Bronze Furniture Design · 2023
Wall O Wall Seat
- A' Design Award 2023 Bronze Winner in Furniture Design
- Awarded April 15, 2023
- CLIENT: Espaces Sarl
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 13,408
- Verification code 7119C0D3EA · Verify this award
About Wall O Wall Seat
Wall-O is a smart and elegant wall capsule. At home, in the office or in a waiting room, it serves as a kind cocoon which protects you from noise and prying eyes. Thanks to its recycled PET envelope and its eco-friendly textile interior of the highest quality, Wall-O is environmentally friendly. Its radical and minimalist lines are studied with the aim to offer the ideal space to feel comfortably settled and to be able to free one's mind and feel safe.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Wall-O offers itself as an intelligent and elegant wall capsule.
At home, in the office or in a waiting room, it serves as a cocoon that protects you from noise and prying eyes. Thanks to its recycled PET casing and the highest quality ecological textile interior, Wall-O is environmentally friendly. Its radical and minimalist lines are studied with the aim of offering the ideal space to feel comfortable and to be able to free your mind and feel safe. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 760 mm x 500 mm x 1720 mm
- Tags
- Wall-O, seat, capsule, wall seat, wall capsule
- Project Duration
- project started in November 2020 in Grandvillard (CH). The first prototype left the workshops in February 2022 and the final version in June 2022. It received an award at the European Product Design Awards in August 2022
- Operation Flow
- Wall-O simply attaches to the wall, in your living room or in a waiting room. Its soft acoustic envelope in PET felt invites you to immerse yourself in it as in a benevolent cocoon. The absorbing effect of ambient sound immediately gives you serenity and undressed comfort.
- Inspiration
- The first idea was to develop a seat to relax on a large unoccupied wall of a house. After radicalizing its envelope, the shape of the capsule became evident. The challenge was to fix the seat to the wall, without visible fixing, while keeping it light and sober, as if to encourage curiosity about an unusual seat.
- Image Credits
- Frédéric Grangier
Colors of Wall O Wall Seat
Design Interview about Wall O Wall Seat
I wanted to create a relaxation area, a wall cocoon for small moments of detachment.
I have always sought sobriety in this object. An aggressive, angular or loaded design, does not allow you to relax.
I want to make it evolve, so that it can respond to different atmospheres. But its basic concept must be preserved.
From the first idea, to the realization of the first marketable model, it took about two years.
I simply followed an inspiration. I find these to be the most difficult objects to create, because there are no constraints, so no guide lines.
The product is currently manufactured by a partner, and marketed by my own company. However, a partnership on production rights is not excluded.
I am a very stubborn person. Once an idea gets into my mind, you have to work hard to get it out of it. And as this idea still seemed original to me, I really wanted to continue.
The whole stage of the project was done very autonomously. I find it difficult to integrate people into the creative stages, because the divergent opinions, the tastes are not the same and you have to keep the very essence of your own creation. But afterwards, I gladly receive advice, such as on this design, for technical design or material proposals.
Perhaps as the main target, public spaces, which need to offer small parenthesis to passers-by. But also banking institutions, museums and others, in which we seek above all calm and privacy
The curiosity it arouses, as if suspended in time
Simply by the alliance of its location and design
The basics, drawing and models
After the creation phase, Ja'i calls on a company specializing in custom furniture for technical design. They are now the ones who manufacture it.
There is not much technology in this design. The technologies can be used during its manufacture, but in a relatively basic way. Simple object, simple use.
Its location, free on a wall or on a blank surface, required research to ensure its safety. Its envelope being made of flexible material, it was not necessary to rely on it for the structure
Thanks to one of my former teachers, who always told me, if you create, be proud and show what you are capable of, do not keep it to yourself.
I learned so much. In so many areas: perseverance, patience, doubt, eliminating doubt. Each creation is formative, each project, each meeting...