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Kodama Bar Stool Barzitmeubel by Marshall Wollum

Kodama Bar Stool Barzitmeubel by Marshall Wollum is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award in Brons in Meubelontwerp Competition Category.


BronsMeubels· 2021

Kodama Bar Stool Barzitmeubel

by Marshall Wollum

Client: Kodama Designs

A' Design Award in Brons Winner in Meubels Category

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The Design

About Kodama Bar Stool Barzitmeubel

Kodama Bar Stool is een houten zitmeubel ontworpen voor gebruik aan toonbanken en bars. Het ontwerp volgt een Japandi-benadering met een geaarde en organische uitstraling. Contrasterend walnoot- en appelhout benadrukken de originele houtverbindingen, die zichtbaar blijven. Traditionele houtbewerkingskennis wordt gecombineerd met een CNC-router, waardoor verbindingen met grotere complexiteit en precisie mogelijk zijn. De kruk meet 45 cm in breedte, 54 cm in diepte en 66 cm in hoogte. De naam Kodama betekent boomgeest, en het ontwerp brengt hulde aan hout als hernieuwbaar materiaal.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Brons

Kodama Bar Stool Barzitmeubel is winnaar van de A' Design Award in Brons, een hoogst prestigieuze erkenning die wordt toegekend aan uitstekende ontwerpen die zich onderscheiden door creativiteit, vindingrijkheid en scherpzinnigheid. Winnaars in Brons zijn ruimschoots vaardige en opvallend creatieve artefacten die de grote ervaring, verbeelding en het vernuft van hun ontwerpers bevestigen. Kodama Bar Stool Barzitmeubel wordt verwacht een hooggewaardeerd, bewonderd en gekoesterd object te zijn dat opmerkelijk professioneel en innovatief is. Dit ontwerp dat de A' Design Award in Brons heeft gewonnen, verwerkt de beste praktijken in kunst, wetenschap, ontwerp en technologie en is uitstekend door zijn aandacht voor detail. Kodama Bar Stool Barzitmeubel bevredigt schitterend behoeften, raakt verlangens, charmeert gevoelens en spreekt de nieuwsgierigheid aan.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties
A subtle Japandi design with a grounded and organic aesthetic. The contrasting Walnut and Applewood highlight the stool's creative and original wood joinery. The Kodama Bar Stool is a blend of ancient techniques with modern technology to create a piece that will hopefully endure for generations, in both construction and design aesthetic.
Dimensions & Packaging
Width 45cm, Depth 54cm, Height 66cm
Tags
Wood joinery, stool, furniture, autocad, fusion 360, cnc router, cnc machine
Production Technology
The challenge of this project was devising a method to program the powerful CNC router to delicately manifest the design through complex coding of the toolpaths and precision workholdings of the components on the machine. This innovative process has many more exciting years of refinement ahead as we are just beginning to open the door to a new era of parametric design and manufacturing that will allow human creativity to flourish with these new capabilities.
Design Challenge
This is a new field of manufacturing with little education opportunities available so I'm self-taught and continually making everything up as I go. I wake up every day feeling like the luckiest guy in the world to be on this creative adventure.
Inspiration
The word Kodama translates to the "spirit of the tree". The intent behind the Kodama Bar Stool is to pay tribute to wood, one of our world's most renewable materials, and to honor the tree that granted us its life's work.
The goal of this project was to combine the knowledge of traditional woodworking with a CNC router to accomplish joinery that was previously unobtainable in complexity and precision.
Project Duration
The project started in 2016 in the mountains of Colorado and was finished in Southern California in March 2019.
Operation Flow
Visible and honest wood joinery designed to hopefully endure through generations of daily use.

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