Brahma Setulo sa Thapelo ea Kutloelo-bothong by Ilya Legchatov

Brahma Setulo sa Thapelo ea Kutloelo-bothong by Ilya Legchatov is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award in Moralo wa Fenitjhara Competition Category.

TšepeFenitjhara· 2022

Brahma Setulo sa Thapelo ea Kutloelo-bothong

by Ilya Legchatov

Client: Ilya Legchatov

Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award Winner in Fenitjhara Category

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The Design

About Brahma Setulo sa Thapelo ea Kutloelo-bothong

Buka ea Mongolo: Brahma ke setulo se etselitsoeng kutloelo-bothong le ho lula ka maoto a kopantsoeng. Sekulo se na le ntho e ntsoafalletseng ka tlas'a mokokotlo o tlase le kobo e hlalositsoeng hantle hammoho le ho sekama, kahoo likhusu tsa tlatsetso ha li hlokahale. Setulo se sebaka se pharaletseng se lumella mangole ho lula ka har'a poleiti ea setulo ha maoto a kopanngoa. Foreime e entsoe ka polouko e khokelanngoeng ka glue e kobehileng, foamo ea rabara le tlhomamo, athe maoto a entsoe ka beech e tiileng. Maoto a menyang a khomariloe foreimeng ka mabolo a mane, e le hore setulo se lule se bobebe le se nka-nkehang habonolo. Brahma e beha kutloelo-bothong tlas'a moaho oa sejoale-joale e le sebopeho se ikhethang sa thepa ea ka tlung.

The Recognition

About the Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award

Brahma Setulo sa Thapelo ea Kutloelo-bothong ke mohapi oa Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award, kananelo e hlomphehang e fuoang meralo e metle e finyellang litlhoko tsa porofeshenale le tsa indasteri tse lebelletsoeng ho lintho tse hlahisitsoeng tse entsoeng hantle. Bahapi ba Tšepe ba bontša bokhoni bo boholo, bokhethehi bo phahameng, kutloisiso ea litsebi le bokhoni ba boqapi ba baqapi ba bona. Brahma Setulo sa Thapelo ea Kutloelo-bothong e lebelletsoe ho ba ntho e hlahisitsoeng e hlomphuoang haholo, e ratoang le e ratehang, e sebetsang le e nang le mehopolo e mecha. Moralo ona o hapileng Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award o kenyelletsa mekhoa e metle ka ho fetesisa ea indasteri mme o na le litšobotsi tsa theknoloji tse nang le bokhoni tse amanang le tsebo le talenta. Ka lebaka la botlalo ba eona, Brahma Setulo sa Thapelo ea Kutloelo-bothong e tšoanelehela tlhompho mme e entsoe ho fana ka ntlafatso ea bophelo e thusang ho etsa hore lefatše le be sebaka se molemo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Brahma is a chair for meditation and lovers of sitting cross-legged. Once the designer's personal meditation experience had dawned him on with the need for a special chair and its parameters. The uniqueness of the chair is in the ergonomics, which allows you to sit motionless for a long time in the lotus position, as well as in the fact that meditation as a phenomenonis given a worthy place of a self-sufficient piece of furniture for the first time in a modern interior.
Dimensions & Packaging: W880 mm D720 mm H960 mm
Tags: chair, Brahma chair, meditation chair, meditation, yoga
Production Technology: The chair was designed to be light weighted, easily assembled and portable. The frame consists of bent-glued plywood, foam rubber and upholstery. The legs are collapsible, assembled on 4 bolts. The material is masive beech. The legs are attached to the frame by 4 bolts.
Design Challenge: Creative challenge: A piece of furniture is needed specifically for meditation. In addition to its purely applied significance, such a subject has a social perspective to bring the phenomenon of meditation from the level of a suspicious hobby, overgrown with a pile of mossy prejudices, to the level of a prestigious universally recognized practice of modern educated people who are healthy in body, mind and soul.
Research: 15 years ago, the designer got interested in meditation as an ancient oriental self-discovery method. In purpose of practical research, for a number of years he's been visiting various meditation centers, including retreats with a Hindu spiritual guru.

As a result of the research, the designer came to the conclusion about universal benefits of meditation as a natural way of self-development. It inspired him to create a piece of furniture specifically for long and comfortable meditation.

Offering a meditation chair as an integral element of everyday interior, the designer aims to shift meditation from an exotic activity of marginal social groups to a daily practice for physical, psychological and spiritual self-development.
Inspiration: In the world of stress one looks for ways to clean up environment, heal the body and calm mind. It leads to meditation, for which home furniture is barely fit due to the armrests, the slope of a backrest, the width of a seat, and the heap of blankets and pillows on the floor alarms guests.

My own practice led me to settings of an ideal chair:
wide seat under knees
comfy back bend - no extra pillows
fine shape above the floor level.

Thus was born a ultimate item of modern interior.
Project Duration: The project had started in July 2017.
It was exhibited at SaloneSatellite WorldWide Moscow 2017. Then the chair became the winner of the National Award "Russian Cabriole" and the winner of competition in the field of industrial design "Art-League" in 2018.
After that the chair was exhibited at the Salone del Mobile.Milano.Moscow 2018 and 2019 at the stand of Elle Decoration, the Venice Design Biennale DESIGN.VE. in 2018, Salone del Mobile. Milano 2018 in the Lambrate Design District, Moscow Design Week 2018, MAISON&OBJET PARIS 2019 and other smaller exhibitions.
Operation Flow: The specificity of this chair is its ergonomics, which allows one to sit motionless in meditation for a long time. The whole point is in the form of a back with a protrusion under the lower back. Years of practice convinced the designer in the convenience of a certain bend and tilt of the backrest, which allows one to sit using no additional pillows. Also he added to this bend a wide seat that allows crossed legged sitting with knees not stuck out beyond the seat-plate.