GanDan 长凳 by ChenYu, ShinChi, BoCheng and JieYi

GanDan 长凳 by ChenYu, ShinChi, BoCheng and JieYi 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

GanDan 长凳

by ChenYu, ShinChi, BoCheng and JieYi

Client: Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Deparment

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 家具 Category

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The Design

About GanDan 长凳

这是一款以蚕纺茧自然为灵感的手工长凳，参照日本青森县的传统工艺，将金色柚木单板通过连续缠绕层层缠绕成型，呈现出丝丝的美感。饰面渐变，形成完美的流线型长凳。看起来像木板凳一样硬，但坐起来却是柔软的感觉。制作时没有任何废料或废料，相对环保。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

GanDan 长凳是 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GanDan 长凳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。GanDan 长凳出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Most of the wooden furniture is mainly made of solid wood, which can only show a soft feeling in the modeling lines, but the entity is hard, and will produce a lot of waste during the production process. GanDan is a handcrafted bench, using veneer as the main expression, inspired by silkworm spinning and cocooning and by enlacing method to windup the shape of a bench, it produces a gradual beauty through continuous winding. It looks hard like the wooden bench but soft elasticity feel when sitting on. Without any waste or scrap when it was made which is relatively environmentally friendly.
Dimensions & Packaging: Material: Golden Teak Veneer
Size: Length900mm x Width300mm x Height450mm
Tags: Bench, HandCraft, Golden Teak, Veneer, Enlace, Bunaco, Cocooning
Production Technology: Material: golden teak wood veneer, wood, foam.
Production technology: CNC milling, lathe, foam Wire cutting
Handcraft Technique: Bunaco wrapping and enlacing veneer ribbon, manual polish.
Design Challenge: BUNACO's traditional craftsmanship mainly uses beech wood as the main material, and we have also tried to use sharba wood (that is, plane wood), which is thicker, easy to break, and entangled very hard. The change of shape, how to wind the veneer symmetrically and regularly bothered us. We found the golden teak veneer by chance and found that the gloss and softness of it were the most appropriate.
Research: Taiwan’s woodworking craftsmanship has a long history. In recent years, with the advancement of the technology industry, most of the demand for wooden furniture on the market has been produced in large quantities by industrial machine processing methods. Handmade furniture is gradually being replaced, and the value of hand-made woodworking crafts has gradually been lost. The masses ignore. Taking BUNACO as the research theme, I hope that wooden furniture can be presented in the most gentle way, and find this traditional craft technique originated from Aomori Prefecture, Japan.
Inspiration: Inspired by the silkworm spinning and cocooning, with reference to the traditional craftsmanship of Aomori Prefecture, Japan, take shape by enlacing the golden teak wood veneer. Continuous wrapped in circles and layers, showing the beauty of veneer gradation.
Project Duration: The project started in August 2020 in Taiwan , completed in February 2021, first debut in March and will exhibit in Young Designers’ Exhibition in World Trade Center, May 2021.
Operation Flow: Taking shape of the bench by wrapping and enlacing wood veneer in Bunaco style, with foam inside the cocoon sphere, it looks hard like the wooden bench but soft elasticity when sitting. Since the production procedure is wrapping and enlacing with wood veneer, no waste or scrap of wood produced.
Team Members: Instructor:ChungSheng Chen
Designer:ChenYu Shih
Designer:ShinChi Yang
Designer:BoCheng Guo
Designer:JieYi Chen
Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Dept.
Image Credits: Photo Credit:
ChenYu Shih
ShinChi Yang
BoCheng Guo
JieYi Chen