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Children Papers Chair Drawing chair by Charlotte Friis Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design
The international grand jury of the 2017 - 2018 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Charlotte Friis for baby, kids' and children's products design
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COMO, Italy, April 14, 2018 /DesignNewswire/ Children Papers Chair Drawing chair by Charlotte Friis, designed for Charlotte Friis Design Studio, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2017 - 2018 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About Children Papers Chair Drawing chair
The Children Papers Chair rethinks the experience of drawing. It tells a story about the extensive use of paper. The child takes a seat on the paper roll and begins to draw. As the drawing extends in can be rolled on the back cylinder that will store all the drawings. The back support is executed in solid wood with a white lacquer. The paper rolls are held in place by a metal resort system that makes the paper rolling movement possible. It can be used by kids between the ages of three to eight. It can store drawings on 400 meters of paper.
About Charlotte Friis
Charlotte Friis is a Design Inventor & Conceptualist and founder of Charlotte Friis Design, working across furniture, lighting and spatial communication design. Her practice develops adaptive design systems combining strong aesthetic identity, function, innovation, storytelling, materials and user participation. Central to the work is multi-aesthetic design: enabling one recognisable design to support multiple aesthetic expressions in response to person, place, context and time while retaining a coherent identity. The practice also explores circularity, cultural adaptability and renewal.
Award Record
With this recognition, Charlotte Friis is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Baby, Kids and Children's Products Design Award
The A' Baby Products Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good baby product designs by leading brands and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to baby product designers, industrial designers, toy companies and children's product manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include strollers, car seats, baby monitors, high chairs, baby bottles and pacifiers. The awarded baby products designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/baby-products
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/58999
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/58999
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!58999
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/204529
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.charlottefriis.com/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Children Papers Chair Drawing chair
- Function
- Drawing chair
- Category
- Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Kids
- Colors
- Silver, Gainsboro, Dark Gray, Medium Orchid and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Charlotte Friis Design Studio
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Charlotte Friis
- Country
- Denmark
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2017 - 2018
- Design ID
- #58999
Credits
- Image Credits
- Charlotte Friis
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The Children Papers Chair rethinks the experience of drawing. It becomes much more than a functional and decorative chair in the playroom, it becomes a memory collection device. It can be used by kids between the ages of three to eight. It can store their drawings on 400 meters of paper for a period of approximately five years. The kids can use the chair standing facing the back support using it as a drawing board or the other way around, just drawing on the paper roll. The chair becomes a fun and interactive space in it's self.
- Inspiration
- The Children Papers Chair was originally part of Storytelling Furniture, which documents subjects of daily life. The inspiration steams from a toilet roll, and the chair tells a story about our extensive use of paper.
- Research
- The design gains depth from interacting with children and the parents desire to collect all the memories. On a daily basis the child draws a lot and that leaves an impressive amount of drawings that probably will be thrown out. The chair is a response to that sad end.
- Challenge
- The research challenge was finding a way to store the drawings that kids make in their childhood without losing them. The creative design challenge was to designate the movement of the paper roll.
- Realization and Technology
- The back support is executed in solid wood with a white lacquer. The paper rolls are held in place by a metal resort system that makes the paper rolling movement possible. The metal arms that hold the rolls have the length of 380 mm. The first roll holds the dimension of 370 mm and the second depending on how much it was been drawn on.
- Operation and Interaction
- The child takes a seat on the paper roll and begins to draw. As the drawing extends in can be rolled on the back cylinder that will store all the drawings.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was developed in Copenhagen and is currently exhibited within The Nordic Embassies in Berlin and after at the Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood, London 2018.
- Specifications
- Paper roll size diam. 370 mm Back support 650*380*15 mm
- Keywords
- Children, Kids, Paper, Roll, Chair, Memories, Drawings
