Sempoa Nofoa Malolo e New Elegant Co., Ltd.

O le mamanu Sempoa Nofoa Malolo e New Elegant Co., Ltd. o se manumalo maualuga tele o le fa'ailoga mamalu 2025 A' Design Award Ario i le Vaega Tauva Mamanu Meafale.

ArioMeafale· 2025

Sempoa Nofoa Malolo

na mamanuina e New Elegant Co., Ltd.

Tagata Fa'atau: New Elegant Co., Ltd.

Manumalo o le A' Design Award Ario i le Vaega Meafale

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Le Mamanu

E Uiga ia Sempoa Nofoa Malolo

E tu'ufa'atasia e le nofoa Sempoa le fa'aola fa'aleaganu'u ma le aoga fa'aonaponei. Fa'aola mai i le abacus Soroban a Iapani, e iai lona tua ma fatu laulilii e gaoioi e ofoina atu ai le fegalegaleai fa'alagona ma se aafiaga fofō mālie. O fatu, fa'apipi'i i luga o tao u'amea e le eleele ma taofimau e fa'avaa laau fe'ua'i pi'o, e gaoioi fa'atasi ma le tino o le tagata fa'aoga. Ua faia mai laupapa laau mautu fe'asoa'i, o le mamanu e paleni fa'atasi le matagofie fa'atulagaina ma le gafatia, fa'amautu ai le mautu, le sitaili, ma le fa'aosoina o le fegalegaleai a le tagata fa'aoga.

Le Fa'ailogaina

E Uiga i le A' Design Award Ario

O le A' Design Award Ario na manumalo ai Sempoa Nofoa Malolo, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu sili ona lelei, matagofie ma mataʻutia. O ē manumalo i le Ario o galuega susulu tele ma fatufatuaʻi e faaalia ai le poto, le taleni ma le atamai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina Sempoa Nofoa Malolo e avea ma galuega matagofie, o se fesuiaiga mo isi, e iloga i le tomai faapolofesa ma mea fou loloto. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Ario o se mea e iloga, ua mataʻina e aogā ma tuleia atu tapulaʻa o le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi. Sempoa Nofoa Malolo o se mea e fiafia i ai le toatele, e fafagu ai manaʻoga, aumaia ai lagona lelei ma tupu ai le ofo.

I Tua o le Mamanu

Pepa Fa'asalalau

Fa'amaoniaga, sui o le 'au ma fa'amatalaga fa'atekinisi na saunia e le tagata mamanu.

Uiga Fa'apitoa: 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.
Fua & Fa'apipi'i: Width: 720 mm
Depth: 820 mm
Height: 800 mm
Seat Height: 440 mm
Seat Depth: 510 mm
Fa'ailoga: Chair, Life, Work, Massage, Abacus, Wood, Joinery
Tekonolosi Gaosiga: 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.
Lu'itau o le Mamanu: 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.
Su'esu'ega: 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.
Fa'aosofia: 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.
Umi o le Poloketi: The project was designed and developed in Ho Chi Minh from August 2023 until August 2024.
Fa'agasologa o Galuega: 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.
Sui o le 'Au: Director: Wei-Liang Chou
Designer: Aditya Cipta Sugandha
Fa'aaloaloga o Ata: Aditya Cipta Sugandha, 2024.