Gold Furniture Design · 2021
Spring Multifunctional Chair
- A' Design Award 2021 Gold Winner in Furniture Design
- Awarded April 15, 2021
- CLIENT: NG Architects
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 48,822
- Verification code 7E035668A0 · Verify this award
About Spring Multifunctional Chair
Spring is a multifunctional wooden chair designed for small rooms. Spring transforms with a single push, through built-in compression springs. The same piece can serve as a chair, as a table or as a standing table for events. The form is inspired by a flower bud that opens like a blossom. The main material is oak wood in natural and white colors. Wooden sheets are layered and then cut into circular pieces. The compression springs are made of aluminum. All sizes follow standard human ergonomics, so the furniture saves space in compact homes.
Within the contemporary landscape of furniture design, Navid Ghandili's Spring Multifunctional Chair emerges as a thoughtful meditation on form, function, and the enduring human desire for adaptable living environments. The design demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of volumetric composition, employing the cylinder as primary generative geometry while introducing subtle variations through stacking, scale modulation, and strategic material transitions that transform a fundamental geometric primitive into a family of related yet distinct functional objects. The warm material palette, dominated by natural oak surfaces and cream-toned exterior wrapping, suggests an affinity with Scandinavian design traditions that have long privileged the honest expression of natural materials, the celebration of wood grain character, and the pursuit of democratic beauty through restrained formal vocabulary. Technical accomplishment manifests in the seamless integration of disparate functional requirements within unified sculptural forms, the curved cutaway revealing cushioned seating speaks to ergonomic consideration without compromising visual coherence, while the flat oak surfaces provide practical utility for display and daily use. The live-edge treatment on certain pieces introduces controlled naturalistic irregularity that counterbalances the geometric precision of the cylindrical volumes, suggesting dialogue between human fabrication and organic material origin. Thematically, the work appears to explore questions of spatial efficiency and visual calm, proposing furniture that serves multiple purposes while maintaining the contemplative quietude increasingly valued in domestic environments. The staging context, with its carefully curated accessories including flowering branches and circular artwork, positions the design within broader conversations about biophilic integration and the role of natural elements in fostering wellbeing. The circular motifs recurring throughout the composition, from furniture form to background artwork, establish visual rhythm while potentially evoking associations with wholeness, cyclical renewal, and the seasonal reference embedded in the design name itself. Viewers might consider how such furniture transforms the relationship between object and space, inviting reflection on what we ask our domestic environments to provide.
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- Unique Properties
- This multifunctional wooden chair designed in a modern way and it transforms with just one push, like pushing buttons by built-in compression springs inside it. This chair is useable in small rooms that need more space. These chairs can set as two chairs and a table or all of them as stands in events. All sizes designed according to the standard ergonomic of human body.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Table: Width 900 mm x Depth 900 mm x Height 500 mm
Chair: Width 900 mm x Depth 900 mm x Height 700 mm
Stand: Width 900 mm x Depth 900 mm x Height 900 mm - Tags
- Multifunctional, Chair, Table, Stand, Compact, Wooden, Spring
- Production Technology
- The main material is Oak wood with natural and white colors.Wooden sheets are laid out then cut into circle pieces. Built-in compression springs are made of aluminum.
- Design Challenge
- This is a challenge for more comfort in places where there is a lack of space.
- Project Duration
- The project started in January 2020 in Tehran-Iran and finished in February 2020.
- Operation Flow
- It transforms with just one push, like pushing buttons by built-in compression springs inside it.
- Research
- Achieve a design with more functionality while taking up less space was this research's priority. Living in crowded cities and Increasing population has made living rooms smaller. Due to the lack of space for furniture, by designing multifunctional appliances users can reclaim these occupied spaces and make small spaces seem not too small.
- Inspiration
- Living in crowded cities and Increasing population has made living rooms smaller. Due to the lack of space for furniture, by designing multifunctional appliances users can reclaim these occupied spaces and make small spaces seem not too small. The design of this chair is inspired by a flower bud. It opens like a blossom and it will be reminiscent of spring.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Navid Ghandili, 2020.
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