Condessa Multifunctional Chair by Pedro Quintela |
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| DESIGN NAME: Condessa PRIMARY FUNCTION: Multifunctional Chair INSPIRATION: This design was inspired in a profound divagation of looking to the same scketches from different perspectives. By turning them around and around, through an instinctive creative process, slowly was found it particular organic shape with the hidden desires to create a unique multifunctional chair with various resting surfaces that can be found through a continue rotation of the object. UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Through careful rotation of its thoroughly curved shapes numerous options are revealed, as are various resting surfaces for it users or it accessories. This chair was designed, not only in the mathematical dimension, but above all, in the existential dimension. It aims to defy and engage us emotional, subconscious and intellectually. The studio believes that design based on sincerity, is what creates art. Devotedly responding to specific questions, not resorting to previous solutions. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: By simple rotations of the object by the user, due the asymmetry of it designs, we find different positions of the same object. Due these different positions, it can be found different ways to sit on it. It results in several chairs in one object only. An inhabited sculpture. PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The original drawings were done, among another few hundred chairs sketches, in the artist sketch book during a solitary travelling around the world before he started to practice as an Architect. Now, after 15 years of practice, life gave him the opportunity to start developing them. This particular design was developed in a caravan mobile studio in the South of Portugal. FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Furniture Design |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: In order to find a balance with the desired object strength and light weight, the proposal of the structure is to be done in a continuous light iron sheet of 1.5 mm, reinforced by a profile in which the object lay on the floor in any of its possible positions. The outside finishing is proposed to be in a cast spongy material lined in fabric and the inside curves in chrome to reflect it context and lights in a funny and alive way. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: The dimensions of this object it varies depending in witch of the different positions it is. They were studied as one but separately at the same time, depending on the different ways to sit on it. TAGS: An inhabited sculpture, one object, diferent positions, several ways to sit on it RESEARCH ABSTRACT: More than a research process, it was a process of concentration in canalising inspiration. The objective was to meditate in a particular organic shape and how could be transformed into a chair design. A hand made model was photographed, drawn on paper and improved meticulously until final lines were found. Them, a computer scale model was done and experimented with human dimensions on it in all possible dimensions. CHALLENGE: The creative challenge was to design a multifunctional chair out of a particular organic shape. The obstacle of the development was to find the balance of the piece as a whole. The historical perspective is based in todays minimization process of material goods therefore a concept of designing one chair with different positions to sit on it. For this, an accurate research about ergonomics and design history was done. This is about a provocative project that invites to rethink the design approach as a free gesture of creative consciousness. ADDED DATE: 2017-01-02 16:40:47 TEAM MEMBERS (1) : IMAGE CREDITS: Image 1: Illustrators Leonor Gonçalves and Tania Frajuca, Pedro Quintela Studio, 2016 Image 2: Illustrator Pedro Quintela, Pedro Quintela Studio, 2015 Image 3: Illustrators Leonor Gonçalves and Tania Frajuca, Pedro Quintela Studio, 2016 Image 4: Illustrators Leonor Gonçalves and Tania Frajuca, Pedro Quintela Studio, 2016 Image 5: Illustrators Leonor Gonçalves and Tania Frajuca, Pedro Quintela Studio, 2016 Video Credits: Tania Frajuca, 2016 |
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NAME: Pedro Quintela PROFILE: The Pedro Quintela Studio it’s a platform to develop and share the work of its founder, Pedro Quintela. Architect with an assumed artistic soul, admirer of the miracle of life, time and ephemeral; witness its creativity through alchemy and harmony. Through its Holistic concept, it Design main focus its about working disorganized energies, using, assimilating and organizing them to form a specific structure with identity, creating beauty, truth and value. The Studio is a firm believer in the art that develops as a process of evolution, as with nature, connected in three phases: adaptation (immediate responses of the object and place); transformation (reflection) and crystallization (creation). Just going through this process, consider a work to be authentic and respectful to the The Spirit of the Place. |
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Condessa Multifunctional Chair by Pedro Quintela is Runner-up for A' Design Award in Furniture Design Category, 2016 - 2017.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with Pedro Quintela. · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by Pedro Quintela. |
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