chair - 2017

1ST PLACE: GOPALKRISHNA PAI KANE, SELLA, INDIA

A chair is the most exclusive piece of furniture in a person's home. The Sella chair is modern but simple. Its style allows you to beautify your living room, dining room, office, gym, playroom or other setting without much effort. It is designed in a modern style and manages to adapt to most different home arrangements. Sella can go perfectly with a dining table or several tables in a dining room that needs something new. On the other hand, it can act as a spare seating area that you can use for your guests. Its clean aesthetic works as a premium piece of equipment that will work well in both formal and less formal settings. The chair is the right mix of style and functionality. Its construction is "friendly". The sides of the chair are connected to the front and back sides, which are hidden in its legs in such a way as to give the chair additional strength and stability. The chair is machine cut from a 25 mm wooden panel. The cut parts are assembled into a chair with screws. The chair is easy to assemble, no glue is needed for assembly. Rounded corners and gentle curves ensure that sitting is more pleasant and soothing. The bottom of the legs has a rubber pad that prevents scratches on the floor. It is easy to maintain, with regular dusting or using a common furniture cleaner. All screws are sunk into the surface and act as part of the design.

2ND PLACE: ŽAN GIRANDON, ZIBA, SLOVENIA

The Ziba lounger, which is built from curved plywood, seat and backrest from oak elements and strips from recycled rubber (or other recycled elastic material), is a symbol of an island and a corner where the user can find time to rest. A kind of cradle for a grown man. It is a modern interpretation of a manger and an artificially assembled human nest that is both comfortable and different. The warmth and homeliness of wood is emphasized in the recliner, because wherever we are in contact with the recliner, we touch the wood. Private space is also emphasized, as we are in a recliner in a kind of partitioned space defined by a circle. The recliner provides the user with different sitting positions and at the same time ensures that even when resting, we perform small movements, move ourselves, in a way even "float" embraced by the wooden support. In this way, we maintain a better flow through the body and thereby relieve the entire body alternately and as evenly as possible. Therefore, the recliner is more attractive, interesting and more ergonomic than recliners that are designed only as a deep seat or only as a bed. We control our own balance and thus are not completely passive in our rest, thereby avoiding pain. The seat and backrest are designed in such a way that they provide us with support on the left and right side, and the spine is quite free, so we do not press on the recliner with the exposed parts of the bones.

3RD PLACE: MAURICIO VALDES AND SERGIO SOTELO, THE ARROW CHAIR, MEXICO

When creating and designing a wooden chair, there is always a real challenge in the structural part of the task, and this design is no exception. It is an arrow-shaped chair and is assembled by connecting its center with the front legs and armrest. It can be made using CNC technology and is made of 3/4" thick wood with a T-shaped profile that is sharpened with a trapezoidal cut. Its structure is light and meets all ergonomic requirements, such as rounded corners on the seat and backrest. It is very convenient and easy to manufacture. "There is no limit to what two minds can create..."