El disseny Sempoa Butaca de New Elegant Co., Ltd. és un guanyador molt estimat del prestigiós 2025 A' Design Award d'Argent en la Categoria de Competició de Disseny de Mobiliari.

ArgentMobiliari· 2025

Sempoa Butaca

de New Elegant Co., Ltd.

Client: New Elegant Co., Ltd.

Guanyador del A' Design Award d'Argent en la Categoria de Mobiliari

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El Disseny

Sobre Sempoa Butaca

La cadira Sempoa combina la inspiració tradicional amb la funcionalitat moderna. Inspirada en l'àbac japonès Soroban, presenta un respatller amb boles mòbils que ofereixen tant interacció tàctil com un subtil efecte de massatge. Les boles, muntades en barres d'acer inoxidable i subjectades per marcs de fusta corbada flexible, es mouen amb el cos de l'usuari. Elaborada amb taulers de fusta massissa entrellaçats, el disseny equilibra l'estètica estructurada amb la durabilitat, assegurant estabilitat, estil i convidant a la interacció de l'usuari.

El Reconeixement

Sobre el A' Design Award d'Argent

Sempoa Butaca és un guanyador del guardó A' Design Award d'Argent, un reconeixement extraordinàriament prestigiós concedit a dissenys d'alta gamma, esplèndids i impressionants. Els guanyadors d'Argent són obres tremendament brillants i summament creatives que il·lustren la perícia, el talent i la perspicàcia excepcionals dels seus dissenyadors. Es preveu que Sempoa Butaca sigui una obra meravellosa i de gran lluïment, remarcablement professional i profundament innovadora. Aquest disseny guanyador del guardó A' Design Award d'Argent és un invent molt notable i admirat que beneficia i fa avançar els límits de l'art, la ciència, el disseny i la tecnologia. Sempoa Butaca és una creació molt envejada que evoca desitjos, introdueix sentiments positius i desperta sorpresa i admiració.

Darrere del Disseny

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Crèdits, membres de l'equip i detalls tècnics proporcionats pel dissenyador.

Propietats Úniques: For a long period of time, Abacus has been an important part of life of businessman, employees, even students. This simple yet useful hand operated tool becomes a symbol of hardworking people. In modern days, where digital calculator has been embedded inside our most important tool-smartphone, an abacus is slowly being forgotten. An idea emerges repurposing an abacus in our daily life as a reminder of our hard works while still physically functional giving relaxation massage sensation for the user.
Dimensions i Embalatge: Width: 720 mm
Depth: 820 mm
Height: 800 mm
Seat Height: 440 mm
Seat Depth: 510 mm
Etiquetes: Chair, Life, Work, Massage, Abacus, Wood, Joinery
Tecnologia de Producció: The expectation to create the most favorite piece of furniture in our living room, build quality is the priority allowing the user to rely on it for decades. With that mindset, straight solid rubberwood is decided for its well-known balance between strength, lightweight and cost. The curved shapes are realized from a bentwood forming the backrest and seat frames that wraps around the user’s body. The large area of the seat allows the user to sit cross-legged, thus velvet fabric is chosen to give a gentle touch to the skin, maximizing comforts.
Repte de Disseny: From the beginning of research, blending an abacus in a piece of furniture, the inorganic shape of the abacus reduces the possibility of the chair shape exploration. As ergonomic is a crucial part in designing a chair, the shape cannot be too rigid but on the other hand it becomes irrelevant to the abacus if the chair is too organic. Second hurdle is finding the balance thickness of the bentwood rails of the abacus. It must be thin enough to flex, yet strong enough to support the user’s body while holding all the stainless-steel rods. The frame also required to have spaces for the rails to slide smoothly without affecting the overall rigidity.
Recerca: Creating a product that will be cherished by the user is the wish of all designers and producers. Providing a solution in the product that also connects to the user’s heart, the research focused on blending the historical elements of abacus as an aesthetic feature and a concrete function of the whole product. Thus, by reinventing abacus as a flexible backrest, not only it acts as a piece of art in the living room, but also provides a soothing massage effect for the user. It combines a cultural element with practical benefits, creating a chair that feels both familiar and innovative.
Inspiració: In this era, most of our daily activity is sitting. Either it is working, meeting, eating or even relaxing. Twelve hours on average sitting on the same spot happened to many people especially those who works from their home. Inspired by wooden massage lumbar support used by many taxi drivers in Vietnam, the idea is to implement wooden massage beads built into a lounge chair for people who works tirelessly and relax infinitely in front of screens all day long.
Durada del Projecte: The project was designed and developed in Ho Chi Minh from August 2023 until August 2024.
Flux d'Operació: Crafting Sempoa chair focused on touches between users’ body and the edges of the beads. Knowing the fact that responses to sharp edges are different for every person, the rails of the abacus are made of flexible thin bentwood to be able to adapt to the user’s rear body shape. The stainless-steel rods act as the bones of the bentwood rails giving strength to support the user’s weight. Not only that, the abacus horizontal direction combined with the stainless steel rods, permit the beads to slide and spin freely, allowing the user to move around unbound while sitting.
Membres de l'Equip: Director: Wei-Liang Chou
Designer: Aditya Cipta Sugandha
Crèdits de les Imatges: Aditya Cipta Sugandha, 2024.