V Stool 自组装无靠背凳 by Le Xu 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

V Stool 自组装无靠背凳

by Le Xu

Client: Zhijiang college of zhejiang university of technology

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 家具 Category

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The Design

About V Stool 自组装无靠背凳

V Stool 是一款可自行组装的座椅，采用榉木或重组竹制成，并配以亚克力部件。该设计运用了全新的榫卯结构，借助木材本身的天然弹性，并结合燕尾锁扣。无需任何独立连接件，因此仅需三四个步骤即可徒手完成拆卸与组装。V Stool 尺寸为360 × 360 × 450毫米。平板包装降低了运输成本，也适合线上销售。简约的造型专为居住空间有限、经常搬家的年轻用户而设计。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

V Stool 自组装无靠背凳是 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V Stool 自组装无靠背凳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。V Stool 自组装无靠背凳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: V Stool is designed for the characteristics of the post-90s life, made of solid wood materials, simple and stylish, clever use of tenon-and-mortise work, full of strong visual impact. V Stool integrates the aesthetics and structure highly, The structure uses the elasticity of the wood itself to innovate the design, and then combines with the dovetail lock. The product itself does not have any connecting parts, and can be disassembled and installed with bare hands. The flat design can greatly reduce the transportation cost and is very suitable for sale on the Internet.
Dimensions & Packaging: 360mm×360mm×450mm
Tags: V、S
Production Technology: Production technology: wood cutting, acrylic CNC; material: beech or integrated bamboo, acrylic.
Design Challenge: The most challenging part is its structural design. According to the toughness of the wood or bamboo material itself, a new tenon-and-mortise structure is innovatively designed to realize the disassembly and assembly function and firmness of the V-Stool. The presentation of its structural shape perfectly blends with contemporary aesthetics!
Research: Nowadays, the post-90s have low income, small living space, love online shopping, move frequently, and pursue a certain quality of life. They need flexible, space-saving, easily accessible, simple and stylish furniture to improve their quality of life. V Stool is designed for this group of people. Its shape is simple and fashionable, with complete functions, convenient storage, ingenious structure, and can be disassembled and assembled manually. The flat packaging design greatly reduces the shipping cost, so the price of the product is more affordable.
Inspiration: The current post-90s population has lower income, narrow living space, loves online shopping, often moves, and pursues a certain quality of life. By designing a flexible and versatile, space-saving, easy-to-transport, simple and stylish furniture to enhance the quality of life.It is hoped that based on the traditional tenon-and-mortise structure, combined with the toughness of wood or bamboo materials, a new tenon-and-mortise structure can be designed, which can realize a stool with a high degree of integration of disassembly and assembly functions, firmness and aesthetics!
Project Duration: The project started in September 2019in Hangzhou and finished in May 2020 in Hangzhou.
Operation Flow: Open the product package, assemble the product in 3-4 steps, the operation is very convenient, you can experience the fun of assembly, and the assembled product is very strong and durable.
Team Members: Xu Le
Yang Cunyuan
Zhou Jiayu