Zig
Zig Stool by Jules S. Jaffe is a winner of the 2020 Iron A' Design Award in Furniture Design.
Zig is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations.
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The design is inspired by the desire to showcase the unique properties of wood in the context of the technical challenges that require both beauty and functionality. To Jules S. Jaffe, this is the challenge of furniture design. The stool employs a unique triple mitered joint that did not exist before. The challenge here was to provide stability and strength to accommodate a feeling of lightness and tension in the final design. The resultant stool has exemplary strength but also has a feeling of lightness and peacefulness that the geometry, dating back to the Pythagoreans from whom the designer takes inspiration.
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Zig by Jules S. Jaffe
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Furniture Design Award Winner in 2020.
Iron Winner
Zig Stool
Zig is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Zig is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Zig is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Winner Designer
Jules S. Jaffe
For the most part, I invent sensor systems to study the underwater environment. Given the climate changes that are happening, I feel it is important to document these changes in an esthetic way. My photographs find a nice home in showing the microscopic world (having won awards in microscopy) and takes us on a voyage to our own planet, but at a different scale.
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Jules S. Jaffe
I am a scientist but also furniture and artifacts designer. For many years I had a woodworking company that specialized in table top merchandise. However, now I design for speculation sales.
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