Guardians 家具套装 by Kamran Afshar Naderi 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

Guardians 家具套装

by Kamran Afshar Naderi

Client: Villasufia

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 家具 Category

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The Design

About Guardians 家具套装

《守护者》是一套限量版家具，包含一把座椅与一张桌子。其设计灵感源自兽形图像学——这类符号既出现在史前艺术中，也常见于地毯编织、陶艺等传统工艺之中。座椅尺寸为70×75×90厘米，造型贴合人体工学，坐感舒适；桌子尺寸为75×170×80厘米。每件作品均采用先进的三维打印系统结合玻璃纤维技术制作，并经手工精修而成。《守护者》旨在人与动物之间建立积极的情感联结。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Guardians 家具套装是 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Guardians 家具套装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。Guardians 家具套装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: The Guardians is a limited-edition line of furniture. It makes a positive connection between humans and animals by its design. The chairs are designed to be ergonomic and comfortable in mind.
Dimensions & Packaging: The size of the chair is 70*75*90 cm. The size of the table is 75*170*80 cm.
Tags: Animals, Modern, Geometrical, Guardians, Furniture, zoomorphic, iconography
Production Technology: These objects belong to a set of furniture produced by a state-of-the-art 3d printing system combined with fiberglass technology and handcrafting for the final refinements.
Design Challenge: The main challenge was to meet the market demand for modern furniture in various forms of protective symbols, transforming the animal shapes to the pieces with the same emotion, joining performance and aesthetics beside emotional connection between the Guardians and the users.
Research: In designing Guardians, the designer studied the anatomy of the animals for creating objects that evoke energy and agility.
Inspiration: For millenniums, animals have been an inseparable part of human life. Zoomorphic motives dominated prehistoric art and have survived up until our era. Traditional crafts, such as carpet weaving and pottery, draw inspiration from the zoomorphic iconography. Positive human-animal relationships can provoke positive emotions, in fact, animals have been a source of inspiration for many modern artists and designers.
Project Duration: The project has been designed and presented in the Patternitecture exhibition in Tehran in August 2021.
Operation Flow: This project is designed to encourage the sense of thinking, reasoning, and not simply disregarding the events and the world around.
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer, Farzad Bagherzadeh, Photography, 2021
Image #2: Photographer, Farzad Bagherzadeh, Photography, 2021
Image #3: Photographer, Farzad Bagherzadeh, Photography, 2021
Image #4: Photographer, Farzad Bagherzadeh, Photography, 2021
Image #5: Photographer, Farzad Bagherzadeh, Photography, 2021