Silhouette Scaun de Dining by Joana Santos Barbosa is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award de Fier in Design de Mobilier Competition Category.
FierMobilier· 2024
Silhouette Scaun de Dining
Client: InsidherLand
A' Design Award de Fier Winner in Mobilier Category
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About Silhouette Scaun de Dining
Proiectat de arhitecta Joana Santos Barbosa, Silhouette este un scaun de dining captivant, care evocă curbele senzuale ale unei femei. Influențată de artiștii din secolul XX care picturau mai multe realități într-o singură dimensiune, precum muzicienii având instrumentele ca parte a propriilor corpuri, Joana a transpus această dimensiune comună într-un design surprinzător de elegant. Structura întunecată dezvăluie mișcarea șoldurilor unei femei așezate pe obiect, în timp ce șezutul curbat desenează un zâmbet invitator. Silhouette poartă narațiune și simbolism și este cu adevărat fascinant.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award de Fier
Silhouette Scaun de Dining a câștigat A' Design Award de Fier, o recunoaștere prestigioasă acordată designurilor bune care îndeplinesc cerințele profesionale și industriale așteptate de la creații bine concepute. Câștigătorii Fierului demonstrează mare pricepere, înaltă specializare, înțelegere de specialitate și capacitate creativă din partea creatorilor lor. Se așteaptă ca Silhouette Scaun de Dining să fie o creație foarte apreciată, admirată și prețuită, practică și inovatoare. Acest design câștigător al A' Design Award de Fier integrează cele mai bune practici din industrie și are caracteristici tehnice competente îmbinate cu know-how și talent. Pentru acuratețea sa, Silhouette Scaun de Dining merită respect și este conceput pentru a aduce îmbunătățiri ale calității vieții care ajută la facerea lumii un loc mai bun.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Silhouette is a surreal reminiscence of a woman's sensual curves that arise designed in an eye catching dining chair.
The slightly curved seat draws an inviting smile that harmonizes with the structure, revealing the movement of the hips, as parts of a female body. Silhouette shows contours of a mysterious profile and presents the observer with feminine sensuality. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Height 87cm
Width 46cm
Depth 53cm
Seat Height 48cm - Tags
- diningchair, chair, silhouette, luxurychair, organicdesign, modernchair, moderndesign, luxuryfurniture
- Production Technology
- Beech wood structure frame with translucent dark brown finish in high gloss varnish and luxury soft fabric with gold accents.
- Design Challenge
- The creative process of this chair was one of the most "suffered" among the pieces in Joana Santos Barbosa's portfolio. In fact, the design of this chair took more than two years to be completed between back and forth in the process because it carries such a strong symbolism that she wanted to transform it into a clean and sensual design.
The beech wood structure was hand crafted and carved to bring to mind the profile of a female body and was given a translucent brown finish that naturally stands out on the soft beige upholstery with fine golden threads that represent the delicacy of the female personality. - Research
- The design of the Silhouette dining chair was influenced by the sensuality of a woman's curves. Both the woman and the functional object seem to merge naturally. It is thus possible to admire this integration in the surrounding perspectives of the chair, with special focus on the back, in which we identify parts of a body that seem to be living in the object.
The creative process was based on some works by twentieth century painters who applied the same technique of representing people and objects in a single dimension. However, working on the design of the chair in three dimensions, its development was carried out in full-scale prototypes, in order to get a functional and sensual final design that conveyed all its inspiration in an elegant look. - Inspiration
- The representation of several realities seen simultaneously from a single point of view has become fascinating for several twentieth century artists like Paul Klee who drawn musicians and fragments of their musical instruments as an integral part of their own bodies.
The joint dimension of people and objects strongly influenced the Silhouette dining chair, whose elegant wooden structure uncovers parts of a woman’s body who sits on it. - Project Duration
- Since the first sketch, the design took more than two years to be fully developed. The production is entirely made in the city of Porto, located in the north of Portugal.
- Operation Flow
- Being a chair made of a single structure in solid wood, the object cannot be manipulated to acquire other forms. This chair was specially designed for dining spaces that appreciate the high quality of manual manufacturing processes and luxurious finishes.
- Patents
- © InsidherLand
- Image Credits
- © InsidherLand | All images are InsidherLand property
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