Cadeira Sella by Alvaro Wolmer is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Designatio Supellectilis Competition Category.
AesSupellex· 2022
Cadeira Sella
Client: Alvaro Wolmer
Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum Winner in Supellex Category
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About Cadeira Sella
Hoc supellectilis genus plus quam sella est, est etiam collectio exemplorum triginta quattuor generum lignorum, ex Brasilia et ex toto orbe terrarum; sella est in qua quis commode sedere potest et de diversitate huius naturalis opis discere. Sella ipsa quaestioni respondet quam artifex proximis triginta quinque annis saepe interrogatus est: Quod lignum hoc est?
The Recognition
About the Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum
Cadeira Sella victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aeneum, honoris multum aestimati formis egregiis, creandi ingenio, sollertia et acumine insignibus dati. Victores Aenei opera perita et mire creandi sunt, quae experientiam, imaginationem et solertiam auctorum suorum confirmant. Exspectatur Cadeira Sella rem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, notabiliter professionalem et novam fore. Haec forma Aeneo victa optimas consuetudines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae amplectitur et in cura minutiarum excellit. Cadeira Sella necessitates egregie explet, cupiditates tangit, sensus capit et curiositatem allicit.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- It is more than a chair, it is also a collection of samples of 34 wooden species; it's a chair one can learn about the diversity of this natural resource.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Chair: 82 cm high x 60 cm wide x 60 cm deep. Plywood Crate: 85 cm high x 64 cm wide x 64 cm deep
- Tags
- chair, wooden chair, fine furniture, fine woodworking, conceptual design
- Production Technology
- The chair is made in my woodworking shop, Alvaro Wolmer Movelaria Fina Ltda, by two fine woodworkers. They joined the shop 30 and 25 years ago. We use the basic machines to work with wood, plus a CNC router to engrave the woods' names. Each chair takes 140 hours of work to be completed.
- Design Challenge
- It is a very basic chair regarding the shape, and a very basic woodworking construction for a chair. The main purpose was to show the fine woods in their best and identify them.
- Research
- I have been collecting fine woods from Brazil and all over the world in the past 35 years. I always liked to mix different woods in my projects, mixing colors and textures. At a certain point I realized that, in general, people are not familiar with wooden names; that was the starting point to design a chair made of 34 wooden species and engrave their common and scientific names on each part of it.
- Inspiration
- I have been collecting fine Brazilian woods and fine woods from all over the world in the past 35 years. I always liked to mix different woods, colors and textures, in my projects. At a certain point I realized that, in general, people are not familiar with wooden names. That was my starting point to design a chair made of 34 wooden species and engrave their common and scientific names on each part of it.
- Project Duration
- The project started in January 2020 in Sao Paulo and ended also in Sao Paulo in October 2020.
- Operation Flow
- It's a confortable chair that same people just sit down and some people read the names and start a conversation about wood. It's very common also to see people recognizing a wood of a piece of furniture of their childhood; a wood that they didn't know its name, fond memories.
- Patents
- The design was registered in IAB - Instituto dos Arquitetos do Brasil.
- Team Members
- Designer: Alvaro Wolmer
Master Woodworker: Daniel Alberto Lavaroni
Master Woodworker: José de Deus Rocha - Image Credits
- All the photos were taken by Ding Musa.
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