Argentum Supellex · 2024
Lotus Cathedra Hospitalis
- Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum 2024 in Supellex
- CLIENT: Ming-Li Chang
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 1,280,972
- Verification code 67A6FB8AAF · Verify this award
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About Lotus Cathedra Hospitalis
Lotus est cathedra hospitalis creata ut interpretationem formae traditionalis sellae Dynastiae Ming in spatium modernum proferat. Designatio e sella plicatili Dynastiae Ming inspirata est, quae facta erat ut duces nobiles gestum dignitatis in excursionibus servarent. Est proverbium Sinicum quod incrementum floris loti describit: e luto oritur, tamen immaculatus manet. Benignitas, humanitas, liberalitas puritasque cordis sunt omnes affectus quos cathedra exprimere sperat.
About the Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum
Lotus Cathedra Hospitalis victor est Praemii A' Design Award Argenteum, honoris eximie amplissimi formis summi generis, pulchris et conspicuis dati. Victores Argenti opera valde splendida et creandi ingenio praedita sunt, quae praestantem peritiam, talentum et acumen auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Lotus Cathedra Hospitalis opus mirabile, exemplare, valde professionale et penitus novum fore. Haec forma Argento victa inventum notabile et admiratum est, quod ad fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovendos confert. Lotus Cathedra Hospitalis creatio est, quam multi invident, quae cupiditates excitat, sensus bonos affert et admirationem miraculumque movet.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Lotus is a guest chair designed to bring-forth a translation of traditional Ming Dynasty chair design for a modern space. The design was inspired by a Ming Dynasty folding chair that was created to allow high-class generals to maintain a gesture of status during an outing. There’s a Chinese idiom that describes the growth of a lotus flower, out of the mud yet unstained. Kindness, warmth, generosity, and pureness of heart are all emotions the chair hopes to convey.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 530 mm x Depth 550 mm x height 728 mm x seat height 475 mm
- Tags
- Chair, Chinese, Wood, Joinery, Minimal
- Production Technology
- "Lotus" features an intersecting design with a unique lap joint and defined by a contrasting finish. This version of the chair is fully manufactured in China, structured with traditional Chinese furniture wood joinery methods, seamless, sturdy, and clean.
- Design Challenge
- Communicating with manufacturer through prototyping and developing the structural joinery.
- Inspiration
- Lotus is inspired bya very special chair from the Ming Dynasty. This was a folding chair design to be a gesture of status for someone of high government power when they’re on the go. What’s interesting is that this unique scenario resulted in a one of a kind design. The intersecting movement along with the archetype of a Chinese ceremonial chair is translated and captured through this new design. The result is an intersecting design with a unique lap joint and defined by a contrasting finish.
- Project Duration
- The project started as a design in October 2022 in Los Angeles and finished in March 2023 in Shanghai.
