The Fortunate Ruyi Chair Cadeira by Tzu Wei Lin

The Fortunate Ruyi Chair Cadeira by Tzu Wei Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design de Mobiliário Competition Category.

BronzeMobiliário· 2023

The Fortunate Ruyi Chair Cadeira

by Tzu Wei Lin

Client: Xudong Interior Decoration Design Co., Ltd.

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Mobiliário Category

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The Design

About The Fortunate Ruyi Chair Cadeira

A Fortunate Ruyi Chair é uma cadeira inspirada no motivo Ruyi, um símbolo tradicional chinês de boa sorte. Uma forma clássica de cadeira constitui a base estrutural e é combinada com um padrão Ruyi simplificado. O padrão é duplicado e invertido, depois sobreposto e fundido para formar um assento e pernas curvas. Linhas curvas irregulares, curvas internas e pontas externas criam uma sensação de fluidez e um equilíbrio assimétrico. A cadeira mede 500 mm de largura, 600 mm de profundidade e 500 mm de altura. A cultura tradicional une-se à estética moderna.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

The Fortunate Ruyi Chair Cadeira conquistou o A' Design Award de Bronze, um reconhecimento altamente prestigiado atribuído a designs notáveis que se distinguem pela criatividade, engenho e perspicácia. Os vencedores do Bronze são artefactos amplamente habilidosos e surpreendentemente criativos que comprovam a vasta experiência, imaginação e capacidade de iniciativa dos seus designers. Espera-se que The Fortunate Ruyi Chair Cadeira seja um objeto muito considerado, admirado e estimado, notavelmente profissional e inovador. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Bronze incorpora as melhores práticas em arte, ciência, design e tecnologia e é excelente pela sua atenção ao detalhe. The Fortunate Ruyi Chair Cadeira satisfaz esplendidamente necessidades, toca desejos, encanta sentimentos e desperta curiosidade.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: Therefore, this design is nothing like what the designer has done before, it starts with the pattern of the Ruyi pattern, and the designer has spent much time researching the concepts and styles of multiple chairs. Little by little, The Fortunate Ruyi Chair concept has transformed into a clearer picture. It is an art piece combined with various layers of materials, the beauty of craftsmanship, the richness of cultural heritage, and the amazingness of the designer ingenuity.
Dimensions & Packaging: The furniture piece is Width 500 mmm x Depth 600mm x Height 500mm.
Tags: Furniture, Design, Chair, Ruyi, Fortunate
Production Technology: For this project, the designer has set the classic chair style shape as the structural basis and combined it with the simplified Ruyi pattern. Then, by duplicating and flipping the pattern, the pattern is overlapped and fused to form a curved seat and legs, perfectly blending traditional culture with modern aesthetics.
Design Challenge: For this project, the designer has analyzed the Ruyi pattern, extracted its connotation, and applied it to the product form so that the product is aesthetically, culturally, and functionally enjoyable. In this way, users will understand the underlying cultural spirit of the chair through their experiences with the product. Moreover, this product interprets the spirit of traditional culture unconventionally, changing our perception of traditional culture yet retaining its cultural connotation and, most importantly, paying tribute to ancestry wisdom. In summary, it is an art piece that is awe-inspiring, thought provoking and mind blowing.
Research: Vladimir Kagan, the noted German American furniture designer, believes that designing a chair is like creating a container for an individual. Therefore, the function, shape, and meaning of the chair are highly associated with the user and the environment. This project is a clever application of one of the historical motifs of Chinese culture, Ruyi, to a modern product design. From 3D natural objects to 2D patterns and then applying them to 3D products, the designer has simplified the lines and colors to create a work that is aesthetically modern and attractive.
Inspiration: Ruyi has served as a unique cultural symbol in Chinese culture and has an underlying meaning of great fortune. The designer has set Ruyi as the primary inspiration for the chair design because, during the designer experiences in the field of interior design over the years, each design project must be executed based on the client preferences and many other contributing factors.
Project Duration: The project was completed in August 2021 in Taipei Taiwan.
Operation Flow: Other than that, the lines of the seat are extended by the Ruyi pattern by the use of the irregular curved lines, unique angles of the inner curves, and the outer corners of the tips to produce a rich and dynamic rhythm of the chair, delivering a sense of flow and producing an asymmetrical balance.
Image Credits: Lin Tzu Wei, 2022