Chair of Soul Kudi by Wen Jenq Cherng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Gangsa in Desain Parabot Competition Category.

GangsaParabot· 2020

Chair of Soul Kudi

by Wen Jenq Cherng

Client: Cherng's Work

A' Design Award Gangsa Winner in Parabot Category

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The Design

About Chair of Soul Kudi

Kudi Jiwa adolah kudi nan dirancang untuak manyokong tubuah dalam posisi tagak nan santai. Tinggi tampek duduak, sandaran pungguang di bagian pinggang, sarato sandaran tangan manopang barek tubuah bagian ateh. Sandaran pungguang nan sadikik malengkuang mangikuik bantuak tubuah sarato mailangkan katagangan di bahu, lihia, pinggang, jo anggota gerak. Parabot Dinasti Ming tradisional manjadi cetak biru untuak proporsi nan sederhana ko. Kayu hitam (ebony) dari Sulawesi mambantuak struktur utamo, dipaduan jo kaki tabuang tambago sarato tampek duduak dari kulik Nappa warno unguo. Sambungan mortise jo tenon manyambuangkan bagian-bagian tu, sadangkan struktur lengkuang manyambuangkan kaki jo tampek duduak.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Gangsa

Chair of Soul Kudi adolah pamenang A' Design Award Gangsa, sabuah pangakuan nan sangaik bapresti nan dibarikan ka rancangan nan cemerlang nan dicirikan dek kreativitas, kacerdikan jo kabijaksanaan. Pamenang Gangsa adolah karya nan cukuik mahir jo kreatif sacaro mangesankan nan mamastikan pangalaman nan luas, imajinasi jo kacerdikan parancangnyo. Chair of Soul Kudi dipaokan manjadi bando nan sangaik dihormati, dikagumi jo disayangi, nan profesional jo inovatif sacaro nampak. Rancangan nan manang Gangsa iko mamuek praktik tabaik dalam seni, ilimu, rancangan jo teknologi jo cemerlang dalam parhatian ka rincian. Chair of Soul Kudi mamanuhi kaparluan jo elok, manyantuah karinduan, mamikaik parasaan jo manarik raso ingin tahu.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Chair of Soul is my entry point of use as a starting point for design thinking. Since I have long been practicing meditation for destressing and calming my body and mind, I am hoping the design of the chair could reflect a completely relaxed condition for the body. Overall design is thereby focused on its function, where the user would sit upright on the chair and his or her upper-body weight be perfectly supported through the height of the chair, the backrest at the waist, and the armrests.
Dimensions & Packaging: When producing a hereditary chair, what is more important than ensuring its functions is finding ways to incorporate visual aesthetics. I am using Chinese traditional Ming Dynasty style furniture as my blueprint, borrowing its elegant and simple exterior design and principles on proportion. And through enhancement of overall structural system, a unique arc structure is used as the support that connects the legs and the seat of the chair.
Tags: Product, Chair, Health, Oriental, Furniture
Production Technology: The curvature of the slightly bulging backrest embraces the body; this waist-supporting chair design offers supports for the human body, so that tensions around user’s shoulders, neck, waist, and limbs would all be relieved–user would be welcomed with a comforting sensation similar to a hug.
Design Challenge: Pairing the material with the metallic copper tube of the legs and the purple cow Nappa leather seat, harmony, elegance, stability, and sustainability are incorporated altogether to bring forth a chair that user could converse with, the chair I dub – Chair of Soul.
Research: A chair that is aimed to improve the users health would need to value the choice of material as equally important as the design that would fit precisely to human body proportions. I have especially chosen the ebony produced in Sulawesi, Indonesia as the chair’s main structure element; its fine material and deep-black colored lines flawlessly interpret the sophistication that the chair should exhibit.
Inspiration: We have always had different thoughts in regards to chairs. This piece of furniture with a long history of evolution has always been deemed irreplaceable in home interior. How should a classic chair, which one hopes to pass down for generations and stay eternally quintessential, be presented?
Project Duration: The project started in December 2016 and finished in December 2018.
Operation Flow: The design is further complemented by the mortice and tenon joint as the reinforcing linkage between parts, bringing betterment to the complex composition found in old-fashioned traditional furniture. In addition to strengthening the chair’s mechanics system, a simplistic and spiritual appearance is thereby created for the chair.
Team Members: Designer: Wen-Jenq Cherng