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Ori Accent Chair by Manish Maheshwari |
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FS: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
MM: The structure of a ruffled palm leaf is uniquely formed in nature. The broad circular leaf spanning up to 5ft in diameter originates from one thin branch. This plant leaf inspires the shape and form of the Ori chair. Origami technique became the yin yang fit for translating the ruffled palm leaf form into an ergonomically designed furniture piece. The chairs' colours are derived from the sunflower, making it a stark piece of art as well.
FS: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
MM: The research and conceptulisation for this design started during the lock down due to pandemic in 2020 and was finished in 3 months.
FS: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?
MM: No, the design is not being produced or used by another company. we are producing the chair ourselves. but we are open to sell or lease the production rights to interested company or a studio.
FS: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?
MM: Ori as the name suggest to the word Origami, the art to folding paper into 3d forms which is also the inspiration and method applied in designing this chair.
FS: What is the role of technology in this particular design?
MM: The precision cutting of slits required to hand fold the metal sheet easily and to achieve such forms the laser cutting technology is being used.
FS: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?
MM: The Ori chair challenged our 7 years of experience working with metal since combining metal with origami techniques in itself is a challenge. Working on relieving pressure at the ridges by bringing in the right slit dimension and connecting the bridge between two slits to avoid sheer in metal proved strenuous. Break-through was about getting it right for an individual to bend manually by hands. It became essential to hit the sweet spot for the number of folds to get perfect ergonomics which finally came through trials and errors.
FS: Thank you for providing us with this opportunity to interview you.
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