Zene د ډوډۍ خوړلو څوکۍ by John G Williams is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2018 د اوسپنې A' Design Award جایزه in د فرنیچر ډیزاین Competition Category.
اوسپنهفرنیچر· 2018
Zene د ډوډۍ خوړلو څوکۍ
Client: John G Williams
د اوسپنې A' Design Award جایزه Winner in فرنیچر Category
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About Zene د ډوډۍ خوړلو څوکۍ
د زینه د ډوډۍ خوړلو څوکۍ خپل الهام له ځايي لرګیو او ډنمارکي عصري ډیزاین څخه اخلي. د روښانه ايش (ash) چوکاټونه ساده او مضبوط دي او د سختو لرګیو څوکې او د ملا تکیه ملاتړ کوي چې داسې ښکاري لکه پر چوکاټ روانې وي. د څوکۍ/د ملا تکیې کږې بڼې د لرګي په ټکولو نه دي جوړې شوې بلکې د سختو لرګیو د یوځای کولو او بڼې ورکولو له لارې جوړې شوې دي. د یوې لړۍ په توګه، د روښانه ايش چوکاټونه یووالی برابروي، او د څوکۍ/د ملا تکیو لپاره ټاکل شوي بېلابېل محلي مواد دلچسپي او اړوندتیا رامنځته کوي.
The Recognition
About the د اوسپنې A' Design Award جایزه
Zene د ډوډۍ خوړلو څوکۍ د اوسپنې A' Design Award جایزې ګټونکی دی، یوه ویاړلې پېژندنه چې ښو ډیزاینونو ته ورکول کېږي چې هغه مسلکي او صنعتي اړتیاوې پوره کوي چې له ښه ډیزاین شویو جوړښتونو څخه تمه کېږي. د اوسپنې ګټونکي د خپلو جوړوونکو لویه مهارت، لوړه تخصص، کارپوهانه پوهه او خلاقي وړتیا ښيي. له Zene د ډوډۍ خوړلو څوکۍ څخه تمه کېږي چې یو ډېر ارزښتناک، ستایل شوی او ګران جوړښت وي چې عملي او نوښتګر دی. دا د اوسپنې A' Design Award جایزې ګټونکی ډیزاین د صنعت غوره کړنلارې یو ځای کوي او وړ تخنیکي ځانګړتیاوې لري چې له پوهې او استعداد سره تړلي دي. Zene د ډوډۍ خوړلو څوکۍ د خپل دقت له امله درناوی کېږي او د ژوند د کیفیت داسې ښه والی وړاندې کولو لپاره ډیزاین شوی چې نړۍ یو ښه ځای ګرځولو کې مرسته کوي.
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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