Guardians 傢俬套裝 by Kamran Afshar Naderi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 銀獎 in 傢俱設計 Competition Category.

銀傢俱· 2022

Guardians 傢俬套裝

by Kamran Afshar Naderi

Client: Villasufia

A' Design Award 銀獎 Winner in 傢俱 Category

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The Design

About Guardians 傢俬套裝

《守護者》係一套限量版傢俬套裝，包括一張椅同一張枱。設計靈感嚟自動物形態圖像，呢種圖像常見於史前藝術，以及地毯編織、陶藝等傳統工藝之中。張椅尺寸為70 x 75 x 90厘米，經過人體工學設計，坐得舒適。張枱尺寸為75 x 170 x 80厘米。每件傢俬都用先進嘅立體打印系統結合玻璃纖維技術製造，再經人手精細打磨。《守護者》旨在建立人與動物之間正面嘅情感聯繫。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銀獎

Guardians 傢俬套裝是 A' Design Award 銀獎得主，這是授予頂級、華美而令人印象深刻的設計的極為崇高的認可。銀獎得主是極其卓越、極具創造力的作品，展現出其設計師傑出的專業技能、才華與敏銳。預計Guardians 傢俬套裝將成為一件出色的典範之作，兼具非凡的專業性與深刻的創新性。這件贏得 A' Design Award 銀獎的設計是一項備受矚目、令人欽佩的發明，造福並拓展藝術、科學、設計和技術的界限。Guardians 傢俬套裝是一件令人羨慕的創作，它喚起渴望，帶來積極的情感，並激發驚嘆與讚嘆。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The Guardians is a limited-edition line of furniture. It makes a positive connection between humans and animals by its design. The chairs are designed to be ergonomic and comfortable in mind.
Dimensions & Packaging: The size of the chair is 70*75*90 cm. The size of the table is 75*170*80 cm.
Tags: Animals, Modern, Geometrical, Guardians, Furniture, zoomorphic, iconography
Production Technology: These objects belong to a set of furniture produced by a state-of-the-art 3d printing system combined with fiberglass technology and handcrafting for the final refinements.
Design Challenge: The main challenge was to meet the market demand for modern furniture in various forms of protective symbols, transforming the animal shapes to the pieces with the same emotion, joining performance and aesthetics beside emotional connection between the Guardians and the users.
Research: In designing Guardians, the designer studied the anatomy of the animals for creating objects that evoke energy and agility.
Inspiration: For millenniums, animals have been an inseparable part of human life. Zoomorphic motives dominated prehistoric art and have survived up until our era. Traditional crafts, such as carpet weaving and pottery, draw inspiration from the zoomorphic iconography. Positive human-animal relationships can provoke positive emotions, in fact, animals have been a source of inspiration for many modern artists and designers.
Project Duration: The project has been designed and presented in the Patternitecture exhibition in Tehran in August 2021.
Operation Flow: This project is designed to encourage the sense of thinking, reasoning, and not simply disregarding the events and the world around.
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer, Farzad Bagherzadeh, Photography, 2021
Image #2: Photographer, Farzad Bagherzadeh, Photography, 2021
Image #3: Photographer, Farzad Bagherzadeh, Photography, 2021
Image #4: Photographer, Farzad Bagherzadeh, Photography, 2021
Image #5: Photographer, Farzad Bagherzadeh, Photography, 2021