Zene Kursi Cunto by John G Williams is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2018 Abaalmarinta Birta ah ee A' Design Award in Naqshadeynta Farnijarka Competition Category.
BirFarnijar· 2018
Zene Kursi Cunto
Client: John G Williams
Abaalmarinta Birta ah ee A' Design Award Winner in Farnijar Category
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The Design
About Zene Kursi Cunto
Kursiga cuntada ee Zene dhirtiisa waxa uu ka soo dhicay geedaha deegaanka iyo naqshadda casriga ah ee Danishka. Sagxadaha khafiifka ah ee laga sameeyay geedka ash waa kuwo fudud oo adkaysi leh, waxayna taageeraan kuraasta la fadhiisto iyo dhabarradaha laga sameeyay alwaax adag oo u muuqda inay ka dul sabbaynayaan sagxadda. Qaababka qalooca ah ee kursiga la fadhiisto iyo dhabarka llooma sameynin qalloocinta alwaaxda, balse waxay ka dhalatay isku dhejinta iyo qaabaynta alwaax adag oo kuulan. Iyada oo taxane ah, sagxadaha khafiifka ah ee ash waxay bixiyaan isku xirnaan, iyo qalabka kala duwan ee deegaanka oo loo doortay kuraasta iyo dhabarradaha ayaa dhaliya xiiso iyo ku habboonaan.
The Recognition
About the Abaalmarinta Birta ah ee A' Design Award
Zene Kursi Cunto waa guuleystaha Abaalmarinta Birta ah ee A' Design Award, aqoonsi sharaf leh oo la siiyo naqshado wanaagsan oo buuxiya shuruudaha xirfadeed iyo kuwa warshadeed ee laga filayo hal-abuurro si wanaagsan loo naqshadeeyay. Guuleystayaasha Birta waxay muujiyaan xirfad weyn, takhasus sare, fahan khabiir iyo awood hal-abuur oo abuurayaashooda. Zene Kursi Cunto waa hal-abuur la filayo inuu noqdo mid aad loo tixgeliyo, la ixtiraamo oo la jecel yahay, wax ku ool ah oo cusub. Naqshadahan ku guuleystay Abaalmarinta Birta ah ee A' Design Award wuxuu isku daraa hab-dhaqannada ugu wanaagsan warshadda wuxuuna leeyahay sifooyin farsamo oo karti leh oo ku xiran aqoon iyo hibo. Dhammaystirkeeda awgeed, Zene Kursi Cunto waa mudan ixtiraam, waxaana loo naqshadeeyay inay keento hagaajin nololeed oo ka caawisa in adduunka laga dhigo meel ka wanaagsan.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This series of dining chairs have American ash frames and showcase different hardwood timbers for the seat/backrest combinations.
The chairs draw on the ancient art of 'coopering' or how oak barrels are made for fermentation purposes. The curved forms of the seat/backrest are not formed by bending but rather by joining and shaping solid hardwood timber.
The chair strives to be very strong and beautiful. In short: Zene -
elegant, comfortable and dependable. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 515mm wide x 570mm deep x 890mm high
seat: 515mm wide x 390mm deep
back:515mm wide x 200mm high - Tags
- zene, dining chair, south africa, hardwood, curved, cooper, danish modern, minimalist
- Production Technology
- The Zene design evolved over a number of years. The starting point was probably a fascination with the art of coopering and how this has been applied to furniture design. Building the segmented seat and backrests took some practice to perfect, as did the development of custom modifications to standard workshop tools to shape and finish the smoothly shaped forms.
- Design Challenge
- Building the coopered seat/backrests was challenging as it required careful attention to the compression forces on the material and how best to achieve high compression without causing the seats to 'implode'.
Shaping the rough seats into finely finished and smooth curves required considerable re-working of the custom tooling to achieve the desired results - Research
- Danish modern designs were studied and absorbed to consider different ways of rendering the frame, and its relationship to the seat, and to think through the spatial relationship of the seat to the backrest.
Web search was used to think about typical dimensions for the seat but in the end prototyping proved most fun. - Inspiration
- The beauty grain and colour of indigenous African timber was a key aesthetic inspiration for this project. The more technical inspiration for the overall work, including the frame design came from iconic designers such as Hans J Wegner (for example the CH20 Elbow Chair). The coopering technique was inspired by Ontario furniture designer Adrian Ferrazzutti.
- Project Duration
- The first prototype was conceived in Johannesburg in 2007. It was slowly refined as background task over 10 years, and the first set of 6 chairs was produced in 2017
- Operation Flow
- Zene is designed mainly for use at the dining table and is designed for extended dining comfort.
- Patents
- no patents pending
- Team Members
- John G Williams: designer, craftsman
- Image Credits
- all images by the designer: John G Williams
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