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Miguel Arruda Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Golf Folding Chair in Furniture Design
Miguel Arruda honored for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category for Golf Folding Chair by Miguel Arruda, designed for Arruda Arquitectos Associados, Lda. The recognition forms part of the 2023 - 2024 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 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.
More About Golf Folding Chair
Golf is a folding bench and chair made entirely of wood. The design combines rectangular and cylindrical section elements, and the cylindrical parts are shaped for an ergonomic relationship with the human body. All hinges and fittings are also made of wood, which gives the pieces a more artisanal character. Fixing is achieved with Sucupira wood dowels, selected for their resistance, so no metal parts are needed. Once folded, the bench and the chair form compact volumes that can be carried by hand and stored in a small space.
About Miguel Arruda
Miguel Arruda, develops his work in the areas of Sculpture, Design and Architecture. In 1968 he completed his studies in sculpture at the University of Fine Arts of Lisbon and in 1989 received a degree in architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of Technical University of Lisbon. Starts working as a university professor in 1969, having obtained the title of Full Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon in 2003. Here he is coordinator of the Course of Equipment Design (1998-2006) and president of its Board of Directors (2004-2008).
Award Record
With this recognition, Miguel Arruda is a winner of 7 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2016 - 2017 to 2023 - 2024 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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/158035
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/158035
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!158035
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/168236
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://miguelarruda.com/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Golf Folding Chair
- Function
- Folding Chair
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Black, Gainsboro, Linen and Wheat
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Arruda Arquitectos Associados, Lda
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Miguel Arruda
- Country
- Portugal
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #158035
Credits
- Image Credits
- Pedro Sadio; Miguel Arruda
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This design, try to achieve a relationship between the rectangular and the cylindrical elements, the latter having a special ergonomic relationship with the human body. The folding bench and chair are made of natural wood, which guarantees great mechanical resistance. All hinge and fittings systems are made with the same wood, giving the piece a more artisanal character. The pieces are foldable, allowing it to be stored in a smaller space.
- Inspiration
- The traditional image of a bench resulting from the use of a segment of a tree trunk served as inspiration for the option of using rectangular and cylindrical section elements to compose this Design through wich, is intended to reach a relationship between its shapes and the human ergonomy. All hinge and fittings systems and elements are made with the same wood, giving the piece a more artisanal character.
- Research
- It was necessary to find a type of wood able to connect the different peices of the design, granting it stability and rigidity once in the open position, paramount for its confortability, together with the challenge of designing mechanisms between the different parts of the design, assuring their longevity.It is used exclusively wood, even for all articulating and fixing elements. connections are achieved using Sucupira wood dowels for its resistance with a diameter of 10mm.
- Challenge
- It was necessary to find a type of wood able to connect the different peices of the design, granting it stability and rigidity once in the open position, assuring stability to the shape, paramount for the comfort in the sitting down position , together with the challenge of designing the interconnection mechanisms between the different parts of the design, assuring their longevity withou using metal parts
- Realization and Technology
- The Golf bench and the chair, which result from the introduction of a back element, have as their main characteristic, their constructive aspect and the fact that once dismantled they become reduced respectively to an easy-to-transport parallelepiped measuring 12x36x62cm (bench) and 12x36x76cm (chair). From a construction point of view, it is used exclusively wood, for all articulating and fixing elements of the rectangular section pieces (95x17cm) with the cylindrical parts with a diameter of 35cm. Fixing is achieved using Sucupira wood dowels (more resistant) with a diameter of 10mm.
- Operation and Interaction
- The mobility dimension, and the physical characteristics of this bench and chair allows easier manual transport while allowing it a multifunctionality of uses.It should be noted that the cylindrical elements allow for an easier manual transport of both the bench and the chair, and that the pieces are foldable, allowing it to be stored in a smaller space.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in February 2022 in Lisbon and Finished in August 2023 in Lisbon.
- Specifications
- Bench with the dimensions of 12x36x62cm while folded, with a heigh of 45cm when opened. Chair with the dimensions of 12x36x76cm while folded, with a heigh of 80cm when opened
- Keywords
- Bench, Wood, Chair, Seat, Folding
