Kodama Bar Stool Nofoa Pa by Marshall Wollum

Kodama Bar Stool Nofoa Pa by Marshall Wollum is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Apamemea in Mamanu Meafale Competition Category.

ApamemeaMeafale· 2021

Kodama Bar Stool Nofoa Pa

by Marshall Wollum

Client: Kodama Designs

A' Design Award Apamemea Winner in Meafale Category

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The Design

About Kodama Bar Stool Nofoa Pa

Kodama Bar Stool o se nofoa laupapa ua fuafuaina mo le faaaogaina i luga o kaunita ma pa. O le mamanu e mulimuli i se auala Japandi ma se foliga faavae ma faalenatura. O le walnut ma le applewood e felagolagomai e faailoa mai ai le fatuina moni o laupapa, lea o loo tumau pea ona vaaia. O le poto masani i galuega laupapa ua tuufaatasia ma se CNC router, lea e mafai ai ona sili atu le lavelave ma le saʻo o le fatuina. O le nofoa e 45 cm le lautele, 54 cm le loloto ma 66 cm le maualuga. O le igoa Kodama o lona uiga o le agaga o le laau, ma o le mamanu o loo faailoa ai le faafetai i le laupapa o se mea faafouina.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Apamemea

O le A' Design Award Apamemea na manumalo ai Kodama Bar Stool Nofoa Pa, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu ese e iloga i le fatufatuaʻi, le atamai ma le poto. O ē manumalo i le Apamemea o mea e iai le tomai atoa ma fatufatuaʻi mataʻina e faamaonia ai le poto masani tele, le mafaufau ma le atamai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina Kodama Bar Stool Nofoa Pa e avea ma mea e vivii tele, ua pelepelea, e iloga i le tomai faapolofesa ma mea fou. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Apamemea e tuufaatasia ai faiga sili i le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi ma e sili ona lelei i le mataituina o mea itiiti. Kodama Bar Stool Nofoa Pa e faamalieina matagofie manaʻoga, pa i manaʻo, faalataina lagona ma faaosofia le fia iloa.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: A subtle Japandi design with a grounded and organic aesthetic. The contrasting Walnut and Applewood highlight the stool's creative and original wood joinery. The Kodama Bar Stool is a blend of ancient techniques with modern technology to create a piece that will hopefully endure for generations, in both construction and design aesthetic.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 45cm, Depth 54cm, Height 66cm
Tags: Wood joinery, stool, furniture, autocad, fusion 360, cnc router, cnc machine
Production Technology: The challenge of this project was devising a method to program the powerful CNC router to delicately manifest the design through complex coding of the toolpaths and precision workholdings of the components on the machine. This innovative process has many more exciting years of refinement ahead as we are just beginning to open the door to a new era of parametric design and manufacturing that will allow human creativity to flourish with these new capabilities.
Design Challenge: This is a new field of manufacturing with little education opportunities available so I'm self-taught and continually making everything up as I go. I wake up every day feeling like the luckiest guy in the world to be on this creative adventure.
Inspiration: The word Kodama translates to the "spirit of the tree". The intent behind the Kodama Bar Stool is to pay tribute to wood, one of our world's most renewable materials, and to honor the tree that granted us its life's work.
The goal of this project was to combine the knowledge of traditional woodworking with a CNC router to accomplish joinery that was previously unobtainable in complexity and precision.
Project Duration: The project started in 2016 in the mountains of Colorado and was finished in Southern California in March 2019.
Operation Flow: Visible and honest wood joinery designed to hopefully endure through generations of daily use.