
- Tags
- Chair, Sustainable, Playful, Moveable Seats, Swing
- Production Technology
- The material here I used Oak wood for the structure, plywood for the seat and backrest, cotton cord for the swing, and rubber screw to connect the backrest.
- Design Challenge
- The hardest part of this design is to control the level of movement, which is affected by the design as well as the material. Allowing too much movement would cause a user to fall off the chair. The thick cotton cord has rough texture and thus create good friction with the wood, in this way, it allows the seat to still create movements but in a controlled and safe way.
- Inspiration
- This chair is inspired by the swing. I want to incorporate the playfulness and movement of swing into a chair which is normally considered to have a fixed angle between seat and backrest.
- Project Duration
- This project is completed in Copenhagen in 2017; the duration of design and production took around 2 months.
- Operation Flow
- Both the seat and backrest are adjustable based on user's movement. The angle between the seat and backrest could be adjusted from 120 to 133 degree (please see the image above).
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