Kuan Icpalli by Fnji Ltd - Frank Chou is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Mahuizolli A' Design Award Tepoztli in Caltlapechtli Tlachihchihualiztli Competition Category.

TepoztliCaltlapechtli· 2022

Kuan Icpalli

by Fnji Ltd - Frank Chou

Client: FNJI x Frank Chou

Mahuizolli A' Design Award Tepoztli Winner in Caltlapechtli Category

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The Design

About Kuan Icpalli

Kuan yekentli icpalli motlalili para nemiliztli yancuic in cencalco. In inetlalilo yamanqui ihuan amo hueyimati, monamictia tepoztli ihuan ichcatlaquentli. In inhueyica in netlaliloyan, in imelahuayo in tzitziquiloni, ihuan in netlapohuiliztli inic tetic ihuan cactoc mopatlacayotl, quinextia in tlamachiliztli tlacencuiltonolli in tonalhuictlacayotl tlen ilhuicac tlalli. In itlaquen mochihua ica ichcatilmatli hualla huehca tlalli, moyectlalia ica huehuetlalili tlachihualiztli inic mochihua yamanic ipani cualli quixicoa in tequipacholiztli ihuan in tzahuayotl. Miec papatlac zomitl tlen occequi chicahualiztli mocentlalia inic quitemaca yolic icpalli. Kuan mocahua ica occequi tlatlaquentiloni.

The Recognition

About the Mahuizolli A' Design Award Tepoztli

Kuan Icpalli ca in quicuic in Mahuizolli A' Design Award Tepoztli, tlamahuizoliztli tlen momaca in cualli dizayno in quitlalia in tlen monequi ipan tequitl ihuan tlachihualiztli in quimaca in cualli tlachihualli. In quicuicah Tepoztli quinextia in hueyi tlamatiliztli, toltecayotl ihuan ihuelitiliztli intlachihuanime. Ca quinequi in Kuan Icpalli ca tlazohtli, mahuiztic, yancuic ihuan motequiuhtia. Ni dizayno in quicuic Tepoztli quihuelitia in tlamatiliztli ihuan quipia chicahualiztli tlen tepoztli. Kuan Icpalli quicualtia in nemiliztli ihuan quihuelitia in cemanahuac ica cualli.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Kuan Chair represents a style of contemporary oriental manner. The structure of this chair is simple and unpretentious. With high quality metal and wool materials, Kuan Chair also reveals the bywords for elegance and wisdom. The different feelings experienced by the volume of its seat, the lines of its structure, and the contrast between substance and emptiness, almost shows the reserved thoughts in Oriental philosophy. It is available with different covering materials.
Dimensions & Packaging: 690 mm x 735 mm x 670 mm
Tags: timeless, contrast, oriental, experimental
Production Technology: Kuan Chair adopts Italian brand imported wool fabric, which is stabilized by traditional process to obtain specific surface effect, giving smooth and soft hand feeling, and can achieve excellent resistance to pilling and wear resistance.
Design Challenge: The challenge could be how to explore the possibility of future living through design, which requires a deep understanding of the living status of people and the culture background that different from the others. Also, as part of daily life, chair plays a close role with people, which correspond with their living habits and personality.
Research: Kuan Chair is a new experimental series design by Frank Chou for furniture brand Fnji. It is vested diversified color and outline, meanwhile added in plenty of software and metal element. It contains the modern oriental ideology, molding the pioneer concept of exploring the ability of Chinese future lifestyle.
Inspiration: Kuan Chair is one of the pieces Frank Chou designed for FNJI. It is more free and agility in design, aim at modern and young generation, fusing contemporary design language, simple but warm, elegant and timeless. It contains the modern oriental ideology, molding the pioneer concept of exploring the ability of Chinese future lifestyle.
Project Duration: Kuan Chair was designed and produced in 2018.
Operation Flow: Cloth cover to take tight package process, soft package body form three-dimensional distinct, cloth surface flat fit, using multiple layers of different density of sponge combination filling to achieve a comfortable sitting feeling.
Team Members: Designer: Frank Chou