Bronze Office Furniture · 2022
Side Conference Chair
- Bronze A' Design Award 2022 in Office Furniture
- CLIENT: Huy Furniture
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 28,590
- Verification code 6C7FE149D4 · Verify this award
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About Side Conference Chair
Side is a conference chair designed for seminars, training courses, meetings and waiting areas. The chair is stackable and can be connected in rows. A self-returning writing tablet is available as an option, turning Side into a small workstation. The body is a monocoque made of plastic, and the frame is made of aluminium and other metals. The elastic backrest, made of polypropylene, supports the waist, while the seat is softly upholstered for comfort. Side is offered in many colors, with or without armrests, and with fixed feet or casters.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Side Conference Chair is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Side Conference Chair is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Side Conference Chair splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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- Unique Properties
- Stackable, easy to connect, with or without a self-returning writing tablet, Side is an ideal chair for seminars, training courses and conferences, but even for meetings or waiting.
The design of the monocoque body, the elastic backrest, the soft upholstery of the seat guarantees extremely high comfort.
Side is available in many colors, with or without armrests, writing tablet, row connectors, and four legs with fixed feet or with casters. - Dimensions & Packaging
- without armrests: 560mm x 530mm x 525mm
with armrests: 560mm x 530mm x 525mm
with armrests and tablet: 560mm x 530mm x 525mm - Tags
- chair, conference chair, contract chair, multipurpose chair, connectable chair, stackable chair, writing tablet, meeting room, reading room, training room
- Production Technology
- Side is composed by a monocoque plastic body available in different colors and a mixed framework made of aluminium and other metals.
Ergonomic design with the elastic chair back made of new PP material, comfortably support the waist. Appropriate support can effectively relieve human body pressure.
Functional solutions like the easy aggregation system and the availability of a tablet fitted well into the design.
The decision of developing a monocoque body gave us the possibility of creating a big family of products: Side is available with a lot of different basis such as sled, four legs, five spokes with wheels and so on. - Design Challenge
- The challenge is always the same: being able to create a product that is beautiful to look at, with reasonable production costs to reach a fair final price to be competitive on the international markets.
- Research
- The request was to create a contract chair with metal supporting structure and seat-backrest in plastic material; its armrests have a strong support to support the side tablet (aluminum painted in various colors).
- Inspiration
- After about 30 years of commitment in the design activity, and many of these involved in the design for seating, this project is the result of a great knowledge of both functions and form.
- Project Duration
- The project startet in March 2020 in Ponsacco (PI) and finished in March 2021 in Ponsacco (PI) and presented in March 2021 at the 47th CIFF (China International Furniture Fair) in Guangzhou, China
- Operation Flow
- This is a “contract” chair, for use in public spaces, such as meeting rooms and waiting areas, in general it is transformed with a practical tablet, becoming a small workstation.