Silver Furniture Design · 2022
Wings Leisure Chair
- A' Design Award 2022 Silver Winner in Furniture Design
- Awarded April 15, 2022
- CLIENT: Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 33,578
- Verification code EB22A302E6 · Verify this award
About Wings Leisure Chair
Wings is a leisure chair inspired by the movement of butterflies. The form refers to butterfly wings in different states, giving a solid object a sense of life. The back is connected to the middle of the seat, and the seat surface opens on both sides to wrap the hips for greater comfort. The legs use a double layer support that increases stability. The chair is produced as one piece by 3D printing in blue translucent plastic. The outer surface carries a striped texture that recalls wing patterns and increases friction.
Wei Jingye's Wings Leisure Chair emerges from contemporary explorations at the intersection of advanced material technology and biomimetic design philosophy, representing a distinctive contribution to the evolving discourse surrounding sculptural furniture and the dissolution of boundaries between functional object and autonomous artwork. The piece demonstrates remarkable technical achievement in its manipulation of translucent fiber composite materials, which the designer has orchestrated to create a membrane-like surface that simultaneously reveals internal structure while maintaining sufficient opacity to define volumetric form. The compositional strategy draws upon natural precedents, specifically the elegant engineering of avian wing anatomy, translating biological efficiency and aesthetic grace into a seating form that invites both physical use and visual contemplation. The restrained monochromatic palette of graduated blues enhances the work's ethereal character, with chromatic intensity strategically concentrated at structural nodes while dissipating toward translucent peripheries. One observes particular accomplishment in the resolution of competing demands between sculptural ambition and ergonomic functionality, as the generous seat bowl and supportive backrest elements emerge organically from the wing-like projections without sacrificing the overall sense of airborne levity. The herringbone textile patterning visible through the translucent surfaces adds dimensional complexity while referencing traditional craft sensibilities within an otherwise technologically advanced construction methodology. The work may be understood as participating in ongoing conversations within furniture design concerning dematerialization, structural honesty, and the expressive potential of emerging composite technologies. Viewers might contemplate how this synthesis of natural inspiration and contemporary fabrication techniques proposes new possibilities for objects that occupy domestic space as both practical furnishings and sources of aesthetic enrichment, inviting meditation upon the relationship between human-made environments and the organic world beyond.
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- Unique Properties
- The "Wings" chair is a leisure chair design, made of plastic and integrated technology. The appearance of the product is inspired by the movement of butterflies, aiming to show signs of life from solid objects; The back of the chair is connected with the middle part of the seat surface. The seat surface on both sides is open to surround people's entire hips, making people sit up more comfortable. The design of the legs is double-decker support to increase the support and expressive force of the chair.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 655mm x 710mm x 785mm, The seat is 3D printed in one piece, and each structure is tightly connected, which made of blue translucent plastic material. The outer part of the chair has striated concave-convex texture to match the wing pattern of a butterfly, at the same time increase the friction force and quality performance of the seat, integrated design convenient transportation, at the same time modeling freedom is also higher.
- Tags
- The butterfly, Wings, Bionic modeling, Leisure, Vitality
- Production Technology
- The leisure chair is an integral structure, made of 3D printing integral forming technology, the whole is blue translucent plastic material, the outer shape has stripes and concave, in order to increase the friction of the seat.
- Design Challenge
- Seek the organic combination of solid seat mechanism and butterfly vitality, increase the sense of power of the product in modeling, with blue translucent plastic material to enhance the expressive force of the seat, so that users have a more comfortable and pleasant use experience.
- Project Duration
- The design had started in Shenyang in March 2021, completed in Shenyang in June 2021, and displayed in the museum of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang in June in 2021.
- Operation Flow
- Suitable for leisure and entertainment, sit with your feet down, no matter reading, drinking tea or relaxing, the part of the back of the seat with wrapped nature brings the user a sense of safety and comfort, at the same time, the vitality of the shape can also be used for interior decoration.
- Research
- This seat in butterfly wings form as a source for design, interconnected seat structure, chair leg open seat surface show a seat compact feeling, let chair itself is stronger, the legs of the design of supporting structure is more strengthened the bearing capacity of the chair, on the surface of the bridge to the inclusion of design improves the comfort, connection out chair at the same time, make the form more expressive and vitality, Let users have a better use experience.
- Inspiration
- As a creature as a prototype for the design of the "Wings" chair, has a unique bionic modelling, mainly in butterfly Wings as the prototype, the butterfly resting, long Wings, has formed the design of the chair, when butterflies to fly, Wings flap, open on both sides of the seat surface structure is created, design through the Wings under different status of different forms, Let people feel and experience the existence of life in objects.
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