GanDan 長凳 by ChenYu, ShinChi, BoCheng and JieYi

GanDan 長凳 by ChenYu, ShinChi, BoCheng and JieYi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 銅獎 in 傢俱設計 Competition Category.

銅傢俱· 2021

GanDan 長凳

by ChenYu, ShinChi, BoCheng and JieYi

Client: Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Deparment

A' Design Award 銅獎 Winner in 傢俱 Category

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The Design

About GanDan 長凳

這是一款以蠶紡繭自然為靈感的手工長凳，參照日本青森縣的傳統工藝，將金色柚木單板通過連續纏繞層層纏繞成型，呈現出絲絲的美感。飾面漸變，形成完美的流線型長凳。看起來像木板凳一樣硬，但坐起來卻是柔軟的感覺。製作時沒有任何廢料或廢料，相對環保。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銅獎

GanDan 長凳是 A' Design Award 銅獎得主，這是授予以創造力、獨創性和敏銳見長的傑出設計的極具聲望的認可。銅獎得主是技藝嫻熟、創意驚人的作品，印證了其設計師豐富的經驗、想像力與機智。預計GanDan 長凳將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的物品，兼具顯著的專業性與創新性。這件贏得 A' Design Award 銅獎的設計融入藝術、科學、設計和技術領域的最佳實踐，並因注重細節而出類拔萃。GanDan 長凳出色地滿足需求，觸動渴望，迷住情感，並吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Most of the wooden furniture is mainly made of solid wood, which can only show a soft feeling in the modeling lines, but the entity is hard, and will produce a lot of waste during the production process. GanDan is a handcrafted bench, using veneer as the main expression, inspired by silkworm spinning and cocooning and by enlacing method to windup the shape of a bench, it produces a gradual beauty through continuous winding. It looks hard like the wooden bench but soft elasticity feel when sitting on. Without any waste or scrap when it was made which is relatively environmentally friendly.
Dimensions & Packaging: Material: Golden Teak Veneer
Size: Length900mm x Width300mm x Height450mm
Tags: Bench, HandCraft, Golden Teak, Veneer, Enlace, Bunaco, Cocooning
Production Technology: Material: golden teak wood veneer, wood, foam.
Production technology: CNC milling, lathe, foam Wire cutting
Handcraft Technique: Bunaco wrapping and enlacing veneer ribbon, manual polish.
Design Challenge: BUNACO's traditional craftsmanship mainly uses beech wood as the main material, and we have also tried to use sharba wood (that is, plane wood), which is thicker, easy to break, and entangled very hard. The change of shape, how to wind the veneer symmetrically and regularly bothered us. We found the golden teak veneer by chance and found that the gloss and softness of it were the most appropriate.
Research: Taiwan’s woodworking craftsmanship has a long history. In recent years, with the advancement of the technology industry, most of the demand for wooden furniture on the market has been produced in large quantities by industrial machine processing methods. Handmade furniture is gradually being replaced, and the value of hand-made woodworking crafts has gradually been lost. The masses ignore. Taking BUNACO as the research theme, I hope that wooden furniture can be presented in the most gentle way, and find this traditional craft technique originated from Aomori Prefecture, Japan.
Inspiration: Inspired by the silkworm spinning and cocooning, with reference to the traditional craftsmanship of Aomori Prefecture, Japan, take shape by enlacing the golden teak wood veneer. Continuous wrapped in circles and layers, showing the beauty of veneer gradation.
Project Duration: The project started in August 2020 in Taiwan , completed in February 2021, first debut in March and will exhibit in Young Designers’ Exhibition in World Trade Center, May 2021.
Operation Flow: Taking shape of the bench by wrapping and enlacing wood veneer in Bunaco style, with foam inside the cocoon sphere, it looks hard like the wooden bench but soft elasticity when sitting. Since the production procedure is wrapping and enlacing with wood veneer, no waste or scrap of wood produced.
Team Members: Instructor:ChungSheng Chen
Designer:ChenYu Shih
Designer:ShinChi Yang
Designer:BoCheng Guo
Designer:JieYi Chen
Tainan University of Technology/Product Design Dept.
Image Credits: Photo Credit:
ChenYu Shih
ShinChi Yang
BoCheng Guo
JieYi Chen