Zene Үндсэн үүрэг: Хоолны сандал by John G Williams is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2018 A' Design Award Төмөр шагнал in Тавилгын дизайн Competition Category.
ТөмөрТавилга· 2018
Zene Үндсэн үүрэг: Хоолны сандал
Client: John G Williams
A' Design Award Төмөр шагнал Winner in Тавилга Category
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About Zene Үндсэн үүрэг: Хоолны сандал
Zene хоолны сандал нь нутгийн модлог болон Данийн Модерн дизайнаас санаа авчээ. Хөнгөн үнсэн модон хүрээ нь энгийн бөгөөд бат бөх бөгөөд хүрээн дээр хөвж байгаа мэт харагдах хатуу модон суудал болон нурууны түшлэгийг тэтгэдэг. Суудал/нурууны түшлэгийн муруй хэлбэрийг модыг нугалж бус, харин хатуу модон материалыг холбож, хэлбэржүүлж бүтээсэн юм. Цуврал бүтээгдэхүүний хувьд хөнгөн үнсэн хүрээ нэгдмэл байдлыг хангаж, суудал/нурууны түшлэгэнд сонгогдсон нутгийн өөр өөр материалууд сонирхол болон ач холбогдлыг төрүүлдэг.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Төмөр шагнал
Zene Үндсэн үүрэг: Хоолны сандал нь A' Design Award Төмөр шагналын ялагч бөгөөд сайн зохиогдсон бүтээлээс хүлээгддэг мэргэжлийн болон үйлдвэрлэлийн шаардлагыг хангасан сайн загварт олгодог нэр хүндтэй хүлээн зөвшөөрөлт юм. Төмөр ялагчид бүтээгчдийнхээ агуу ур чадвар, өндөр мэргэшил, мэргэжилтний ойлголт, бүтээлч чадавхийг харуулдаг. Zene Үндсэн үүрэг: Хоолны сандал нь өндөр үнэлэгдсэн, биширсэн, хайрласан, практик, шинэлэг бүтээл байх болно гэж хүлээгддэг. Төмөр шагнал хүртсэн энэ загвар нь салбарын шилдэг туршлагыг нэгтгэж, мэдлэг, авьяастай холбогдсон чадварлаг техникийн шинж чанартай. Zene Үндсэн үүрэг: Хоолны сандал нь нухацтай байдлаараа хүндлэгддэг бөгөөд амьдралын чанарыг сайжруулж, дэлхийг илүү сайхан газар болгоход туслахаар зохиогдсон.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This series of dining chairs have American ash frames and showcase different hardwood timbers for the seat/backrest combinations.
The chairs draw on the ancient art of 'coopering' or how oak barrels are made for fermentation purposes. The curved forms of the seat/backrest are not formed by bending but rather by joining and shaping solid hardwood timber.
The chair strives to be very strong and beautiful. In short: Zene -
elegant, comfortable and dependable. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 515mm wide x 570mm deep x 890mm high
seat: 515mm wide x 390mm deep
back:515mm wide x 200mm high - Tags
- zene, dining chair, south africa, hardwood, curved, cooper, danish modern, minimalist
- Production Technology
- The Zene design evolved over a number of years. The starting point was probably a fascination with the art of coopering and how this has been applied to furniture design. Building the segmented seat and backrests took some practice to perfect, as did the development of custom modifications to standard workshop tools to shape and finish the smoothly shaped forms.
- Design Challenge
- Building the coopered seat/backrests was challenging as it required careful attention to the compression forces on the material and how best to achieve high compression without causing the seats to 'implode'.
Shaping the rough seats into finely finished and smooth curves required considerable re-working of the custom tooling to achieve the desired results - Research
- Danish modern designs were studied and absorbed to consider different ways of rendering the frame, and its relationship to the seat, and to think through the spatial relationship of the seat to the backrest.
Web search was used to think about typical dimensions for the seat but in the end prototyping proved most fun. - Inspiration
- The beauty grain and colour of indigenous African timber was a key aesthetic inspiration for this project. The more technical inspiration for the overall work, including the frame design came from iconic designers such as Hans J Wegner (for example the CH20 Elbow Chair). The coopering technique was inspired by Ontario furniture designer Adrian Ferrazzutti.
- Project Duration
- The first prototype was conceived in Johannesburg in 2007. It was slowly refined as background task over 10 years, and the first set of 6 chairs was produced in 2017
- Operation Flow
- Zene is designed mainly for use at the dining table and is designed for extended dining comfort.
- Patents
- no patents pending
- Team Members
- John G Williams: designer, craftsman
- Image Credits
- all images by the designer: John G Williams
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