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The Swing Chair Stol by Jiangying Guo

The Swing Chair Stol by Jiangying Guo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Železna nagrada A' Design Award in Oblikovanje pohištva Competition Category.


ŽeleznaPohištvo· 2022

The Swing Chair Stol

by Jiangying Guo

Client: Jiangying Guo

Železna nagrada A' Design Award Winner in Pohištvo Category

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The Design

About The Swing Chair Stol

Nihajoči stol je sedež, navdihnjen po gugalnici. Zasnova se odziva na gibanje telesa in ustvarja dinamično interakcijo za sprostitev in igro. Sedežna ploskev in naslonjalo sta prilagodljiva in nastavljiva, tako da sledita želenim sedežnim položajem in gibom uporabnika. Kot med sedežno ploskvijo in naslonjalom se lahko spreminja od 120 do 133 stopinj. Konstrukcija je v obliki kocke velikosti 61x61x61 centimetrov. Za okvir je uporabljen hrastov les, za sedežno ploskev in naslonjalo vezan les, za nihajoče dele pa bombažna vrv. Groba vrv ustvarja trenje z lesom, kar omogoča nadzorovano in varno gibanje.

The Recognition

About the Železna nagrada A' Design Award

The Swing Chair Stol je prejemnik Železne nagrade A' Design Award, prestižnega priznanja, ki se podeljuje dobrim oblikovanjem, ki izpolnjujejo profesionalne in industrijske zahteve, pričakovane od dobro zasnovanih stvaritev. Prejemniki Železne nagrade kažejo veliko spretnost, visoko specializacijo, strokovno razumevanje in ustvarjalne zmožnosti svojih ustvarjalcev. Od The Swing Chair Stol se pričakuje, da bo visoko cenjena, občudovana in ljubljena stvaritev, ki je praktična in inovativna. To oblikovanje, nagrajeno z Železno nagrado A' Design Award, vključuje najboljše prakse panoge in ima kompetentne tehnične lastnosti, povezane s strokovnim znanjem in talentom. Zaradi svoje temeljitosti si The Swing Chair Stol zasluži spoštovanje in je zasnovan tako, da zagotavlja izboljšave kakovosti življenja, ki pomagajo narediti svet boljši kraj.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
Inspired by the swing, this chair aims to respond with human body movements and create a dynamic interaction with the users - for them to relax and play. The seat and backrest are flexible and adjustable in a way that they are able to follow users’ preferred sitting positions and their movements while sitting. It also has a minimal structure: seat and backrest supported by a simple frame (61x61x61cm), giving the seat floating and chair lightweight.
Dimensions & Packaging
The chair is in a "perfect cube" structure: 61x61x61cm.
Tags
Chair, Sustainable, Playful, Moveable Seats, Swing
Production Technology
The material here I used Oak wood for the structure, plywood for the seat and backrest, cotton cord for the swing, and rubber screw to connect the backrest.
Design Challenge
The hardest part of this design is to control the level of movement, which is affected by the design as well as the material. Allowing too much movement would cause a user to fall off the chair. The thick cotton cord has rough texture and thus create good friction with the wood, in this way, it allows the seat to still create movements but in a controlled and safe way.
Inspiration
This chair is inspired by the swing. I want to incorporate the playfulness and movement of swing into a chair which is normally considered to have a fixed angle between seat and backrest.
Project Duration
This project is completed in Copenhagen in 2017; the duration of design and production took around 2 months.
Operation Flow
Both the seat and backrest are adjustable based on user's movement. The angle between the seat and backrest could be adjusted from 120 to 133 degree (please see the image above).

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