Silver Furniture · 2020
Suite Stool Mutifunctional Stool
by Yulong Zhang
- Silver A' Design Award 2020 in Furniture
- CLIENT: Albert Zhang
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 23,759
- Verification code 80E1CB53AB · Verify this award
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About Suite Stool Mutifunctional Stool
Suite Stool is a set of three seats designed for small homes. The three parts nest together to form one compact unit and can be pulled apart for separate use. Any two parts can also be joined, so one, two or three people can sit. The seats are made of plywood, which gives strong support, and all three parts are cut from a single wood panel measuring 1.2 by 2.4 meters. The compact shape allows flat packaging and quick assembly. Each unit measures 500 by 400 by 450 millimeters.
About the Silver A' Design Award
Suite Stool Mutifunctional Stool is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Suite Stool Mutifunctional Stool is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Suite Stool Mutifunctional Stool is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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- Unique Properties
- Among the modern furniture stacked up to save space,most of them save space while wasting. To solve the issue of space and multifunction for consumers, Albert designed the three stools which can be used sepa-rately or as a whole,meanwhile, any two of the stools are able to combine to be used by one people or more. Based on manufacture and installation considerations, the stools have a compact shape for flat packaging and quick assembly.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 500mm*400mm*450mm
- Tags
- Chair, Stool, Multifunctional, Furniture
- Production Technology
- The material is plywood, which provide very strong support for the stool.
And the three stool is made of a 1.2 meter in width and 2.4 meter in length wood block. - Design Challenge
- It is so hard for designers to design a way to combine three chairs as one. The most common chair in the market in not suitable to fold. And he find the structure he used is a smart way to combine chairs, however, it may not as comfortable as users think it is. Therefore, Albert measured the distance of the small piece and do lots of experiment to find a balance between structure and user experience.
- Research
- Albert do a research among the famous chair and the new chair in the market. And Albert learn something from the old style chairs and he appreciate the chair that can be easily moved to another place as well as save space. As we know, in some area in China, the house is so experience for the young people. Therefore, Albert design Suite Stool to save place.
- Inspiration
- Nowadays, it esay to design huge things.However, Albert found that not everybody have space to place those huge products. And more and more people in China have to live in small room, who are pretty hard to have big furniture. What designers should design as a designer is to design things in a smart way while solving the main problem.Therefore, Albert design this new kind of stool to ensure that people have more place for other things.
- Project Duration
- The project started in November 2018 in Shanghai and finished in January 2019 in Shanghai, and was exhibited in 'Design Shanghai' in March 2019.
- Operation Flow
- The users can use this stool as a whole, or as three chairs. All users need to do is to pull out the stool and it can be separated to three parts. And they can combine any of the two stools to have a new stool, which make it available for one or two or three people to sit.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Albert Zhang, Suite Stool, 2019
Image #2: Photographer Albert Zhang, Suite Stool, 2019
Image #3: Photographer Albert Zhang, Suite Stool, 2019
Image #4: Photographer Albert Zhang, Suite Stool, 2019
Image #5: Photographer Albert Zhang, Suite Stool, 2019
