Bronze Furniture Design · 2022
Meta Cell Pool Table
- A' Design Award 2022 Bronze Winner in Furniture Design
- Awarded April 15, 2022
- CLIENT: Villasufia
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 13,631
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About Meta Cell Pool Table
Meta Cell is a pool table designed to suit many different interiors. The form is inspired by imagined alien creatures that change shape to remain unseen, and the soft silhouettes help the table fit into varied environments. The futuristic legs support both the appearance and the function of the pool table. Meta Cell is made of fiber-reinforced plastic for higher stability, and the top surface has a glazed finish that is easy to clean. The design invites users to observe and think about the surrounding world.
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- Unique Properties
- The piece can live in any different environment due to its design and soft silhouettes. It has been made with fiber-reinforced plastic with raw material to give it higher stability and, the top surface has a glazed finish to make it easy to clean and preserve its genuine beauty forever.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 157(W)*281.5(L)*85(H) cm
Stone plate weight: 300kg
total weight:480 kg
Loadable weight: 1100 kg - Tags
- Meta Cell Pool Table, Futuristic, Modern, Fiber Carbon, Table, Furniture, Aliens, Space, Planets
- Production Technology
- model Manufacturing
process: CNC milling & 3D printing.
Material:
FRP Fiber-reinforced plastic
Color cout: PU polyurethane - Design Challenge
- The main challenge was to meet the market demand for a piece of futuristic furniture in various forms of protective symbols, transforming the alien's shapes into the pieces with stimulating curiosity, joining performance and aesthetics beside emotional connection between the object, aliens, and the users.
- Project Duration
- The Project has been designed in Tehran in 2022.
- Operation Flow
- The futuristic form of the legs has been designed not only for aesthetics and reaching the function ideally but also to complete its concept. Also, It makes an emotional connection between the users and the creatures of other planets by its design.
- Research
- I have always tried to design something unique and meaningful. Obviously, there are many ideas behind each design, which is no different. Many sketches have been done to simplify the complicated forms besides protecting its futuristic style and making an emotional connection between the project and the users by design. Furthermore, research has been done to explore the different signs of the creatures from the space on our planet and how to transfer the signs to the shape of furniture.
- Inspiration
- The Meta Cell is a pool table inspired by the aliens and exploring the mysterious and curious signs of them that have been left on our planet. The concept is about a story in that aliens change their shapes into weird forms to hide from being seen by humans. This project is designed to encourage the sense of thinking and reasoning and not simply disregard the events and the world around.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer, Janblak studio, Image, 2021.
Image #2: Photographer, Janblak studio, Image, 2021.
Image #3: Photographer, Janblak studio, Image, 2021.
Image #4: Photographer, Janblak studio, Image, 2021.
Image #5: Photographer, Janblak studio, Image, 2021.