Colored Finch Primary Function: Nofoa by Wingstone Casa

Colored Finch Primary Function: Nofoa by Wingstone Casa is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Ario in Mamanu Meafale Competition Category.

ArioMeafale· 2021

Colored Finch Primary Function: Nofoa

by Wingstone Casa

Client: Wingstone Casa

A' Design Award Ario Winner in Meafale Category

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The Design

About Colored Finch Primary Function: Nofoa

O le Colored Finch o se nofoa na musuia mai le foliga o se manulele finch. O le tua e foliga saʻo mai luma ma piʻo i itu, e tuʻufaʻatasia ai le foliga ma le mafanafana. O le tua ma le nofoaga e faia mai fafie tele apa na faia i lima, e faʻatulaga o ni fafie piʻo apa lua. O vae o ni paipa uʻamea ua ufiufi i apa o ie na lalaga i lima. O le faʻatapulaʻaina o le faʻaaogaina o mea le mafai ona toe faʻafouina i vae e lagolagoina ai le tausiga o le siʻosiʻomaga. E sefulul ono faʻataʻitaʻiga na fausia, ma na faʻaaogaina se pepe faʻataʻitaʻi e suʻesuʻe ai tulaga o le nofonofo ma faʻatulaga ai le lapopoʻa mulimuli. O le nofoa e 490 mm le lautele, 550 mm le loloto ma le 810 mm le maualuga.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Ario

O le A' Design Award Ario na manumalo ai Colored Finch Primary Function: Nofoa, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu sili ona lelei, matagofie ma mataʻutia. O ē manumalo i le Ario o galuega susulu tele ma fatufatuaʻi e faaalia ai le poto, le taleni ma le atamai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina Colored Finch Primary Function: Nofoa e avea ma galuega matagofie, o se fesuiaiga mo isi, e iloga i le tomai faapolofesa ma mea fou loloto. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Ario o se mea e iloga, ua mataʻina e aogā ma tuleia atu tapulaʻa o le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi. Colored Finch Primary Function: Nofoa o se mea e fiafia i ai le toatele, e fafagu ai manaʻoga, aumaia ai lagona lelei ma tupu ai le ofo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Colored Finch Chair, the artistic furniture created altogether by Professor Chang KeFei and Wing Stones that was finalized as a design project in May 2020.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 490mm x Depth 550mm x Height 810mm
Tags: Chair, Furniture, Product, Homeware, Design
Production Technology: To make the chair both stylish and comfortable, the designer made the backrest look straight upfront and curved on the side. Given these considerations, the designer asked the factory to use the double-layer curved wood according to the Rhino model of product. To make entire chair thin and light, the production team needed to develop the suitable metal parts so to manufacture the finished product.
Design Challenge: We had changed some suppliers before finding the ideal manufacture to impeccably embody the furniture. It required a challenging craftmanship to complete Colored Finch Chair, which demanded extraordinary expertise for manufacturing. During the process, the brand owner and the designer endured diverse pressures. They had to confirmed repeatedly with the cooperative manufacture. It was the hardship of creation.
Research: Colored Finch Chair is a piece of composite furniture whose backrest and chair seat were made of the handmade multi-layer woods. The chair legs were made of metal tubes uniformly laminated by handmade fabrics. The minimized usage of non-renewable materials for chair legs exemplifies the creation based on environmental protection.
Inspiration: The design idea of Colored Finch Chair was inspired from the fairy in nature—finches.
The bird observes all things in nature in trees. It looks proud and free, and its splendid wings covering the round body figuratively exemplify the fairy painting on the green canvas of nature.
The designer thoroughly observing the postures of bird discovered the most general bird’s shapes artistically converted into the design of furniture, thus adding a touch of spiritual atmosphere of nature in the space.
Project Duration: Proposal confirmation in May 2020.
Market launch in October 2020.
Operation Flow: There were 16 prototypes of Colored Finch Chair, which means that the model of Colored Finch Chair was modified for 16 times in the phase of modeling. The scenarios were simulated by applying the medical dummy to the different usages of chair so to determine the size of chair and the final project. After finalizing the shape of chair, the designer generated the rendering. In this phase, the product in rendering was simulated so to discover the best materials, and its scale was examined in the final run.
Team Members: Designer: Ke-Fei Zhang
Designer: Hui-Zi Zhang
Image Credits: Image #1-5: Photographer WINGSTONE CASA, Colored Finch, 2020.