Opus Zene Sella Cenatoria a designatore John G Williams est victor maxime honoratus praemii praestigiosissimi 2018 Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum in Categoria Certaminis Designatio Supellectilis.
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Zene Sella Cenatoria
Cliens: John G Williams
Victor praemii Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum in Categoria Supellex
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De Zene Sella Cenatoria
Sella cenatoria Zene inspirationem suam a ligno indigeno et consilio Danico Moderno sumit. Compages levis ex fraxino simplices et robustae sunt et sedilia dorsaque ex ligno duro sustinent, quae in compage natare videntur. Formae curvatae sedilis dorsique non ligno flectendo efficiuntur, sed potius ligno duro solido coniungendo et fingendo. Ut series, compages levis ex fraxino cohaerentiam praebent, et diversa materia locali pro sedilibus dorsisque electa studium et momentum generat.
Agnitio
De Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum
Zene Sella Cenatoria victor est Praemii A' Design Award Ferreum, honoris amplissimi formis bonis dati, quae postulatis professionalibus et industrialibus ab creationibus bene formatis exspectatis satisfaciunt. Victores Ferrei magnam peritiam, altam specializationem, intellectum periti et facultatem creandi auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Zene Sella Cenatoria creationem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, practicam et novam fore. Haec forma Ferreo victa optimas industriae consuetudines integrat et proprietates technicas idoneas, cum scientia et talento coniunctas, habet. Zene Sella Cenatoria ob diligentiam suam honoratur et ad vitae qualitatem emendandam formatum est, ut mundum meliorem reddere iuvet.
Post Designum
Fasciculus Nuntii
Merita, sodales gregis et singula technica a designatore praebita.
- Proprietates Singulares
- 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. - Dimensiones et Involucrum
- 515mm wide x 570mm deep x 890mm high
seat: 515mm wide x 390mm deep
back:515mm wide x 200mm high - Notulae
- zene, dining chair, south africa, hardwood, curved, cooper, danish modern, minimalist
- Technologia Productionis
- 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.
- Provocatio Designandi
- 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 - Investigatio
- 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. - Inspiratio
- 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.
- Duratio Operis
- 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
- Cursus Operationis
- Zene is designed mainly for use at the dining table and is designed for extended dining comfort.
- Patentes
- no patents pending
- Membra Turmae
- John G Williams: designer, craftsman
- Agnitiones Imaginum
- all images by the designer: John G Williams
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