O deseño Sempoa Butaca de New Elegant Co., Ltd. é un estimado gañador do moi prestixioso 2025 A' Design Award de Prata na Categoría de Competición Deseño de Mobiliario.

PrataMobiliario· 2025

Sempoa Butaca

de New Elegant Co., Ltd.

Cliente: New Elegant Co., Ltd.

Gañador do A' Design Award de Prata na Categoría Mobiliario

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O Deseño

Sobre Sempoa Butaca

A cadeira Sempoa combina inspiración tradicional con funcionalidade moderna. Inspirada no ábaco xaponés Soroban, presenta un respaldo con contas móbiles que ofrecen tanto interacción táctil coma un sutil efecto de masaxe. As contas, montadas en varillas de aceiro inoxidable e suxeitas por marcos de madeira curvada flexibles, móvense co corpo do usuario. Elaborada a partir de táboas de madeira maciza que se cruzan, o diseño equilibra a estética estruturada coa durabilidade, asegurando estabilidade, estilo e invitando á interacción do usuario.

O Recoñecemento

Sobre o A' Design Award de Prata

Sempoa Butaca gañou o A' Design Award de Prata, un recoñecemento enormemente prestixioso outorgado a deseños de gama alta, fermosos e impresionantes. Os gañadores Prata son obras tremendamente brillantes e sumamente creativas que ilustran a pericia, o talento e a agudeza sobresaíntes dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que Sempoa Butaca sexa unha obra marabillosa, escaparate de oficio, notablemente profesional e profundamente innovadora. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Prata é unha invención moi notable e admirada que beneficia e fai avanzar os límites da arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía. Sempoa Butaca é unha creación moi envexada que esperta desexos, achega sentimentos positivos e prende asombro e marabilla.

Detrás do deseño

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Créditos, membros do equipo e detalles técnicos proporcionados polo deseñador.

Propiedades Únicas: 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.
Dimensións e Embalaxe: Width: 720 mm
Depth: 820 mm
Height: 800 mm
Seat Height: 440 mm
Seat Depth: 510 mm
Etiquetas: Chair, Life, Work, Massage, Abacus, Wood, Joinery
Tecnoloxía de Produción: 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.
Reto de Deseño: 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.
Investigación: 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.
Inspiración: 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.
Duración do Proxecto: The project was designed and developed in Ho Chi Minh from August 2023 until August 2024.
Fluxo de Operacións: 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.
Membros do Equipo: Director: Wei-Liang Chou
Designer: Aditya Cipta Sugandha
Créditos das Imaxes: Aditya Cipta Sugandha, 2024.