Kuan 扶手椅 by Fnji Ltd - Frank Chou is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 鐵獎 in 傢俱設計 Competition Category.

鐵傢俱· 2022

Kuan 扶手椅

by Fnji Ltd - Frank Chou

Client: FNJI x Frank Chou

A' Design Award 鐵獎 Winner in 傢俱 Category

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The Design

About Kuan 扶手椅

寬是一款專為當代生活空間而設計嘅扶手椅。結構簡潔而不失格調,將金屬與羊毛布藝巧妙結合。座椅嘅體量感、框架嘅線條,以及虛實之間嘅對比,盡顯東方哲學含蓄內斂嘅氣質。椅套採用進口羊毛面料製成,經過傳統工藝定型處理,令表面平滑細膩,兼具良好嘅耐磨同抗起毛球性能。內裡運用唔同密度嘅海綿層疊組合,帶嚟舒適嘅承托體驗。寬亦提供多種面料選擇,以配合不同空間需求。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鐵獎

Kuan 扶手椅是 A' Design Award 鐵獎得主，這是授予滿足人們對設計精良的創作所期待的專業與工業要求的優良設計的聲望認可。鐵獎得主展現出其創作者的高超技藝、高度專業化、專家級的理解力和創造能力。預計Kuan 扶手椅將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的創作，既實用又創新。這件贏得 A' Design Award 鐵獎的設計整合了行業最佳實踐，並擁有與專業知識和才華相結合的稱職技術特性。Kuan 扶手椅因其嚴謹而受到尊重，旨在提供有助於讓世界變得更美好的生活品質改善。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Kuan Chair represents a style of contemporary oriental manner. The structure of this chair is simple and unpretentious. With high quality metal and wool materials, Kuan Chair also reveals the bywords for elegance and wisdom. The different feelings experienced by the volume of its seat, the lines of its structure, and the contrast between substance and emptiness, almost shows the reserved thoughts in Oriental philosophy. It is available with different covering materials.
Dimensions & Packaging: 690 mm x 735 mm x 670 mm
Tags: timeless, contrast, oriental, experimental
Production Technology: Kuan Chair adopts Italian brand imported wool fabric, which is stabilized by traditional process to obtain specific surface effect, giving smooth and soft hand feeling, and can achieve excellent resistance to pilling and wear resistance.
Design Challenge: The challenge could be how to explore the possibility of future living through design, which requires a deep understanding of the living status of people and the culture background that different from the others. Also, as part of daily life, chair plays a close role with people, which correspond with their living habits and personality.
Research: Kuan Chair is a new experimental series design by Frank Chou for furniture brand Fnji. It is vested diversified color and outline, meanwhile added in plenty of software and metal element. It contains the modern oriental ideology, molding the pioneer concept of exploring the ability of Chinese future lifestyle.
Inspiration: Kuan Chair is one of the pieces Frank Chou designed for FNJI. It is more free and agility in design, aim at modern and young generation, fusing contemporary design language, simple but warm, elegant and timeless. It contains the modern oriental ideology, molding the pioneer concept of exploring the ability of Chinese future lifestyle.
Project Duration: Kuan Chair was designed and produced in 2018.
Operation Flow: Cloth cover to take tight package process, soft package body form three-dimensional distinct, cloth surface flat fit, using multiple layers of different density of sponge combination filling to achieve a comfortable sitting feeling.
Team Members: Designer: Frank Chou