Curved 椅子 by Beijing Forestry University

Curved 椅子 by Beijing Forestry University is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award 银奖 in 家具设计 Competition Category.

银家具· 2025

Curved 椅子

by Beijing Forestry University

Client: Beijing Forestry University

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 家具 Category

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The Design

About Curved 椅子

《曲》是一款以印度尼西亚天然藤材制作的椅子。设计将传统藤编工艺与现代美学相融合,流畅的曲线藤条勾勒出中国传统水墨画中的山峦与流水意象。造型经由选材、蒸煮、热弯、定型、打磨与上漆等工序纯手工塑造而成。扶手高度、椅腿的稳定性以及座面与靠背的弧度均依据人体工程学研究设计,可有效支撑腰背。椅子尺寸为630 × 850 × 900毫米,适用于室内与户外多种环境。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Curved 椅子是 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Curved 椅子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。Curved 椅子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: This aesthetically pleasing and practical curved chair is made of understated, pliable natural rattan. It subtly marries traditional rattan weaving craftsmanship with modern aesthetics to highlight the liveliness and grace of mountains and water through smooth curved rattan, conveying a peaceful attitude towards life and a profound philosophy of life. Moreover, the chair designed based on ergonomics improves comfort of use while ensuring visual appeal.
Dimensions & Packaging: 630mm*850mm*900mm
Tags: rattan weaving craftsmanship, modern design, natural material, high mountains and flowing water, an integration of traditional and modern elements
Production Technology: This chair adopts premium Indonesian rattan that is waterproof, durable, and pliable with a soft luster and unique textures, achieving a refined style and rich visual effects. The superb techniques are used in material selection, steaming, hot bending, shaping, polishing, painting and other multiple manual processes, which equip each finished product with delicate details, a comfortable touch, and good load bearing performance, bringing visual and tactile enjoyment for a better user experience.
Design Challenge: The challenge was how to integrate the natural material, traditional craftsmanship, and modern aesthetics. To address that, the design team, breaking away from stereotyped designs in rattan furniture, has created a new rattan chair form by using minimalistic, dynamic curves to mimic the soft and graceful brushstrokes in Chinese landscape paintings. The product, while pursuing visual appeal, takes into account comfort and stability, striking a balance between aesthetics and functionality.
Research: Rattan is pliable and expressive. Thus, rattan chairs can showcase natural flowing dynamism through the ingenious combination of rattan lines. This product marries traditional rattan weaving craftsmanship with modern design concepts, which utilizes the natural material to reproduce the ethereal mountains and water in Chinese ink paintings. As a result, it achieves a simple yet elegant aesthetic, able to harmonize with various indoor and outdoor environments.
Inspiration: The chair, inspired by high mountains and flowing water in traditional Chinese ink paintings, utilizes understated, pliable natural rattan to outline rolling mountains and flowing water through smooth curves, bringing to mind a lively, graceful, and magnificent scene of mountains and water intertwined. This not only creates a serene atmosphere for users to relax, but also embodies a perfect fusion of cultural inheritance and modern innovation.
Project Duration: The project started in Beijing in January 2024 and completed in June 2024.
Operation Flow: The rattan chair prioritizes user experience and makes optimization based on ergonomics. It features fluid lines and is meticulously polished to offer a delicate, smooth touch. The height of the armrests, the stability of the legs, and the curvatures of the seat and the backrest have all undergone numerous tests. In this way, the chair can perfectly fit the human body and provide excellent support for the waist and back, while also boasting high stability, ensuring a comfortable experience.
Team Members: GongWei