Zene Akursi n imekli sɣur John G Williams

Zene Akursi n imekli sɣur John G Williams d anerbaz yettwaqadren meqqren n 2018 Tarbaḥt A' Design Award n Uzzal deg Taggayt n Tnaflit n Afeṣṣel n Iferrasen.

UzzalIferrasen· 2018

Zene Akursi n imekli

sɣur John G Williams

Amsaɣ: John G Williams

Anerbaz n Tarbaḥt A' Design Award n Uzzal deg Taggayt n Iferrasen

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Afeṣṣel

Ɣef Zene Akursi n imekli

Akursi n imekli Zene yeṭṭef tamuɣli-ines seg wesɣar aɣelnaw d wufesyan amaynut n Danemark. Leqwaleb n uzumbi afessas d isehlanen d imayanen, ttallalen imukan n usɣar aẓṛuran d imesɣaren yettbanen amzun ttfeggiḍen ɣef leqaleb. Talɣa itwaɣulen n umeḍleɛ/uzagur ur d-tettuɣal ara s wesṛeḍ n usɣar maca s uzdi d uɣunfu n usɣar aẓṛuran iǧehden. Am tsekkilt, leqwaleb n uzumbi afessas ttaken-d tuqqna, akked d isufar igraɣlanen yemgaraden i wumi yettwafren i umukan/uzagur d wid i d-ittawin lfayda d wazal.

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Ɣef Tarbaḥt A' Design Award n Uzzal

Zene Akursi n imekli d amerbaḥ n Tarbaḥt A' Design Award n Uzzal, tagmat i yisnulfa yelhan i yemmalen ayen i d-ttrajun yimdanen seg yisnulfa yelhan. Imerbaḥen n Uzzal ttbanen d tmusni, tmahilt d tazmert n yimahilen-nsen. Zene Akursi n imekli ad yili d asnulfu yettwaɛezzen, yelhan, amaynut. Isnulfa-a ttwaɛezzen imi ɛawnen deg tudert, rran ddunit ugar n lxir.

Deffir n ufeṣṣel

Tagrurt n tɣamsa

Ismawen n terbaɛt, iferdisen itiknikanen akked telɣut i d-yefka umeṣṣufeɣ.

Taɣara Tasuft: This series of dining chairs have American ash frames and showcase different hardwood timbers for the seat/backrest combinations.

The chairs draw on the ancient art of 'coopering' or how oak barrels are made for fermentation purposes. The curved forms of the seat/backrest are not formed by bending but rather by joining and shaping solid hardwood timber.

The chair strives to be very strong and beautiful. In short: Zene -
elegant, comfortable and dependable.
Tigejdiwin & Akemmus: 515mm wide x 570mm deep x 890mm high
seat: 515mm wide x 390mm deep
back:515mm wide x 200mm high
Tibzimin: zene, dining chair, south africa, hardwood, curved, cooper, danish modern, minimalist
Tasnakta n Ufares: The Zene design evolved over a number of years. The starting point was probably a fascination with the art of coopering and how this has been applied to furniture design. Building the segmented seat and backrests took some practice to perfect, as did the development of custom modifications to standard workshop tools to shape and finish the smoothly shaped forms.
Asewḥel n Usnulfu: Building the coopered seat/backrests was challenging as it required careful attention to the compression forces on the material and how best to achieve high compression without causing the seats to 'implode'.
Shaping the rough seats into finely finished and smooth curves required considerable re-working of the custom tooling to achieve the desired results
Anadi: Danish modern designs were studied and absorbed to consider different ways of rendering the frame, and its relationship to the seat, and to think through the spatial relationship of the seat to the backrest.
Web search was used to think about typical dimensions for the seat but in the end prototyping proved most fun.
Aseḥbiber: The beauty grain and colour of indigenous African timber was a key aesthetic inspiration for this project. The more technical inspiration for the overall work, including the frame design came from iconic designers such as Hans J Wegner (for example the CH20 Elbow Chair). The coopering technique was inspired by Ontario furniture designer Adrian Ferrazzutti.
Tanzagt n Usenfar: The first prototype was conceived in Johannesburg in 2007. It was slowly refined as background task over 10 years, and the first set of 6 chairs was produced in 2017
Tanila n Umahil: Zene is designed mainly for use at the dining table and is designed for extended dining comfort.
Ibrivan: no patents pending
Igmamen n Terbaɛt: John G Williams: designer, craftsman
Imsuren n Tugniwin: all images by the designer: John G Williams