Butterfly 椅子 by Wei Jingye and Wang Yiqin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 家具设计 Competition Category.
铜家具· 2021
Butterfly 椅子
Client: Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts
A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 家具 Category
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About Butterfly 椅子
蝴蝶椅的设计灵感源自蝴蝶的形态。设计师提取蝶翼的曲线,并将其演化为座面、靠背与椅腿的造型。靠背与座面顺应双翼舒展的动势分为两部分。该椅采用高速钢材质,通过3D打印一体成型,兼具良好的强度与金属光泽。结构稳固,造型与结构融合得当。此椅可用于休憩、阅读及空间装饰。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 铜奖
Butterfly 椅子是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Butterfly 椅子将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Butterfly 椅子出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This chair is designed with the butterfly as the source of inspiration, gradually transformed from the basic shape of the butterfly, and finally developed this kind of butterfly chair.The structure is stable, and the overall furniture has a good fusion of shape and structure. This furniture adopts 3D printing technology and uses high-speed steel as raw material for better strength. On the whole, it can cater to the aesthetic and leisure needs of modern people.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 906 mm × 942 mm × 808mm, the furniture is integrally formed by 3D printing, the processing procedure is concise, and the operation is simple; additive manufacturing, saving materials and not easy to waste; high degree of freedom in modeling.
- Tags
- Shoulder blade, high-speed steel, organic form, bionic modeling, 3D printing
- Production Technology
- The whole is made of high-speed steel as raw material, and processed and shaped by 3D printing technology. The overall strength is good, showing a metallic luster, fully showing the beauty of the material itself, and adding color to the overall shape.
- Design Challenge
- Realize the organic integration of the three forms of seat surface, backrest, and chair legs, find the most beautiful curved surface angle and achieve the coordinated proportion of each part. achieve the organic unity of furniture shape and structure.
- Research
- This seat is designed with the human body's scapula as inspiration, the smooth lines of the back are extracted, and the basic shape of the scapula is evolved and developed to form the seat.
- Inspiration
- The design extracts the shape of the butterfly in the nature as the inspiration for the design. The butterfly chair shape extracts the momentum of the butterfly to divide the back and the seat surface into two parts, and at the same time derive the overall shape based on it.The curve shape of the chair legs is to extract the back curve produced by the butterfly wings. The furniture as a whole tries to simulate the vertical dynamics of the butterfly to obtain a different kind of beauty from it, and to provide an unusual curve beauty for the indoor home.
- Project Duration
- It will start in Shenyang in January 2021 and will be completed in Shenyang in February 2021.
- Operation Flow
- Sitting with your feet down, the structure of the seat and back helps support your spine and helps people use the seat correctly. Used for rest, reading, decoration and other functions.
- Team Members
- Wei Jingye
Wang Yiqin
Li Fengze
Lu Xinyu
Xin Xu
Zou Liyang
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