Selena Cadièra by Aciole Felix is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award d'Argent in Dissènh de Mobilièr Competition Category.

ArgentMobilièr· 2025

Selena Cadièra

by Aciole Felix

Client: Morada Decor

A' Design Award d'Argent Winner in Mobilièr Category

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The Design

About Selena Cadièra

Selena es una cadièra facha de fusta de Jequitiba e de palha naturala. L'estructura es formada per un usinatge CNC detalhat, que crèa de superfícias lisas e contunhas sens jonchuras visiblas. Un trabalh artesanal complèta l'assemblatge e la fixacion de la palha. La palha va del dorsièr fins al sèti, en formant un element contunh qu'apond una leugieretat visuala a un volum monolitic. Una acabada a basa d'aiga es utilizada per reduire l'impacte environamental. Selena combina una aparéncia minimalista amb una estructura robusta concebuda per durar de generacions.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Argent

Selena Cadièra a ganhat la distincion A' Design Award d'Argent, una reconeissença extraordinàriament prestigiosa acordada a de designs d'ort de gamma, esplendids e impressionants. Los ganhaires de l'Argent son d'òbras terriblament brilhantas e extrèmament creativas que illustran l'experiéncia, lo talent e la finessa excepcionals de lors designers. S'espèra que Selena Cadièra siá una òbra meravilhosa e de referéncia, notablament professionala e prigondament innovanta. Aqueste design ganhaire de la distincion A' Design Award d'Argent es una invencion fòrça notabla e admirada, que fa un ben e fa avançar las frontièras de l'art, de la sciéncia, del design e de la tecnologia. Selena Cadièra es una creacion immensament envejada que desrevelha de desirs, aduch de sentiments positius e fa néisser l'estonament e l'esmaiment.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Selena was designed with the aim of having a light and minimalist look. It represents a little of what we tried to convey with these innovative surfaces and transitions, resulting in the smooth shapes of a resistant and durable chair. The continuity of the straw produces a minimalist effect, and the transparency of this material generates lightness in a monolithic volume. The chair is a tactile object, to understand its complexity it is necessary to feel each transition, fit and surface.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 0.560 mm
Depth 0.600 mm
Height 0.840 mm
Tags: minimalist design, cnc machining, jequitiba wood, portuguese straw, form and function, contemporary design, sustainable design
Production Technology: A project focused on detailed cnc programming. Added to artisanal processes that require a lot of experience and care, in the use of organic materials, such as Jequitibá wood, and natural straw.
It highlights the resistance created in the machining processes, generating precision in assembly. And its water-based finish guarantees lower environmental impact. This makes the product durable and sustainable, thinking about pieces that will be used for generations.
Design Challenge: Search for fluid surfaces, without encounters, without visible obstacles, the process of fixing the natural straw, to form the smooth piece, search for exclusive tools and solutions with partners, was a great and time-consuming challenge, but delivered an exceptional result. Furthermore, it increased our creative repertoire.
The challenge was to make an aesthetically minimalist chair, which at the same time was structurally robust, and with this appearance was ergonomically attractive.
Research: The research into the design of the brief showed us that the natural puts us in a very positive way, in tune with our ancestry, awakening intrinsic sensations that welcome us, influencing human well-being, which is why the final objective of the project was to deliver a contemporary product , made with natural materials and organic shapes.
There was also a great effort in researching technology and tools that could execute according to the project.
Inspiration: In-depth CNC machining techniques were essential to define the shape of the chair, this was exploited to the maximum.
The search for fluid and smooth surfaces, characteristics that make the piece so interesting, and that hide the formal complexity, with different visual elements.
Also the natural straw, starting at the back, moving towards the seat, generates a continuous element of visual lightness and the impression that the chair does not have many stops, making the product even more fluid.
Project Duration: The project began in Lagoa Vermelha, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil on April 2, 2023 and ended in March 2024.
Operation Flow: The natural straw in the seat initially creates hesitation, and the feeling when sitting is one of surprise, comfort and security.
Designed with an organic shape and fluid lines, at the same time complex and intriguing, it becomes a product that also appeals to the sense of touch, going beyond ergonomics and visuals, interacting with human curiosity.
Visually light in a product with materials as noble and known for their robustness as wood, this product conveys softness and elegance.
Team Members: Design - Aciole Felix
Prototyping - Eduardo Bossardi
Approval - Rafael Schmidt
Search - Juliano Schmidt
Image Credits: Pherphoto fotografias