Chair of Soul Kursi by Wen Jenq Cherng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award in Naqshadeynta Farnijarka Competition Category.
NaxaasFarnijar· 2020
Chair of Soul Kursi
Client: Cherng's Work
Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award Winner in Farnijar Category
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About Chair of Soul Kursi
Kursiga Ruuxda waa kursi loogu talagalay in uu jidhka ku taageero dhab-joog istaag deggan. Dhererka fadhiga, taageerada dhabarka ee dhexda iyo taageerayaasha gacmaha ayaa qaada culayska jidhka sare. Dhabarka si yar u qalloocan ayaa raaca qaabka jidhka una fududeeya xanuunka garbaha, qoorta, dhexda iyo addimada. Alaabta guriga ee dhaqameed ee Boqortooyada Ming ayaa siisa qaab-dhismeedka aasaasiga ah ee saamiyada fudud. Qoryaha ebony ee ka yimid Sulawesi ayaa sameeya qaab-dhismeedka ugu weyn, oo lagu daraa lugo tuubbo naxaas ah iyo fadhi maqaar Nappa ah oo guduud madow ah. Xidhmooyinka mortise iyo tenon ayaa isku xira qaybaha, halka qaab-dhismeed leexasho ah uu ku xiro lugaha fadhiga.
The Recognition
About the Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award
Chair of Soul Kursi waa guuleystaha Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award, aqoonsi sharaf sare leh oo la siiyo naqshado aan caadi ahayn oo lagu garto hal-abuur, hal-abuur cusub iyo caqli. Guuleystayaasha Naxaasta waa shaqooyin xirfad buuxda leh iyo hal-abuur yaab leh oo xaqiijiya khibrad weyn, male-awaal iyo kartida naqshadeeyayaashooda. Chair of Soul Kursi waa walax la filayo inay noqoto mid aad loo tixgeliyo, la ixtiraamo oo la jecel yahay, xirfad cad leh oo hal-abuur cusub leh. Naqshadahan ku guuleystay Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award wuxuu ku darsadaa hab-dhaqanno ugu wanaagsan farshaxanka, sayniska, naqshadaynta iyo tignoolajiyada wuxuuna ku fiican yahay dhawrista tafaasiisha. Chair of Soul Kursi si fiican ayay u buuxisaa baahiyaha, taabataa rabitaannada, soo jiidataa dareenka kicinayaanna xiisaha aqoonta.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Chair of Soul is my entry point of use as a starting point for design thinking. Since I have long been practicing meditation for destressing and calming my body and mind, I am hoping the design of the chair could reflect a completely relaxed condition for the body. Overall design is thereby focused on its function, where the user would sit upright on the chair and his or her upper-body weight be perfectly supported through the height of the chair, the backrest at the waist, and the armrests.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- When producing a hereditary chair, what is more important than ensuring its functions is finding ways to incorporate visual aesthetics. I am using Chinese traditional Ming Dynasty style furniture as my blueprint, borrowing its elegant and simple exterior design and principles on proportion. And through enhancement of overall structural system, a unique arc structure is used as the support that connects the legs and the seat of the chair.
- Tags
- Product, Chair, Health, Oriental, Furniture
- Production Technology
- The curvature of the slightly bulging backrest embraces the body; this waist-supporting chair design offers supports for the human body, so that tensions around user’s shoulders, neck, waist, and limbs would all be relieved–user would be welcomed with a comforting sensation similar to a hug.
- Design Challenge
- Pairing the material with the metallic copper tube of the legs and the purple cow Nappa leather seat, harmony, elegance, stability, and sustainability are incorporated altogether to bring forth a chair that user could converse with, the chair I dub – Chair of Soul.
- Research
- A chair that is aimed to improve the users health would need to value the choice of material as equally important as the design that would fit precisely to human body proportions. I have especially chosen the ebony produced in Sulawesi, Indonesia as the chair’s main structure element; its fine material and deep-black colored lines flawlessly interpret the sophistication that the chair should exhibit.
- Inspiration
- We have always had different thoughts in regards to chairs. This piece of furniture with a long history of evolution has always been deemed irreplaceable in home interior. How should a classic chair, which one hopes to pass down for generations and stay eternally quintessential, be presented?
- Project Duration
- The project started in December 2016 and finished in December 2018.
- Operation Flow
- The design is further complemented by the mortice and tenon joint as the reinforcing linkage between parts, bringing betterment to the complex composition found in old-fashioned traditional furniture. In addition to strengthening the chair’s mechanics system, a simplistic and spiritual appearance is thereby created for the chair.
- Team Members
- Designer: Wen-Jenq Cherng
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