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Yuan Chair 圓椅

Furniture design   / Art installation

AWARD :

RIBA Furniture Competition - High Commendation Award

Concept

The Yuan Chair is a collection inspired from traditional Chinese drum stool.

Taking the drum stool’s simple form, the Yuan Chair was designed with a twist of modern parametric style. The name Yuan(元) means money in Chinese. It also has the same pronunciation as Circle(圓) or Perfection(完) in Cantonese as well. The patterning on the chair resembles coins in ancient china. It represents wealth and fortune which was a common motif in traditional Chinese furniture. The parametric coin pattern morphs and flow in such a way that it offers a new interpretation of the old porcelain one. The dynamic expression represents a flux of fusion between the East and West, traditional and innovation, Yin and Yang.

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