Golden A' Design Award Winner 2021
Within the contemporary landscape of furniture design, Navid Ghandili's Spring Multifunctional Chair emerges as a thoughtful meditation on form, function, and the enduring human desire for adaptable living environments. The design demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of volumetric composition, employing the cylinder as primary generative geometry while introducing subtle variations through stacking, scale modulation, and strategic material transitions that transform a fundamental geometric primitive into a family of related yet distinct functional objects. The warm material palette, dominated by natural oak surfaces and cream-toned exterior wrapping, suggests an affinity with Scandinavian design traditions that have long privileged the honest expression of natural materials, the celebration of wood grain character, and the pursuit of democratic beauty through restrained formal vocabulary. Technical accomplishment manifests in the seamless integration of disparate functional requirements within unified sculptural forms, the curved cutaway revealing cushioned seating speaks to ergonomic consideration without compromising visual coherence, while the flat oak surfaces provide practical utility for display and daily use. The live-edge treatment on certain pieces introduces controlled naturalistic irregularity that counterbalances the geometric precision of the cylindrical volumes, suggesting dialogue between human fabrication and organic material origin. Thematically, the work appears to explore questions of spatial efficiency and visual calm, proposing furniture that serves multiple purposes while maintaining the contemplative quietude increasingly valued in domestic environments. The staging context, with its carefully curated accessories including flowering branches and circular artwork, positions the design within broader conversations about biophilic integration and the role of natural elements in fostering wellbeing. The circular motifs recurring throughout the composition, from furniture form to background artwork, establish visual rhythm while potentially evoking associations with wholeness, cyclical renewal, and the seasonal reference embedded in the design name itself. Viewers might consider how such furniture transforms the relationship between object and space, inviting reflection on what we ask our domestic environments to provide.
The design of this chair is inspired by a flower bud. It opens like a blossom and it will be reminiscent of spring. In this design, three functions have been tried to fit in one furniture in addition to being economical, it can take up less space. The technology used in this design is the use of five aluminum springs that hold it by the clamp lever. It is made by gluing wooden layers on top of each other and cutting them in a circle, which is finally covered with oak wood veneer in two colors, natural and white.