Exocet Primary Function: Kurisi Multifungsi by Stéphane Leathead

Exocet Primary Function: Kurisi Multifungsi by Stéphane Leathead is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2015 A' Design Award Ameh in Desain Parabot Competition Category.

AmehParabot· 2015

Exocet Primary Function: Kurisi Multifungsi

by Stéphane Leathead

Client: Exocet

A' Design Award Ameh Winner in Parabot Category

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The Design

About Exocet Primary Function: Kurisi Multifungsi

Exocet adolah kurisi multifungsi nan tabuek dari kayu birch Baltik jo aluminium. Kurisi ko dibuek dari sarangkaian bilah malangkuang nan samo bantuaknyo, dirangkai mangaliliangi silinder di tangah. Pamakaian ciek bantuak bilah dasa mambantu proses pabrikasi nan efisien. Exocet dapek diatua dalam babarapo konfigurasi, tamasuak kurisi standar, kurisi panjang tampek bagoyang, sarato bantuak nan talipek. Untuak maubah bantuaknyo, pamakai malapehkan takanan jo pituak, mamindahkan bagian-bagian di sakuliliang silinder, sudah tu marapek an pituak baliak. Hasianyo adolah sabuah kurisi jo banyak posisi tapi sangaik saketek bagiannyo.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Ameh

Exocet Primary Function: Kurisi Multifungsi adolah pamenang A' Design Award Ameh, sabuah pangakuan nan sangaik bapresti nan dibarikan ka rancangan kelas partamo, mangaguikan jo cumelang. Pamenang Ameh adolah ciptaan nan sangaik inovatif, bapandangan jauah jo baka-kilauan mamikaik nan mancaminkan bakaik, kabijaksanaan jo kahebatan parancangnyo. Exocet Primary Function: Kurisi Multifungsi dipaokan manjadi panemuan nan sangaik dipuji, panetap kacenderungan jo monumental nan mambari nilai nan alun pernah ado. Rancangan nan manang Ameh iko adolah proyek nan mangaguikan jo dihargai nan maluaskan batas seni, ilimu, rancangan jo teknologi. Exocet Primary Function: Kurisi Multifungsi malahiakan karinduan nan kuek, mambangkikkan gairah, mandorong kreativitas jo mamikaik kito.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: EXOCET is a new concept chair. Its unique & clever design allows to transform it in order to get the desired shape. The EXOCET is crafted from a single main piece, a slat. A series of identical slats assembly is simply rotated on a cylinder.
Dimensions & Packaging: Standard chair configuration:
Width: 660 mm, Length: 1524 mm, Height: 1220 mm.
Rocking long chair configuration
Width: 660 mm, Lenght: 2185 mm, Height: 610 mm.
Folded chair configuration
Width: 660 mm, Lenght: 1524 mm, height: 460 mm.
Weight: 68 kg
Tags: design, innovation, elegance, style, amazing, less is more, beautiful, clever, rocking long chair, multifunctional
Production Technology: Baltic Birch & Aluminium
Design Challenge: Finding solution to limit friction as much as possible. To select the proper material to produce the cylinder and handles to avoid deterioration.
Research: The slat shape was the key element. It was imperative to design the slat so that it would maximize comfort through the various possible positions.
Inspiration: It started with a simple questioning. Can we create a long chair offering more than 3 back positions? And can it rock as well? And can it be made of very few pieces? Could a chair be designed using smooth curves instead hard straight lines? And most importantly, can it be simple yet innovative & elegant? I started designing with one obsession using only one basic shape allowing a very efficient fabrication process.
Project Duration: The project started in July 2014. The first hand made prototype was created in August 2014. The first public exhibition took place in Toronto at the Interior Design Show in January 22 to 25, 2015.
Operation Flow: You can transform it by releasing the pressure with the handle. You move the section around the cylinder to create the desired configuration and you tighten the handle.
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Stéphane Leathead, Exocet, 2014.
Image #2: Photographer Stéphane Leathead, Exocet, 2014.
Image #3: Photographer Stéphane Leathead, Exocet, 2014.
Image #4: Photographer Stéphane Leathead, Exocet, 2014.
Image #5: Photographer Stéphane Leathead, Exocet, 2014.