Ida
Ida Chair by Jairo da Costa is a winner of the 2023 Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design.
Ida is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness.
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Ida embodies a unique design through an elegant and timeless aesthetic, focusing on simplicity, ergonomics, materials and modern craftsmanship. It showcases how prosumer products like Do-It-Yourself furniture can be intelligent, sophisticated, functional and, most importantly, sustainable. The chair can be customized and ordered online, ready to assemble or locally made by anyone using a web platform and digital fabrication technologies. The result is a versatile chair with a single sustainably sourced material and a few parts assembled in seven easy steps without nails, screws or glue.
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Ida by Jairo da Costa
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Furniture Design Award Winner in 2023.
Bronze Winner
Ida Chair
Ida is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Ida is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Ida splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Winner Designer
Jairo da Costa
Jairo is an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente and Adjunct Senior Lecturer and co-founder of the Bio-Based Materials Design Lab at the University of Western Australia. He is a proactive and passionate industrial designer and systems thinker with over ten years of experience in Design for Sustainability and Systemic Design. Jairo has a proven track record in publishing in high-impact journals, applying research in industry, managing multidisciplinary projects and winning international design awards. He taught over fifteen subject courses, ranging from undergraduate to graduate level, covering multiple fields of study such as Industrial Design Engineering, Systems Innovation and Graphic Design. He has worked in multidisciplinary environments, promoted multicultural dialogue, and engaged in teaching and research activities in Latin America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
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Dextop
Dextop products embody a unique design through an elegant and timeless aesthetic, focusing on simplicity, ergonomics, sustainability and modern craftsmanship. Every product showcases how Do-It-Yourself furniture can be intelligent, sophisticated and functional. They use certificated hardwood plywood or bamboo ply with natural oil finishing. Some options use HPL Laminated with natural oil finishing on the edges. You can customise our products to fit your style and make them by using the resources available on our online platform.
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