Silver Furniture · 2022
Guardians Furniture Set
- Silver A' Design Award 2022 in Furniture
- CLIENT: Villasufia
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 26,758
- Verification code C89CC0269F · Verify this award
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About Guardians Furniture Set
Guardians is a limited-edition furniture set that includes a chair and a table. The design is inspired by zoomorphic iconography, which appears in prehistoric art and in traditional crafts such as carpet weaving and pottery. The chair measures 70 by 75 by 90 cm and is shaped for ergonomic comfort. The table measures 75 by 170 by 80 cm. Each piece is produced with an advanced three-dimensional printing system combined with fiberglass technology, and is refined by hand. Guardians aims to build a positive emotional connection between people and animals.
About the Silver A' Design Award
Guardians Furniture Set 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. Guardians Furniture Set 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. Guardians Furniture Set is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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- Unique Properties
- The Guardians is a limited-edition line of furniture. It makes a positive connection between humans and animals by its design. The chairs are designed to be ergonomic and comfortable in mind.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The size of the chair is 70*75*90 cm. The size of the table is 75*170*80 cm.
- Tags
- Animals, Modern, Geometrical, Guardians, Furniture, zoomorphic, iconography
- Production Technology
- These objects belong to a set of furniture produced by a state-of-the-art 3d printing system combined with fiberglass technology and handcrafting for the final refinements.
- Design Challenge
- The main challenge was to meet the market demand for modern furniture in various forms of protective symbols, transforming the animal shapes to the pieces with the same emotion, joining performance and aesthetics beside emotional connection between the Guardians and the users.
- Research
- In designing Guardians, the designer studied the anatomy of the animals for creating objects that evoke energy and agility.
- Inspiration
- For millenniums, animals have been an inseparable part of human life. Zoomorphic motives dominated prehistoric art and have survived up until our era. Traditional crafts, such as carpet weaving and pottery, draw inspiration from the zoomorphic iconography. Positive human-animal relationships can provoke positive emotions, in fact, animals have been a source of inspiration for many modern artists and designers.
- Project Duration
- The project has been designed and presented in the Patternitecture exhibition in Tehran in August 2021.
- Operation Flow
- This project is designed to encourage the sense of thinking, reasoning, and not simply disregarding the events and the world around.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer, Farzad Bagherzadeh, Photography, 2021
Image #2: Photographer, Farzad Bagherzadeh, Photography, 2021
Image #3: Photographer, Farzad Bagherzadeh, Photography, 2021
Image #4: Photographer, Farzad Bagherzadeh, Photography, 2021
Image #5: Photographer, Farzad Bagherzadeh, Photography, 2021
