Iron Furniture Design · 2022
Kuan Armchair
- A' Design Award 2022 Iron Winner in Furniture Design
- Awarded April 15, 2022
- CLIENT: FNJI x Frank Chou
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 10,808
- Verification code 3B4FC10093 · Verify this award
About Kuan Armchair
Kuan is an armchair designed for contemporary living spaces. The structure is simple and unpretentious, combining metal with wool upholstery. The volume of the seat, the lines of the frame and the contrast between solid and empty forms reflect the reserved character of oriental philosophy. The cover is made of imported wool fabric, stabilized by a traditional process to create a smooth surface with good resistance to wear and pilling. Layers of sponge of different densities are combined to give a comfortable seat. Kuan is available with different covering materials.
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- Unique Properties
- Kuan Chair represents a style of contemporary oriental manner. The structure of this chair is simple and unpretentious. With high quality metal and wool materials, Kuan Chair also reveals the bywords for elegance and wisdom. The different feelings experienced by the volume of its seat, the lines of its structure, and the contrast between substance and emptiness, almost shows the reserved thoughts in Oriental philosophy. It is available with different covering materials.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 690 mm x 735 mm x 670 mm
- Tags
- timeless, contrast, oriental, experimental
- Production Technology
- Kuan Chair adopts Italian brand imported wool fabric, which is stabilized by traditional process to obtain specific surface effect, giving smooth and soft hand feeling, and can achieve excellent resistance to pilling and wear resistance.
- Design Challenge
- The challenge could be how to explore the possibility of future living through design, which requires a deep understanding of the living status of people and the culture background that different from the others. Also, as part of daily life, chair plays a close role with people, which correspond with their living habits and personality.
- Project Duration
- Kuan Chair was designed and produced in 2018.
- Operation Flow
- Cloth cover to take tight package process, soft package body form three-dimensional distinct, cloth surface flat fit, using multiple layers of different density of sponge combination filling to achieve a comfortable sitting feeling.
- Research
- Kuan Chair is a new experimental series design by Frank Chou for furniture brand Fnji. It is vested diversified color and outline, meanwhile added in plenty of software and metal element. It contains the modern oriental ideology, molding the pioneer concept of exploring the ability of Chinese future lifestyle.
- Inspiration
- Kuan Chair is one of the pieces Frank Chou designed for FNJI. It is more free and agility in design, aim at modern and young generation, fusing contemporary design language, simple but warm, elegant and timeless. It contains the modern oriental ideology, molding the pioneer concept of exploring the ability of Chinese future lifestyle.