5x5 कुर्सी by Barbara Princic is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2014 A' Design Award रजत पुरस्कार in फर्निचर डिजाइन Competition Category.
रजतफर्निचर· 2014
5x5 कुर्सी
Client: Sijaj Hrastnik
A' Design Award रजत पुरस्कार Winner in फर्निचर Category
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The Design
About 5x5 कुर्सी
Xx5 कुर्सी एक विशिष्ट डिजाइन परियोजना हो जहाँ सीमालाई चुनौतीको रूपमा मान्यता दिइन्छ। कुर्सीको सिट र पछाडि xilith बाट बनेको छ जुन आकार दिन धेरै गाह्रो छ। Xilith कच्चा माल छ कि भूमि को सतह मुनि 300 मिटर पाउन सकिन्छ र एक कोइला संग मिसिएको छ। हाल कच्चा माल फ्याँकिएको छ। वातावरणीय दृष्टिकोणबाट यो सामग्रीले पृथ्वीको सतहमा फोहोर उत्पन्न गर्दछ। त्यसकारण कुर्सी डिजाइनको बारेमा विचार धेरै उत्तेजक र चुनौतीपूर्ण देखिन्थ्यो।
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award रजत पुरस्कार
5x5 कुर्सी A' Design Award रजत पुरस्कारको विजेता हो, सर्वोच्च श्रेणीका, सुन्दर र प्रभावशाली डिजाइनहरूलाई दिइने असाधारण रूपमा प्रतिष्ठित मान्यता। रजत विजेताहरू अत्यन्त चम्किला र धेरै सृजनशील कृतिहरू हुन्, जसले डिजाइनरहरूको उत्कृष्ट विशेषज्ञता, प्रतिभा र सूक्ष्म दृष्टि देखाउँछन्। 5x5 कुर्सी अद्भुत, आदर्श, अत्यन्त व्यावसायिक र गहिरो रूपमा नवीन कृति बन्नेछ भन्ने अपेक्षा छ। 5x5 कुर्सी धेरैले ईर्ष्या गर्ने रचना हो; यसले इच्छा जगाउँछ, सकारात्मक भावना ल्याउँछ र आश्चर्य तथा विस्मय पैदा गर्छ।
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The 5x5 chair is a typical design project where the limitation is recognized as a challenge. The chair's seat and the back are made of xilith which is very difficult to be shaped. Xilith is the raw material that can be found 300 meters under the ground surface and is comined with a coal. But it is nither the coal nor the wood. Currently the majority of the raw material is thrown away. From environmental point of view this material generates waste on the earth surface. Therefore the idea about chair design seemed to be very provocative and challenging. The scientific methods of the material's final surface treatment have been explored so if applied properly the final look can be close to that of ebony.
Each chair is unique as neither two tiles look the same. Therefore the chair can have more brown or more black look depending on the tiles collected together. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 470 mm x Depth 540 mm x Hight 840 mm
- Tags
- xilith, tiles, metal, elegant, thin, material innovation, experiment
- Production Technology
- Chair's structure:
- metal tub legs, surface nickel treated
- seat and back support made of laser cutted metal sheet, surface nickel treated
- Xilith tiles, cut, surface treated with linseed oil;
tiles glued on metal sheet surface - Design Challenge
- Material's unique visual properties, physical characteristics and manufacturing limitations were challenging.
The design challenge was simply how to make a chair from little tiles? how to connect them? How to make the underneath seat's metal sheet stiff but yet almost invisible, thin. - Research
- It was all about experimental work with this unique material. The scientific methods of surface treatment were examined years before within Biotechnological Faculty, University of Ljubljana. If the surface is treated properly, the outcome look is similar to ebony.
- Inspiration
- As explained in the project explanation; material's unique visual properties, physical characteristics and manufacturing limitations were challenging.
Xilith is the raw material that is very hard and fragile. Therefore the tile's dimension 5x5 cm is the maximum still acceptable dimension for manufacturing since the material itself is very difficult to be manufactured and shaped. - Project Duration
- The project started in May 2008 and finished in October 2008 in Slovenia. It was exhibited at several exhibitions like
- Month of Design, October 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Reader-friendly Design, January 2010, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- The Design Assembly, May 2010, Graz, Austria
- IDEA Award Winners and Finalists exhibition, August 2010, Henry Ford Museum, Michigan USA
- Charm of wood, spring 2011, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Ambient, furniture fair, October 2013, Ljubljana, Slovenia - Operation Flow
- It enables very comfortable and ergonomic sitting.
- Team Members
- Barbara Princic, designer
Mr. Miran Drac, technologist - Image Credits
- Images No.1-5, photographer Miha Benedicic, 5x5 chair, 2009.
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