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Stagione Transformuojama kėdė by Nikolaos Karintzaidis

Stagione Transformuojama kėdė by Nikolaos Karintzaidis is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Sidabrinis apdovanojimas A' Design Award in Baldų dizainas Competition Category.


SidabrinisBaldai· 2024

Stagione Transformuojama kėdė

by Nikolaos Karintzaidis

Client: Porada

Sidabrinis apdovanojimas A' Design Award Winner in Baldai Category

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The Design

About Stagione Transformuojama kėdė

Pasižymėdama tekančiomis, natūralaus kraštovaizdžio įkvėptomis formomis, ši transformuojama ir aplinkai draugiška kėdė suteikia jausmą būti gamtos apkabintam. Lengvai transformuojama iš kėdės į fotelį, ji atspindi sąveikos su gamta ciklus, siekiančius susieti žmones su jų aplinka. Perteikdama laiko tėkmės idėją, ji kuria dialogą tarp žmogaus kūrinių ir gamtos, kuris reiškia jų sambūvį, formuodama ryšį su mumis supančiu pasauliu.

The Recognition

About the Sidabrinis apdovanojimas A' Design Award

Stagione Transformuojama kėdė laimėjo Sidabrinį apdovanojimą A' Design Award, nepaprastai prestižinį pripažinimą, skiriamą aukščiausios klasės, puikiems ir įspūdingiems dizainams. Sidabro laureatai yra itin puikūs ir labai kūrybingi darbai, rodantys jų kūrėjų išskirtinę kompetenciją, talentą ir įžvalgumą. Tikimasi, kad Stagione Transformuojama kėdė bus nuostabus, pavyzdinis, labai profesionalus ir giliai novatoriškas kūrinys. Šis Sidabriniu apdovanojimu įvertintas dizainas yra žymus, žavimas išradimas, padedantis plėsti meno, mokslo, dizaino ir technologijų ribas. Stagione Transformuojama kėdė yra kūrinys, kuriam daugelis pavydi, žadinantis troškimus, teikiantis teigiamų jausmų ir sukeliantis nuostabą bei stebėjimąsi.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
Recipient of Porada International Design Award, the Seasons Chair captures the reminiscence of time passing in its sculptural shape. Suggestive of leaf formations, the fabric cushioning supplements chair’s main framing through overlapping layers providing elastic support. Surrounding the user and extending as soft arms, nature becomes design tool responding to human body.
Dimensions & Packaging
With the embracing aspect of its conformation, design is strongly allusive of plant growth, expressing the spirit of the wood it is curved from. Furniture's framework construction incorporates organic curving, instilling it with a certain sculptural quality that surrounds human figure and is made of solid canaletta walnut wood. Chair dimensions are 92 x 60 x 54 cm.
Tags
wood, sustainable, recycling, transformative, flexible, environment, seasons
Production Technology
The upholstery is attached on the frame with the use of magnets, allowing the shape to be modified and personalised reflecting passing of time registered in natural elements. Removable padding is made of textured hemp, an environmentally friendly and sustainable alternative to cotton which is 100% plant derived, extremely durable and inherently flame retardant, initiating the tactile interaction with the user.
Design Challenge
Having as primary concern the emotional connection between the object and its user, the aim in designing is to establish a creative dialogue among humanmade and natural. Maintaining a sense of the organic while altering its appearance, design is giving birth to stylized and distinguishing features. Transforming into design object, the creative challenge materializes a piece of utilitarian purpose finding the balance along its dimensions and functionality.
Research
Conveying the material attributes by emphasising qualities of wooden manufacture, a sense of the organic is expressed in composition as fluid forms establish a visual rhythm through the graphic lines of the silhouette. Framework is made of solid canaletta walnut wood. Having in mind always the use of low environmental impact solutions, wood is coated with low VOC finishes and Bio Shield natural oil finishes, in order to reveal the textural qualities of wood construction.
Inspiration
Employing design as a way of storytelling by introducing natural constituents into manufactured forms, Stagione armchair captures the essence of change developing on the emotional connection between object and user. Drawing from childhood memories, playing and relaxing surrounded by landscape, formation replicates the feeling of comfort by sinking in leaf pile.
Project Duration
The project was completed in 2023.
Operation Flow
Forging a deeper link with scenery and visualising changing of seasons, successive layers replicate color palette of leaves that obtain various shades, echoing their different tones as cycles of change embrace the person. Like the tree shedding its leaves, armchair can alter appearance by removing its upholstery configuration, similar to plants separating from their foliage. This reveals the wood structure evocative of tree branches, bringing nature to interior space.
Image Credits
Studio Niko Kapa

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