Bronze Furniture Design · 2024
Velga Folding Chair
- A' Design Award 2024 Bronze Winner in Furniture Design
- Awarded April 15, 2024
- CLIENT: Lab Holz
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 17,054
- Verification code B627056548 · Verify this award
About Velga Folding Chair
A very simple, clean and unique design for a chair, focused on comfort and elegance, made to compose a domestic or corporate environment such a dining room or meeting office. Most of folding chairs are based only on functionality, leaving comfort and aesthetics in the background, this proposal trying to cover all of these needs. Built in cedar wood and biodegradable PLA plastic components, just rotate the seat, close the legs and put it away. Its manufacture brings together manual joinery techniques, computerized cutting and digital manufacturing with a 3d printer.
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- Unique Properties
- VELGA is a very simple and clean design for a folding chair, built in cedar wood and biodegradable PLA plastic components, just rotate the seat, close the legs and put it away
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Material: wood, red cedar
Dimensions:
Open: height 77cm, width 47cm , depth 56cm
Closed: height 97cm, width 47cm , depth 12cm - Tags
- chair, wood, folding, seat
- Production Technology
- The chair is basically made of cedar, its legs and backrest are cut using a cnc machine, the seat is cut manually, both the seat and the backrest have a concavity and are handcrafted using planes to give the feeling of a handmade product, the components of axles and locks are made through 3d printer with biodegradable PLA plastic filament
- Design Challenge
- the biggest challenge of the project was to create something ultra simple, that didn't need fasteners and buttons to use, the development of the axis of rotation for the hind legs was a completely customized system to be able to follow the concept of simplicity and with that to develop the system of locking the legs using the seat
- Project Duration
- The project started its development in april 2023, building the first prototype that required adjustments to the seat and backrest angles, the second prototype validated the angles and allowed working on the development of the components, the final version of the chair was ready in august 2023, with the test of plastic components
- Operation Flow
- The operation of this chair starts by opening the back legs and then rotating the seat until it fits in the locking pins, getting it ready to sit down
- Research
- Most of the folding chairs available on the market have a rectilinear design, which only prioritizes practicality and not comfort, so we returned to the project to develop something comfortable and elegant for a sophisticated environment.
- Inspiration
- Small apartments and the need for practical furniture that can optimize the living space have become common, that's why our proposal is a folding chair, comfortable that can be used both for dining and office, clean and simple design, in wood to provide a elegant and minimalist aesthetic
- Image Credits
- Photographer: Alexandre Zelinsky
Colors of Velga Folding Chair
Design Interview about Velga Folding Chair
the main idea was to have a chair that could be stored without taking up too much space
I wanted it to be a beautiful, comfortable and foldable piece and especially simple to use
I would like to produce on a large scale
took 4 months of development
It was something I already wanted to design, then a client arrived with this need
my intentios is to lease the production rights
It was from an office client who needed a chair for an interchangeable space
simple to store
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Você quis dizer: se diferencia pela simplicidade, beleza e ergonomia
52 / 5.000
It stands out for its simplicity, beauty and ergonomics.
Você quis dizer: se diferencia pela simplicidade, beleza e ergonomia
52 / 5.000
It stands out for its simplicity, beauty and ergonomics.
some friend suggested using the fusion of words foldable ( dobravel in portuguese) with gaia
3d softwares, router cnc, 3d printers, hand tools
The curvature of the chair's back and seat is finished with a manually carved
manufacturing assistance
I checked several chairs, looking for examples of comfortable angles to spend hours sitting without needing cushions.
create the hinges
I thought that because it was a very different example from what was already available globally, it might have a chance at the award
I learned to master the 3D printing process to help develop the chair