Grace Espreguiçadeira by Daniel Devadder

Grace Espreguiçadeira by Daniel Devadder is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Ouro in Design de Mobiliário Competition Category.

OuroMobiliário· 2023

Grace Espreguiçadeira

by Daniel Devadder

Client: Daniel Devadder Interior Design

A' Design Award de Ouro Winner in Mobiliário Category

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The Design

About Grace Espreguiçadeira

Grace é um design que traduz sentimentos que uma única palavra não consegue descrever. Isto em combinação com a convicção de que a forma nem sempre segue a função, mas deve ser capaz de seguir a emoção. O resultado é um design semelhante a uma escultura feito a partir de uma moldura impressa em 3D, parcialmente coberta com espuma para maior conforto e um tecido elástico mas durável. Do ponto de vista estético, apresenta uma elegância e uma forma algo intemporais. Pode combinar diferentes acabamentos e materiais e misturar-se em diferentes ambientes: desde o uso de alta qualidade no lobby de um hotel até móveis em uma casa particular.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Ouro

Grace Espreguiçadeira conquistou o A' Design Award de Ouro, um reconhecimento imensamente prestigiado atribuído a designs de primeira linha, maravilhosos e notáveis. Os vencedores do Ouro são criações extremamente inovadoras, visionárias e glamorosamente deslumbrantes, que refletem o prodígio, a sabedoria e a proeza dos seus designers. Espera-se que Grace Espreguiçadeira seja uma invenção muito elogiada, pioneira e monumental, que oferece um valor sem precedentes. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Ouro é um projeto espetacular e respeitado, que beneficia muito e faz avançar as fronteiras da arte, da ciência, do design e da tecnologia. Grace Espreguiçadeira cria sentimentos intensos de desejo, evoca paixão, incentiva a criatividade e fascina-nos.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Grace provides a certain wow factor and the way it is interpreted changes from person to person, from feeling to feeling, making it a unique experience.
An experience that will always be linked to your thoughts and how you feel.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 900mm x Depth 910mm x Height 680mm
Tags: Furniture, chair, productdesign, lounge, seating, indoor, organic, 3Dprint, stereolithography, Belgium
Production Technology: 3D printed structure. The material used is called Tusk SolidGrey3000 which is the world's first Stereolithography material that combines a high degree of stiffness with high impact resistance, available exclusively at Materialise.
The chair was tested from 2000N to 6000N. The displacement in the seating area ranges from 2mm to 5mm (for 2000N and 6000N respectively) and 3.5mm to 11mm at the top of the back rest.

The fabric used for the manual upholstery is Tonus 4, colour 0610, from Kvadrat because of its flexibility and durability. On the outsides of the design, high resilience foam is used for added comfort.
Design Challenge: Finding a material that could follow the shapes while having the strength and rigidity to support the weight of an adult without deforming.

He wanted to use a fully recycled plastic to 3D print the design. However, this was not yet possible with the available materials, which at the same time had to meet the necessary strength requirements, etc.

He had the chair upholstered. Even though an elaboration without any upholstery would be perfectly conceivable.

If a pattern would be cut by machine, some details from the upholstery could be finished in a more refined way.
Research: The design arises as a reflection of emotions that you cannot capture with a simple word, but rather express through a movement, a certain flow. The spiritual, indescribable and mysterious is what resulted in the design.
Inspiration: Grace was a way to translate feelings and emotions a single word can not describe.

Inspired by nature with its complexity hidden behind elegant and flawless forms.

This in combination with the conviction that form doesn't and shouldn't always follow function, but rather should be able to follow emotion. They merge together. It's something you strongly see in dance. Ballet and tango for example. Translating emotions and feelings by transcending oneself in a form or movement.
Project Duration: End of December 2020: First sketch.
January 2021: First digital plans.
June 17, 2021: 3D printed structure was delivered.
March 11, 2022: Collection of the fully upholstered and finished chair in Antwerp.
Operation Flow: As you walk around it, from every angle you discover something new that changes the interpretation of what you see. Some may recognise a bird, a plant, a child may think of a ghost. This gives the design a certain personality and soul.

It has an elegance and form that somehow is timeless. It could go with different finishes and materials and fit in different settings. From high-end use in the lobby of a hotel to furniture in a private home.
Even when not in use, the design leaves behind a kind of sculpture that enhances the space it resides in.
Team Members: Daniel Devadder
Image Credits: Ypsilon Business Photography, 2022