Wings 休闲椅 by Wei Jingye and Wu Yanxia 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

Wings 休闲椅

by Wei Jingye and Wu Yanxia

Client: Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 家具 Category

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The Design

About Wings 休闲椅

Wings是一款以蝴蝶动态为灵感的休闲椅。其造型借鉴了蝴蝶双翼在不同状态下的形态，为静态的实体注入了生命感。椅背与坐面中部相连，坐面向两侧展开，包裹臀部，带来更佳的舒适度。椅腿采用双层支撑结构，提升了整体稳定性。座椅以蓝色半透明塑料通过3D打印一体成型。外表面带有条纹肌理，既呼应了蝶翼纹路，又增加了摩擦力。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Wings 休闲椅是 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Wings 休闲椅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。Wings 休闲椅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 "Wings" chair is a leisure chair design, made of plastic and integrated technology. The appearance of the product is inspired by the movement of butterflies, aiming to show signs of life from solid objects; The back of the chair is connected with the middle part of the seat surface. The seat surface on both sides is open to surround people's entire hips, making people sit up more comfortable. The design of the legs is double-decker support to increase the support and expressive force of the chair.
Dimensions & Packaging: 655mm x 710mm x 785mm, The seat is 3D printed in one piece, and each structure is tightly connected, which made of blue translucent plastic material. The outer part of the chair has striated concave-convex texture to match the wing pattern of a butterfly, at the same time increase the friction force and quality performance of the seat, integrated design convenient transportation, at the same time modeling freedom is also higher.
Tags: The butterfly, Wings, Bionic modeling, Leisure, Vitality
Production Technology: The leisure chair is an integral structure, made of 3D printing integral forming technology, the whole is blue translucent plastic material, the outer shape has stripes and concave, in order to increase the friction of the seat.
Design Challenge: Seek the organic combination of solid seat mechanism and butterfly vitality, increase the sense of power of the product in modeling, with blue translucent plastic material to enhance the expressive force of the seat, so that users have a more comfortable and pleasant use experience.
Research: This seat in butterfly wings form as a source for design, interconnected seat structure, chair leg open seat surface show a seat compact feeling, let chair itself is stronger, the legs of the design of supporting structure is more strengthened the bearing capacity of the chair, on the surface of the bridge to the inclusion of design improves the comfort, connection out chair at the same time, make the form more expressive and vitality, Let users have a better use experience.
Inspiration: As a creature as a prototype for the design of the "Wings" chair, has a unique bionic modelling, mainly in butterfly Wings as the prototype, the butterfly resting, long Wings, has formed the design of the chair, when butterflies to fly, Wings flap, open on both sides of the seat surface structure is created, design through the Wings under different status of different forms, Let people feel and experience the existence of life in objects.
Project Duration: The design had started in Shenyang in March 2021, completed in Shenyang in June 2021, and displayed in the museum of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang in June in 2021.
Operation Flow: Suitable for leisure and entertainment, sit with your feet down, no matter reading, drinking tea or relaxing, the part of the back of the seat with wrapped nature brings the user a sense of safety and comfort, at the same time, the vitality of the shape can also be used for interior decoration.
Team Members: Wei Jingye
Wu Yanxia
Shi Mengjiao
Ma Wenhui