Press Release
Kodama Bar Stool Seating by Marshall Wollum Is Granted the Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design
Marshall Wollum honored for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Kodama Bar Stool Seating by Marshall Wollum, designed for Kodama Designs, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
Regarding Kodama Bar Stool Seating
Kodama Bar Stool is a wooden seat designed for use at counters and bars. The design follows a Japandi approach with a grounded and organic look. Contrasting walnut and applewood highlight the original wood joinery, which stays visible. Traditional woodworking knowledge is combined with a CNC router, allowing joinery of greater complexity and precision. The stool measures 45 cm in width, 54 cm in depth and 66 cm in height. The name Kodama means spirit of the tree, and the design pays tribute to wood as a renewable material.
About Marshall Wollum
Trying to manifest a future of furniture design that is sustainable and renewable and grateful of the materials (wood) and the conscious beings that gifted us the wood (The Trees). Documenting the creative journey by creating art in the form of videos on YouTube to possibly spark the remembrance of unity that lies within the viewers core. But these are just boilerplate words, in truth and in alignment with my purpose for being, I don't know where I'm headed and it doesn't matter because I'm just thankful to be on this path doing what I love.
Award Record
Marshall Wollum is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Furniture Design Award
The A' Furniture Design Award is an international furniture competition recognizing good furniture designs by best furniture designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to furniture designers, product designers, industrial design studios and furniture brands from all countries. Entries typically include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. Awarded furniture designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/furniture
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/106203
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/106203
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!106203
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/278975
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL20mDxaBO5LXkKKfE62Hyw
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Kodama Bar Stool Seating
- Function
- Seating
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Gray, Dark Gray, Dim Gray, Saddle Brown and Black
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Kodama Designs
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Marshall Wollum
- Country
- United States of America
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #106203
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- A subtle Japandi design with a grounded and organic aesthetic. The contrasting Walnut and Applewood highlight the stool's creative and original wood joinery. The Kodama Bar Stool is a blend of ancient techniques with modern technology to create a piece that will hopefully endure for generations, in both construction and design aesthetic.
- Inspiration
- The word Kodama translates to the "spirit of the tree". The intent behind the Kodama Bar Stool is to pay tribute to wood, one of our world's most renewable materials, and to honor the tree that granted us its life's work. The goal of this project was to combine the knowledge of traditional woodworking with a CNC router to accomplish joinery that was previously unobtainable in complexity and precision.
- Challenge
- This is a new field of manufacturing with little education opportunities available so I'm self-taught and continually making everything up as I go. I wake up every day feeling like the luckiest guy in the world to be on this creative adventure.
- Realization and Technology
- The challenge of this project was devising a method to program the powerful CNC router to delicately manifest the design through complex coding of the toolpaths and precision workholdings of the components on the machine. This innovative process has many more exciting years of refinement ahead as we are just beginning to open the door to a new era of parametric design and manufacturing that will allow human creativity to flourish with these new capabilities.
- Operation and Interaction
- Visible and honest wood joinery designed to hopefully endure through generations of daily use.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in 2016 in the mountains of Colorado and was finished in Southern California in March 2019.
- Specifications
- Width 45cm, Depth 54cm, Height 66cm
- Keywords
- Wood joinery, stool, furniture, autocad, fusion 360, cnc router, cnc machine
