Silver Furniture Design · 2022
Organic Furniture Collection Conceptual Objects
- A' Design Award 2022 Silver Winner in Furniture Design
- Awarded April 15, 2022
- CLIENT: Palanzone Studio
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 32,144
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About Organic Furniture Collection Conceptual Objects
This personal collection of organic furniture arises from the exploration of sensual and dynamic forms and the attempt to bring those sculptural forms to functional furniture. These pieces of furniture have their own personality to give a distinctive touch in each living room or place where they are used, since they seem unique characters with whom users can feel identified.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- This chair is part of my personal "organic objects" series.
All this series of objects are related to each other by their curved and dynamic forms, based on the organic forms of nature. - Dimensions & Packaging
- The red chair is called "Sensual Chair" and its dimensions are 133 cm wide, 86 cm high and 84 cm deep.
Digital Technique - Tags
- art direction, furniture design, design, chair designer, chair design, object designer, interior design, cgi, 3d design
- Production Technology
- It is designed to be enhanced in fiberglass or upholstered in leather or linen.
- Design Challenge
- The challenge in this collection was to find a balance between form and function, that is, art and design.
- Project Duration
- This project has taken about 8 months and has been carried out in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Operation Flow
- the interaction with the user arises through the visual appeal that these organic and sculptural forms generate in the viewer.
These friendly shapes and warm colors make users perceive the comfort of the furniture before using it, and have the desire to corroborate that feeling by using it. - Research
- This series of furniture arises from the exploration of forms that generate sensuality and seduce the user.
First I have sketched the shapes in a scratch pad and then I have taken it to the 3d software. - Inspiration
- My inspiration is the organic sculptures and sculptures of female bodies by sculptors like Fernando Botero.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Design Ariel Palanzone , Organic Chair, 2021
- Patents
- "Copyrights belong to Ariel Palanzone, 2021."
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Design Interview about Organic Furniture Collection Conceptual Objects
The fundamental principle was to make a series of furniture with organic shapes, achieving a balance between functionality and aesthetics.
I wanted to achieve a line of furniture that has a personal and playful character.
Bring these conceptual designs to reality.
A few years.
It was a project carried out on my own, to venture into the world of furniture design.
I am in the process of materializing them.
My desire to explore different design territories.
Estudio Campana, Alex Proba, Karim Rashid and Gaetano Pesce among others.
My subjectivity as a designer.
The name of the design has to do with the fundamental characteristic of this furniture, its organic morphology.
Cinema 4d and Photoshop, but first it was a pencil and paper.
Its morphological sensuality.
It was solo, although some industrial design studios are helping me to make the prototypes.
My design is influenced by the forms of nature and the organic sculptures of Jean Arp.
The main challenge is to achieve correct ergonomics in the proportions of the furniture and that they all feel part of the same design system.
Just out of curiosity and to trust my creations.
I have learned a lot about industrial design, especially furniture.
You can see more of my work here https://www.instagram.com/ariel_palanzone/
Grand Interview about Organic Furniture Collection Conceptual Objects
Thank you very much for your comments. As you say, it is about finding a delicate balance between the expressiveness of the form and the functionality of the piece.To do this, one must perform an analysis of human proportions so that the forms meet certain ergonomic requirements so that a person feels comfortable there, without neglecting the expressiveness of the form, which is what gives the piece its own identity.
The shape first emerged from a paper sketch which I then took to the 3D software. Besides Botero's artistic influence, the moment of inspiration happened at home when I left the dentist and saw how my temporary tooth had broken in two. Looking at it, I began to rearrange the broken parts and I said to myself that this improvised design could be an original way to create a chair.
I hope that this recognition can open more doors for me to companies that want to materialize my creations that seek to eliminate barriers between art and design. In fact, this series has won the gold prize in an international design competition, whose jury was composed of famous designers.
I think that color plays a fundamental role in the emotional connection with people and that is why I try to enhance the sensuality of the shapes through color. I am also inspired by the color enhancement in Italian design from the 70s.
The production of this piece required constant feedback with the people in charge of production to jointly seek a balance between the initial idea and its materialization, where various technological and artisanal processes were combined.
I think that in this highly digitalized era, people will increasingly feel the need to be surrounded by objects and furniture that provide them with positive sensory experiences, both tactile and visual, and in which they will see aspects of their own personality reflected.
My training as a graphic designer and motion graphics definitely influences the way I approach my creations. I like to first see how the shape works flat before giving it volume in 3D. The idea of movement is always present to a greater or lesser extent in my designs, as is the sculptural aspect of the piece, that is, its visual path and the way in which the light enters it.
Being a personal project, I was not limited to satisfying a specific need of a particular client, so the development was based on my own creative process, playful and free, where I asked myself the question of what furniture would be like in which I myself would feel comfortable and pleasant when using it, since I think that design serves to improve the quality of life of people both at a functional and experiential level.
I am currently evaluating the possibility of partnering with some companies that are dedicated to the production of furniture as unique pieces at an international level to be part of their catalog of designers.
They should believe in themselves and do what they feel and let their imagination run wild, without being too concerned with following successful formulas that worked for other people, or letting themselves be limited by people who tell them what is possible to do and what is not. They should think that the role of a designer is fundamental to the construction of a better, more just and humane society.