Platinum Furniture · 2023
Eureka Lounge Chair
- Platinum A' Design Award 2023 in Furniture
- CLIENT: Beijing Yeak Tech Co. Ltd.
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- Verification code 8CB0830171 · Verify this award
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About Eureka Lounge Chair
Eureka is a lounge chair designed for living rooms. The form of Eureka is based on the Enneper surface, a mathematical model that gives the chair a sense of order and flow. The elaborate supporting structure remains stable and provides ergonomic comfort. Curved edges add visual tension and invite the user to sit or lie down. The interior is made of moulded glass steel and is covered with wool fabric from the Kvadrat Sprinkles series. The fabric stretches in all directions and shows coloured dots that change with the viewing angle.
About the Platinum A' Design Award
Eureka Lounge Chair is a Platinum A' Design Award winner, an extremely prestigious recognition granted to truly exceptional, elegant, and magnificent designs. Platinum winners are marvels of creation, testaments to the limits of intellectual creativity, and demonstrate the unmatched professionalism and genius of their designers. These designs are expected to be the most renowned works that define the aesthetics of an era, contribute to the well-being of society, and push the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Eureka Lounge Chair exhibits a transcendent level of excellence and unequivocally makes the world a better place with its advantageous and worthwhile characteristics. Eureka Lounge Chair is a Platinum A' Design Award-winning work that triggers desires, inspires, excites, delights, and sparks great joy.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The shape of this Eureka Chair, a living room lounge chair, is based on mathematic model of Enneper surface with a sense of order and flow into the leisure space. The elaborate supporting structure provides users with ergonomic comfort while keeping stable. Another unique design of the chair is the fabric, made of wools from Kvadrat Sprinkles series with excellent stretch and durability, making it ideal material for chairs.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- product dimensions, 980mm*1040mm*1000mm
- Tags
- Lounge chair, single chair, space design, mathematic model, Ennepersurface
- Production Technology
- The interior is made of glass steel with mould, covering with fabric made of wools from Kvadrat Sprinkles series. The kaleidoscopic colored dots make the fabric look different in different viewing angle. This special fabric can be stretched from all directions, making it the ideal material for curved deck chair.
- Design Challenge
- The challenge in the design process was to find a technical solution that integrates the highest level of aesthetic, comfort and sustainability. As a result, the Enneper was the final choice aiming to harmonize the overall sense of flow and order through the curved structure conforming to the mathematical model, and to ensure ergonomics and comfort with its unique design.
- Research
- Form comes first followed by function and ergonomics in the design process. The designers settled on Enneper surface after studying mathematical models in the nature, presented in pure geometric shapes. With the observation of nature, the shape is endowed with various functions, including backrest, chair legs and so on.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the smallest Enneper in the nature, Eureka Lounge Chair is stable with a sense of flow, a high light in modern interior design. The unique colorful dots changes in visual with the viewing angle echoing the flow effect of the curved chair with impressive aesthetic.
- Project Duration
- The project was designed and developed in Beijing in January 2021 and launched in China in November 2022.
- Operation Flow
- Interaction with the user is generated from the appeal of mathematical order through organic form. Arcs at the edges add some tension to the product, inviting the user to sit or lie down comfortably. Shapes with a sense of order and warm colors allow users to perceive the comfort of furniture before using it, triggering users to actual use to prove this feeling.
