Iron Furniture · 2019

Chic Chair

by Vasil Velchev

A' Design Award 2019 in Furniture
CLIENT: MAGMA graphics
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About Chic Chair

This chair is meant to be the most fetching part of the interior, the focus of attention. And it's really have the characteristics to do that. Taking a quick glimpse it leaves an impression of a sculpture, a piece of art, like enlivened 3D painting of Wassily Kandinsky. And imagine that you can have it in your room like a piece of the environment. Far from the norms how a typical chair should look like it has a very specific and recognizable shape. The most unique feature of this chair is its unusual design. It represents geometric abstraction where art is in favor of the functionality.

About the A' Design Award

Chic Chair is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Chic Chair is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Chic Chair is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

Press Kit

Unique Properties: The most unique feature of this chair is its unusual design. Far from the norms and trends how a typical chair should look like it has a very specific and recognizable shape.
Dimensions & Packaging: Dimensions - Width 485 mm x Depth 785 mm x Height 950 mm
Tags: Chic, Chair, Magma, Graphics, Furniture, Design, Bulgaria
Production Technology: Body, seat and backrest can be either wooden or plastic. Legs - chromed pipes.
Design Challenge: Shape of the legs has been changed several times. Using analysis to identify the need of vertical supports.
Research: Following the aim of creating unique and recognizable chair i started to experiment with extremely unusual forms. Several shapes of body and legs have been produced and then evaluated and selected.
Inspiration: The unusual shape of this chair was inspired by the compositions of the famous painter Wassily Kandinsky. It represents geometric abstraction where the art is in favor of the functionality.
Project Duration: Engineering - 3 months, Prototype - in progress, Location - Bulgaria.
Operation Flow: Easy for manufacturing, easy for assembling.
Image Credits: Vasil Velchev