Bronze Furniture · 2024
Wowo Multipurpose Furniture
- Bronze A' Design Award 2024 in Furniture
- CLIENT: Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 15,430
- Verification code C5F69863B3 · Verify this award
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About Wowo Multipurpose Furniture
WOWO is a group of multipurpose seating furniture for homes with people and pets. The rounded form comes from the mouth shape made when children say the word wowo. High saturation colors and a hollow structure give the seats a playful and flexible character. The supporting parts are made of solid wood in its natural color, cut by machine and finished by hand grinding. The main body uses 3D printing and a magnetic assembly structure, which eases transport. The seats suit reading, tea drinking and rest.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Wowo Multipurpose Furniture 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. Wowo Multipurpose Furniture 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. Wowo Multipurpose Furniture splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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- Unique Properties
- This group of furniture comes from the mouth shape when children say wowo. By refining the high saturation color and mellow shape, combined with a special hollow structure，it evolved into a colorful, playful and flexible seat form. The support part of this group of furniture is made of solid wood, and the main part uses 3D-printing technology and magnetic assembly structure.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 800 mm x 750 mm x 950 mm, 640 mm x 550 mm x 800 mm, The solid wood of the supporting structure is processed and formed by machine cutting and manual grinding. The main part uses 3D-printing technology and magnetic assembly structure. It is assembled and formed, convenient for transportation and high modeling freedom.
- Tags
- Color, Children, Multipurpose, Pet friendly, Leisure time
- Production Technology
- The supporting structure of the product is made of solid wood in primary color, which adopts modern numerical control technology and is formed by machine cutting and manual grinding. The main part uses 3D-printing technology and magnetic assembly structure.
- Design Challenge
- Seeking a balance between humans and pets in furniture usage, increase the sense of strength of products when looking for round and lovely shapes, and control the use of colors when matching beautiful colors, so as to make them warm, lovely and not messy.
- Research
- This research starts from the multi-function of furniture. Seeking a balance between humans and pets in furniture usage. Suitable for families with pets, especially those with cats, to create a lively and warm family atmosphere.
- Inspiration
- The design takes product semantics of elliptic as the inspiration source. By refining the high saturation color and mellow shape, it evolved into a colorful, playful and flexible seat form. This group of furniture is round and childlike innocence, which achieves good interaction between people and pets, and the bright color makes the indoor environment quite pleasant.
- Project Duration
- The design had started in Shenyang in January 2023, completed in Shenyang in June 2023, and displayed in the museum of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang in June in 2023.
- Operation Flow
- It is suitable for leisure and entertainment. It can sit with feet hanging or knees bent. Whether it is reading, drinking tea or rest and play, this design bring users a sense of safety and comfort. At the same time, the round shape and beautiful colors can also be used for interior decoration.
