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Zene Tūru Kai nā John G Williams

Ko te hoahoa Zene Tūru Kai nā John G Williams he kaitoa whakahirahira o te 2018 A' Design Award Rino i te Wāhanga Whakataetae Hoahoa Taputapu.


RinoTaputapu· 2018

Zene Tūru Kai

nā John G Williams

Kiritaki: John G Williams

Kaitoa o te A' Design Award Rino i te Wāhanga Taputapu

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Ngā Tae

Te Hoahoa

Mō Zene Tūru Kai

Ka whakawhiwhia te tūru kai Zene ki tōna whakaaweawe mai i te rākau taketake me te hoahoa Danish Modern. He māmā, he tū pakari ngā anga pāhau māmā, ā, ka tautoko i ngā nohoanga me ngā tuarā rākau pakari e āhua rewa ana i runga i te anga. Ko ngā āhua ānau o te nohoanga/tuarā kāore i hangaia mā te pikonga o te rākau, engari mā te whakahono me te whakaahua i te rākau pakari mārō. Hei raupapa, ka whakaratohia e ngā anga pāhau māmā te kotahitanga, ā, ko ngā rauemi ā-rohe rerekē i kōwhiritia mō ngā nohoanga/tuarā ka whakaputa i te ngākau nui me te hāngai.

Te Whakamihi

Mō te A' Design Award Rino

Ko Zene Tūru Kai te toa o te A' Design Award Rino, he whakaaetanga whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa pai e whakatutuki ana i ngā hiahia ngaio me te ahumahi e tūmanakohia ana mai i ngā mahi kua hoahoatia pai. Ko ngā toa Rino e whakaatu ana i te pukenga nui, te tohungatanga teitei, te māramatanga mātanga me te kaha auaha o ō rātou kaihanga. E tūmanakohia ana ko Zene Tūru Kai he mahi whakanuia, whakamīharotia, aroha nui, he whaihua, he auaha hoki. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Rino e whakakotahi ana i ngā tikanga pai rawa o te ahumahi, ā, he āhuatanga hangarau pūkenga tōna e hono ana ki te mōhio me te pūmanawa. E whakahonoretia ana a Zene Tūru Kai mō tōna tōtika, ā, i hoahoatia hei whakapai ake i te kounga o te oranga me te āwhina i te ao kia pai ake.

I Muri i te Hoahoa

Kete Pāpāho

Ngā whakamihi, ngā mema o te rōpū me ngā taipitopito hangarau i whakaratohia e te kaihoahoa.

Āhuatanga Motuhake
This series of dining chairs have American ash frames and showcase different hardwood timbers for the seat/backrest combinations.

The chairs draw on the ancient art of 'coopering' or how oak barrels are made for fermentation purposes. The curved forms of the seat/backrest are not formed by bending but rather by joining and shaping solid hardwood timber.

The chair strives to be very strong and beautiful. In short: Zene -
elegant, comfortable and dependable.
Inenga & Pēketanga
515mm wide x 570mm deep x 890mm high
seat: 515mm wide x 390mm deep
back:515mm wide x 200mm high
Tūtohu
zene, dining chair, south africa, hardwood, curved, cooper, danish modern, minimalist
Hangarau Whakanao
The Zene design evolved over a number of years. The starting point was probably a fascination with the art of coopering and how this has been applied to furniture design. Building the segmented seat and backrests took some practice to perfect, as did the development of custom modifications to standard workshop tools to shape and finish the smoothly shaped forms.
Wero Hoahoa
Building the coopered seat/backrests was challenging as it required careful attention to the compression forces on the material and how best to achieve high compression without causing the seats to 'implode'.
Shaping the rough seats into finely finished and smooth curves required considerable re-working of the custom tooling to achieve the desired results
Rangahau
Danish modern designs were studied and absorbed to consider different ways of rendering the frame, and its relationship to the seat, and to think through the spatial relationship of the seat to the backrest.
Web search was used to think about typical dimensions for the seat but in the end prototyping proved most fun.
Whakaaweawe
The beauty grain and colour of indigenous African timber was a key aesthetic inspiration for this project. The more technical inspiration for the overall work, including the frame design came from iconic designers such as Hans J Wegner (for example the CH20 Elbow Chair). The coopering technique was inspired by Ontario furniture designer Adrian Ferrazzutti.
Roanga o te Kaupapa
The first prototype was conceived in Johannesburg in 2007. It was slowly refined as background task over 10 years, and the first set of 6 chairs was produced in 2017
Rerenga Mahi
Zene is designed mainly for use at the dining table and is designed for extended dining comfort.
Pātene
no patents pending
Ngā Mema o te Rōpū
John G Williams: designer, craftsman
Whakamana Whakaahua
all images by the designer: John G Williams

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