Airy 办公桌 by Ivana Wingham is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 铁奖 in 办公家具设计 Competition Category.

铁办公家具· 2023

Airy 办公桌

by Ivana Wingham

Client: Ivana Wingham

A' Design Award 铁奖 Winner in 办公家具 Category

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The Design

About Airy 办公桌

艾里工作台是作为一个实验原型而设计的，以应对工作室空间变得越来越可互换的情况，其中设计舞台的识别锚就是自己的工作台。 Airy 跨越了定制家具的错综复杂性与极快的组装和拆卸过程之间的矛盾，适应了从一个地方到另一个地方的个人习惯。这个精心制作的原型具有移动性、功能性、适应性强，是我们工作空间中的定制朋友。它提供：轻便的移动性、正式的功能性和倾斜的适应性。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铁奖

Airy 办公桌是 A' Design Award 铁奖得主，这是授予满足人们对设计精良的创作所期待的专业与工业要求的优良设计的声望认可。铁奖得主展现出其创作者的高超技艺、高度专业化、专家级的理解力和创造能力。预计Airy 办公桌将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的创作，既实用又创新。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铁奖的设计整合了行业最佳实践，并拥有与专业知识和才华相结合的称职技术特性。Airy 办公桌因其严谨而受到尊重，旨在提供有助于让世界变得更美好的生活品质改善。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Airy is designer’s mobile worktable where studio is a space of a desk, be it inside or outside. Curved table-top surrounds the body. Airiness of design offers lightness and a thorough view of any background. Its four unique sides make it uniquely adaptable to any place. Carefully crafted, sturdy and light, it straddles the paradox between complexity of a bespoke furniture and extremely fast assembly and disassembly process.
Dimensions & Packaging: Due to its curved form and when fully assembled AIRY length and width dimensions vary depending how they are taken. Length is from 2200 to 2400 mm, width is from 600mm to 1000mm. The height of the tabletop is constant until it curves on one side and is 740mm. The packaging of the table would be packaging of its parts with instructions for home assembly.
Tags: Airy, Work Table, Bespoke, Adaptable, Mobile, Unique, Oblique, Functional
Production Technology: Airy work table’s production and materiality combine traditionally modernist techniques of making with digitally drawn precision of each element of the construction to provide 1:1 final production drawings while utilizing slow techniques to achieve a fast assembly process. Specially built two part presses were used to form curved panels. Glued, cross-grained ash veneers are laid between the two parts that are held together under pressure in the press. Metal support and legs were made from hollow bars resting on hollow studs. Side metalwork was laser cut and welded with great precision and finished in powder coating.
Design Challenge: Designed in the UK and made in Serbia the biggest challenge was making the large press for tabletop due to unavailability of large machine vacuum presses. The press was made from numerous layers of chipboard sheets cut to shape fastened by specially designed metal bars and layered with metal sheets. Another challenge was choice and thickness of veneered material in which oak veneer proved to be too porous and the first tabletop attempt was discarded. Final option worked extremely well with ash veneer.
Research: Design Research aim was to create a unique prototype for currently changing work space. Its objective was to make a bespoke design combined with a fast assembly and disassembly process. The method used was based on design and detailed drawings (1:1), high quality craft and numerous tests and experimentation on how to achieve such an outcome. While the prototype displays one option there is an opportunity to change such options without changing the nature of design.
Inspiration: As studio space becomes spatially and virtually interchangeable the identification anchor for design place becomes its own worktable. AIRY is such an identifier, like a favourite travel bag, it adapts to individual habits from one place to another. A beautiful traveller, this carefully crafted prototype is mobile, functional, adaptable and bespoke friend in our workspace. It offers: Light Mobility, Formal Functionality and Oblique Adaptability.
Project Duration: The project started in 2019 in London and was completed in 2021 in Serbia. The project is located at present in Serbia and it has not been yet exhibited publicly.
Operation Flow: Formal Functionality is present in airy-gap transitions between its parts for easy assemble and disassemble process. Oblique Adaptability is achieved by its design construction and materiality. Oblique Adaptability of the table makes its every elevation unique. Celebrating mobility, Airy anchors its place in each new environment. Bespoke design of table elements turns utility into designed seduction.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Ivana Wingham, 2021.
Image Credits: Image No 1: Designer/Architect, Ivana Wingham; Photographer, Marko Poplasen; Manufacturer, Milan Zivkovic;
Airy Front And Right Side View, 2021.
Image No 2: Designer/Architect, Ivana Wingham; Photographer, Marko Poplasen; Manufacturer, Milan Zivkovic;
Airy Left And Front Side View, 2021.
Image No 3: Designer/Architect, Ivana Wingham; Photographer, Marko Poplasen; Manufacturer, Milan Zivkovic;
Airy Process Of Assembling View Upside Down, 2021.
Image No 4: Designer/Architect, Ivana Wingham; Photographer, Marko Poplasen; Manufacturer, Milan Zivkovic;
Airy Back Left Side View, 2021.
Image No 5: Designer/Architect, Ivana Wingham; Photographer, Marko Poplasen; Manufacturer, Milan Zivkovic;
Airy Right Top Side View Detail, 2021.