Flip Tūru Panoni by Niko Kapa is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Rino in Hoahoa Taputapu Competition Category.
RinoTaputapu· 2025
Flip Tūru Panoni
by Niko Kapa
Client: Snk
A' Design Award Rino Winner in Taputapu Category
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About Flip Tūru Panoni
I runga i te mātāpono o te whakangāwari rawa me te māori o te āhua, ko te kounga hoahoa e pā ana ki ngā kōpiko me ngā rārangi āhuahanga e puta mai ai te tūhononga o ngā wāhanga rerekē e tautoko katoa ana i te mahi. Ka taea e te hoahoa te neke haere o te tūru ki ngā horopaki rerekē me te whakautu ki ngā āhua me ngā hiahia o te kaiwhakamahi, nā te mea ka taea te panoni mā te huri noa iho. Kāore he mea kau, ā, ka mahi tahi ngā huānga motuhake hei hanga i tētahi hanganga māmā, engari urupū rawa.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Rino
Ko Flip Tūru Panoni te toa o te A' Design Award Rino, he whakaaetanga whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa pai e whakatutuki ana i ngā hiahia ngaio me te ahumahi e tūmanakohia ana mai i ngā mahi kua hoahoatia pai. Ko ngā toa Rino e whakaatu ana i te pukenga nui, te tohungatanga teitei, te māramatanga mātanga me te kaha auaha o ō rātou kaihanga. E tūmanakohia ana ko Flip Tūru Panoni he mahi whakanuia, whakamīharotia, aroha nui, he whaihua, he auaha hoki. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Rino e whakakotahi ana i ngā tikanga pai rawa o te ahumahi, ā, he āhuatanga hangarau pūkenga tōna e hono ana ki te mōhio me te pūmanawa. E whakahonoretia ana a Flip Tūru Panoni mō tōna tōtika, ā, i hoahoatia hei whakapai ake i te kounga o te oranga me te āwhina i te ao kia pai ake.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Flexibility and transformation are the fundamental ideas behind this design. The design allows the chair to migrate between different settings and respond to moods and needs of the user, since it can be transformed just by flipping it. This results to different seating postures and designs as per the needs of the user. Besides the alteration, this gives the product a visual consolidation, emphasizing the reduction of materials and unification of forms.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Structural stability is attained by the overlapping plywood strips that curve into one another and are glued on connection points. These provide the necessary flexibility that thin layers of plywood offer as a construction material, together with the cushions attached to them. Plywood sheets are spray painted and varnished on all sides. Besides the natural beech wood finish, they come in black and white colored types.
- Tags
- Transformable, flexible, fluid, plywood, sustainable
- Production Technology
- The manufacturing process used for the plywood is steam bending which is a low energy, low waste process using no toxic glues, just water. The process of steaming the wood also seasons it at the same as it is bent, using a fraction of the energy required in conventional kiln drying. Having in mind always the use of low environmental impact solutions, plywood is used with low VOC finishes and Bio Shield natural oil finishes, in order to reveal the textural qualities of wood construction.
- Design Challenge
- With the fluidity of seat and the linearity if strips, the design is suggestive of plant growth. In this way it expresses the spirit of the material it is made of and reveals the textural qualities of wood construction. With an intentionally clear and simple form for this furniture, adaptation to the product philosophy of Dorma Design was taken into account, in order to make this chair complementary of company’s group of furniture and suitable for mass production.
- Research
- The research focused on how the curve segments can be combined together taking into account physically satisfying posture as well as ergonomics. Full scale mockups were produced in order to check the weight and functionality of the furniture prior to fabrication. Cushions were tested in order to act as an extension of the main framing, having as a basic principle the minimum use of material and minimum number of construction elements.
- Inspiration
- When you bend a strip of plywood you get an elastic curve. What geometry does this curve follow? The interest in line and movement is expressed through a refined vocabulary, derived from the functional aspects of the design. The main structural elements are strips of plywood that fold in a specific and supplementary manner, in line with proportions of the human body so as to establish the dimensions of the chair.
- Operation Flow
- Exploring the value of wooden manufacture and the flexible nature of wood as a construction material, the Flip Flop chair is constructed of a series of plywood elements. Fluid linear forms establish a visual rhythm through the graphic lines of the design. This analytical construction logic with curves and crisp lines defines a characteristic profile with a light and elegant effect.
- Image Credits
- Studio Niko Kapa
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