Curved Chair by Beijing Forestry University |
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| DESIGN NAME: Curved PRIMARY FUNCTION: Chair INSPIRATION: The chair, inspired by high mountains and flowing water in traditional Chinese ink paintings, utilizes understated, pliable natural rattan to outline rolling mountains and flowing water through smooth curves, bringing to mind a lively, graceful, and magnificent scene of mountains and water intertwined. This not only creates a serene atmosphere for users to relax, but also embodies a perfect fusion of cultural inheritance and modern innovation. UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This aesthetically pleasing and practical curved chair is made of understated, pliable natural rattan. It subtly marries traditional rattan weaving craftsmanship with modern aesthetics to highlight the liveliness and grace of mountains and water through smooth curved rattan, conveying a peaceful attitude towards life and a profound philosophy of life. Moreover, the chair designed based on ergonomics improves comfort of use while ensuring visual appeal. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The rattan chair prioritizes user experience and makes optimization based on ergonomics. It features fluid lines and is meticulously polished to offer a delicate, smooth touch. The height of the armrests, the stability of the legs, and the curvatures of the seat and the backrest have all undergone numerous tests. In this way, the chair can perfectly fit the human body and provide excellent support for the waist and back, while also boasting high stability, ensuring a comfortable experience. PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in Beijing in January 2024 and completed in June 2024. FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Furniture Design |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: This chair adopts premium Indonesian rattan that is waterproof, durable, and pliable with a soft luster and unique textures, achieving a refined style and rich visual effects. The superb techniques are used in material selection, steaming, hot bending, shaping, polishing, painting and other multiple manual processes, which equip each finished product with delicate details, a comfortable touch, and good load bearing performance, bringing visual and tactile enjoyment for a better user experience. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: 630mm*850mm*900mm TAGS: rattan weaving craftsmanship, modern design, natural material, high mountains and flowing water, an integration of traditional and modern elements RESEARCH ABSTRACT: Rattan is pliable and expressive. Thus, rattan chairs can showcase natural flowing dynamism through the ingenious combination of rattan lines. This product marries traditional rattan weaving craftsmanship with modern design concepts, which utilizes the natural material to reproduce the ethereal mountains and water in Chinese ink paintings. As a result, it achieves a simple yet elegant aesthetic, able to harmonize with various indoor and outdoor environments. CHALLENGE: The challenge was how to integrate the natural material, traditional craftsmanship, and modern aesthetics. To address that, the design team, breaking away from stereotyped designs in rattan furniture, has created a new rattan chair form by using minimalistic, dynamic curves to mimic the soft and graceful brushstrokes in Chinese landscape paintings. The product, while pursuing visual appeal, takes into account comfort and stability, striking a balance between aesthetics and functionality. ADDED DATE: 2025-02-11 22:42:34 TEAM MEMBERS (1) : GongWei IMAGE CREDITS: Beijing Forestry University, 2024. |
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NAME: Beijing Forestry University PROFILE: BFU is a national key university directly under the administration of the Ministry of Education, jointly established by the Ministry of Education, National Forestry and Grassland Administration and the People’s Government of Beijing Municipality. It is the first batch of key universities of “Project 211”, the pilot university in the national program of “The Innovation Platform for Prioritized Academic Disciplines”, and the national “Double First-Class” university. |
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Curved Chair by Beijing Forestry University is Winner in Furniture Design Category, 2024 - 2025.· Read the interview with designer Beijing Forestry University for design Curved here.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with Beijing Forestry University. · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by Beijing Forestry University. |
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