Gis 椅子 by Sepehr Mehrdadfar is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 银奖 in 家具设计 Competition Category.

银家具· 2022

Gis 椅子

by Sepehr Mehrdadfar

Client: Hamoun

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 家具 Category

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The Design

About Gis 椅子

Gis是一款三腿木质座椅,配以青铜椅脚,由两段胡桃木原木以精湛工艺雕琢而成,宛如一件雕塑作品。木材天然的木节与疤痕被刻意保留、裸露呈现,赋予作品独特的个性。尽管外形看似奇特,Gis却因曲线与角度的精心设计而符合人体工学。该设计是对实木可能性的一次探索,亦是在艺术与设计、美感与功能之间边界上的一次行走。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Gis 椅子是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Gis 椅子将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Gis 椅子是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Gis is a three-legged wooden chair with bronze feet and is carved out from two walnut logs with exquisite craftsmanship to seem as a sculpture. The wood knots and scars are remained exposed to give the objects a special characteristic. Despite its uncanny appearance, Gis is ergonomic due to the careful design of curves and angles. The design is an exploration of solid wood possibilities and also is a walk on the edge of "Art" and "Design", "Beauty" and "Function".
Dimensions & Packaging: width 600mm
depth 1000 mm
height 800 mm
Tags: Design, Chair, Furniture, Art, Persian, Contemporary
Production Technology: Materials: Walnut Solid Wood, Bronze.
Completely Handcrafted.
Design Challenge: The holy grail of this design was to reach a sculptural Persian aesthetic as the sprit for the body of “furniture design”.
Research: This chair is a part of the Konj-e-Hess collection.
This collection is an exploration through which we try to answer a question: “Unrelated to the surrounding space, can we create objects that intrinsically radiate a place of their own, and create a “Konj-e-Hess”.
Konj-e-Hess was after a new measuring unit for aesthetics in design. Quite similar to how Iran and its culture sit in the middle on the world map, Konj-e-Hess tells a centrist narrative too. Somewhere on a sharp blade, it cuts off “tenacious design assumptions”; preconceived notions of the sort that “Media” inundates our minds with.
Inspiration: Gis has odd yet familiar visual qualities. That is why it steals the spotlight and sets its own place. The main leg's dainty form is inspired by a girl's ponytail; the premise from which the chair takes its name from. In Farsi, "Gis" means the tumble of a woman’s hair.
Project Duration: The project started in March 2019 and finished in September 2019 in Tehran, Iran and was exhibited as a part of "Konj-e-Hess" exhibition.
Operation Flow: Gis has sculptural qualities in its presence in the interior space. This chair is designed with an artistic approach in design to be a "good chair" and also an elegence piece of "art".
Image Credits: Main Image: Photo by Kaj Art Group
Image #1: Photo by Kaj Art Group
Image #2: Photo by Sepehr Mehrdadfar, Hamoun
Image #3: Photo by Sepehr Mehrdadfar, Hamoun
Image #4: Photo by Sepehr Mehrdadfar, Hamoun