Flip Cadeira Transformável por Niko Kapa

O design Flip Cadeira Transformável por Niko Kapa é um vencedor altamente estimado do prestigioso 2025 A' Design Award de Ferro na Categoria de Competição Design de Mobiliário.

FerroMobiliário· 2025

Flip Cadeira Transformável

por Niko Kapa

Cliente: Snk

Vencedor do A' Design Award de Ferro na Categoria Mobiliário

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O Design

Sobre Flip Cadeira Transformável

Tendo como princípio a contenção material e a pureza da forma, a qualidade do design baseia-se em dobras e linhas geométricas que resultam numa interconexão de diferentes partes que servem a função. O design permite que a cadeira migre entre diferentes ambientes e responda aos estados de espírito e necessidades do usuário, uma vez que pode ser transformada simplesmente virando-a. Nada existe sem propósito e os elementos separados colaboram para criar uma estrutura leve mas extremamente rígida.

O Reconhecimento

Sobre o A' Design Award de Ferro

Flip Cadeira Transformável conquistou o A' Design Award de Ferro, um reconhecimento prestigiado atribuído a bons designs que cumprem os requisitos profissionais e industriais esperados de criações bem concebidas. Os vencedores do Ferro demonstram grande habilidade, elevada especialização, compreensão especializada e capacidade criativa dos seus criadores. Espera-se que Flip Cadeira Transformável seja uma criação muito considerada, admirada e estimada, prática e inovadora. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Ferro integra as melhores práticas do setor e tem características técnicas competentes associadas a conhecimento especializado e talento. Pela sua minúcia, Flip Cadeira Transformável merece respeito e destina-se a proporcionar melhorias na qualidade de vida que ajudam a tornar o mundo num lugar melhor.

Por Trás do Design

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Créditos, membros da equipa e detalhes técnicos fornecidos pelo designer.

Propriedades Únicas: Flexibility and transformation are the fundamental ideas behind this design. The design allows the chair to migrate between different settings and respond to moods and needs of the user, since it can be transformed just by flipping it. This results to different seating postures and designs as per the needs of the user. Besides the alteration, this gives the product a visual consolidation, emphasizing the reduction of materials and unification of forms.
Dimensões e Embalagem: Structural stability is attained by the overlapping plywood strips that curve into one another and are glued on connection points. These provide the necessary flexibility that thin layers of plywood offer as a construction material, together with the cushions attached to them. Plywood sheets are spray painted and varnished on all sides. Besides the natural beech wood finish, they come in black and white colored types.
Etiquetas: Transformable, flexible, fluid, plywood, sustainable
Tecnologia de Produção: The manufacturing process used for the plywood is steam bending which is a low energy, low waste process using no toxic glues, just water. The process of steaming the wood also seasons it at the same as it is bent, using a fraction of the energy required in conventional kiln drying. Having in mind always the use of low environmental impact solutions, plywood is used with low VOC finishes and Bio Shield natural oil finishes, in order to reveal the textural qualities of wood construction.
Desafio de Design: With the fluidity of seat and the linearity if strips, the design is suggestive of plant growth. In this way it expresses the spirit of the material it is made of and reveals the textural qualities of wood construction. With an intentionally clear and simple form for this furniture, adaptation to the product philosophy of Dorma Design was taken into account, in order to make this chair complementary of company’s group of furniture and suitable for mass production.
Pesquisa: The research focused on how the curve segments can be combined together taking into account physically satisfying posture as well as ergonomics. Full scale mockups were produced in order to check the weight and functionality of the furniture prior to fabrication. Cushions were tested in order to act as an extension of the main framing, having as a basic principle the minimum use of material and minimum number of construction elements.
Inspiração: When you bend a strip of plywood you get an elastic curve. What geometry does this curve follow? The interest in line and movement is expressed through a refined vocabulary, derived from the functional aspects of the design. The main structural elements are strips of plywood that fold in a specific and supplementary manner, in line with proportions of the human body so as to establish the dimensions of the chair.
Fluxo de Operação: Exploring the value of wooden manufacture and the flexible nature of wood as a construction material, the Flip Flop chair is constructed of a series of plywood elements. Fluid linear forms establish a visual rhythm through the graphic lines of the design. This analytical construction logic with curves and crisp lines defines a characteristic profile with a light and elegant effect.
Créditos de Imagem: Studio Niko Kapa