Brise Table Furniture Plus Fan by Wonho Lee is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Silver A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
SilverFurniture· 2020
Brise Table Furniture Plus Fan
by Wonho Lee
Client: Wonho Lee
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About Brise Table Furniture Plus Fan
Brise Table is designed with a sense of responsibility for climate change and a desire to use fans rather than air conditioners. Rather than blowing strong winds, it concentrates on feeling cool by circulating the air even after turning down the air conditioner. With Brise Table, the users can get some breeze and use as a side table at the same time. Also, it permeates the environment well and makes space more beautiful.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Brise Table Furniture Plus Fan 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. Brise Table Furniture Plus Fan 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. Brise Table Furniture Plus Fan is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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Climate-Conscious Furniture Design Services
We blend engineering precision with sustainable design thinking to create innovative furniture that addresses modern urban living challenges. Our expertise combines electronic engineering with human-centered design, resulting in multifunctional pieces that save space while enhancing daily life. Winner of the Silver A' Design Award.
Discuss Your ProjectInterviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
When I saw the dusty fan standing in my room, I wanted to get rid of it. But I had to keep it for the summer, and inspired by it, I decided to design a new type of fan.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
Although it is a fan, I wanted it to look like furniture. Also, I'd like to emphasize that it exists even if it doesn't work and just stands.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I will start a new project with this series of design.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Brise Table is a furniture plus fan that can always be used as a side table while still enjoying the breeze. Rather than creating strong winds, it is focused on feeling cool by circulating the air even after turning down the air conditioner.
Brise means breeze in French. The wind from the fan is not artificially strong. Strong winds can cause dizziness, even if they are cool for a while. A soft breeze circulates the air throughout the room, slowly lowering the temperature. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 536mm(W) x 536mm(D) x 550mm(H)
- Tags
- furniture, fan, sidetable, electricalfan, climatechange, climateemergency
- Production Technology
- Acrylic - spray painted,
Wood(Douglas fir) - CNC/lathe proceessed,
Aluminium - laser cutted,
Stainless steel - weldded - Design Challenge
- The top of the table shall be supported by the body and shall have a vents large enough to let the wind out. At first the vents were so small and densely designed that they were changed their size significantly and the material was also changed from acrylic to aluminum.
- Research
- As the number of single-person households in Korea's Millennials is increasing, my friends including me are also living in single-person households. I asked them why they did not use electrical fans for climate change. They chose a space as the main reason. They usally stay in a small space, so they do not want to put the fan in their room. Also some of my friend said that the fine dust is big issue in Seoul, but fans are unused except only for summer and they are coverd with dust at home. In view of these problems, I gained two insights. First, it should not waste space. Second, it should be used all seasons.
- Inspiration
- The use of electric fan in furniture began with a sense of responsibility for climate emergency and a desire to use fans rather than air conditioners for the coolness of the distant future. Existing fans are left unused after summer. Particularly in single-person households, it is not appropriate for the unused machinery to spoil the space.
- Project Duration
- The project started in September 20219 in Seoul and finished in December 2019 in Seoul, and was exhibited in Hongik University in January 2020.
- Operation Flow
- The control unit placed it at the bottom of the table so that it did not look like a machine, but the user can see it and recognize that it can be turned as a dial button. It can be operated in a total of three stages of power.
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