2017 PORTFOLIO
FURNITURE DESIGN
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CONTENT
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SELF INICIATE PROJECT WAY OUT RARRA LOCK BIRDY STOOL TRASHURE
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JAPANESE CRAFTMANSHIP INSPIRED FINEWRITING INTERNATIONAL LTD. PROJECTS TAIPEI WISTORIA TEA HOUSE EXHIBITION EXHIBITION EXPERIENCES
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SELF INICIATED PROJECTS I make and design these furnitures. The inspirations behind these results are from my cultural background or my daily surrendings. I enjoy discovering knowledge and ideas during the processes.
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01 WAY OUT
REINTERPRETED CLASSIC MING CHAIR WITHIN CONTEMPERARY CONTEXT 6
Material : Beech wood, Paint Dimension : 110 x 55 x 105 cm
MA graduation project Formex design students selected
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Story telling method
Travel is imagined, described and sensed. This bench embodies that, it’s curves representing travelers gathering around or travel paths to a space (the seat). The joint details portray people meeting and embracing each other. This imaginary expression is also a traditional belief in Ming chairs. I selected one type of Ming chair, Quanyi, in which the round back curve represents the sky, and the squared seat the earth. When one sits in the chair, one is embraced by the universe. In this project, I have used storytelling as a method to reinterpret the Ming chair and move it away from conventions.
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Process MING CHAIR x TRAVEL CONCEPT
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Inspired by my own traveling experiences.Share Ming chair history and exchange view points with international friends.
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Use Laser-cutting machine to make deconstructed Ming chair curves.
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Using those curves to remake various chair mockups with friends.
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Select and make my final chair models. 9
Mockups I find that the chair shape would be too complicated to produce (with multiple curves) after examining all the mockups. I wanted to develop an easier production process so I decided to just include the ‘U’ and ‘L’ curves in the final design.curve in the end. I wanted to create a travelling feeling by repeating the same curve. By doing this it would create the sensation of a journey. Curves are connected in unexpected ways to represent those surprises in my own travelling experiences.
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Details While traveling, I always have to adapt to new environments. This subconscious feeling has led to the joinery design of the bench. This ‘hugging’ joint represents the support I have always experienced from new friends around the world while we were travelling on the same path.
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02 RARRA
A PLAYFUL CREATURE THAT MAKES GREAT COMPANY FOR READING
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Design in cooperated with Petter Fjellman Furniture upholstered by Ellen Johansson Daniela Arell
Material : Ash wood, Fabric Dimension : 80 x 40 x 65 cm 13
Process
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Figure transition in Solidwork 14
Children client
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Playful figure Wood workshop Upholstery masters
In cooperation with the kindergarten we held a workshop so that my partner and I could find out the needs of the children in the context of the library space. Through our research and the workshop we came up with a number of keywords; playful, colour and interactive movement. For this project, myself and my partner were in charge of designing and building the wooden frame and the appearance (with upholstery completed). Once the wooden frame was completed we handed it over to the upholstery students to complete the work. We met with them beforehand and discussed our ideas about how we imagined the final product to be. One thing they advised us was that the piece needed to be taken apart, so that it could be reupholstered in the future. We took this into consideration when constructing the wooden frame. 15
Details
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Texture
A pocket was included for personal belongings or extra book storage. Watch out! because it might bite your finger.
Instead of a flat surface on the seating area, we wanted to make it more tactile so we designed the seat upholstery to be ribbed.
Movement We designed the feet to have a slight angle on the bottom so that the user could rock from side to side. Our research told us that having a slight rocking motion can actually help the user to focus and concentrate.
We wanted to add a natural touch into the design, so we chose to make the major facial elements in Ash wood. 17
03 LOCK
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A MODULAR SELF ASSEMBLY BENCH SYSTEM 1.V shaped metal rail goes trough the back legs. 2.Screw the side supports in place. 3.Attach the front bar to the front legs. 4.Screw the front rail to the V shaped metal rail. Project course in cooperation with Gärsnäs 18
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Material : Birch wood, Metal Dimensions : 50 x 50 x 65 cm 19
Details
Knock down idea
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I design a portable construction which is secured by the front squared bar.
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The circle diameter is the same as the wideth of the thin bar. The diamod shape is a circumscribed square.
Place the bar in vertically from above so that it fits into the thin rounded hole.
Turn the exposed diamond face of the bar clockwise to lock the construction.
Module system
Different lengths of front rail make different lengths of seats.
Adjustable back
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04 BIRADY STOOL
FURNITURE CAN BE A FOREVER PET THAT MAKES SPACE ALIVE & JOYFUL
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Material : Various wood speices, Leather Dimensions : 42x42x50 cm, 40x40x45 cm, 46x46x38 cm 23
Details
Birdy stool is inspired by an early morning woodturning practice together with the pleasant chinese bulbul bird's sounds upon the branches. Every stool represents distinctive character due to the wooden grain arrangment and the leg shape. The design purpose is to leave a satisfied and joyful sensation into a simple furniture.
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/ From upper left to bottom right / Wooden grain arrangment. Stool itself is a 2.5 cm thicness container. 3D moded leather bags serve as bird wings. All the Birdy feet is hand made in place. Different type of feet increase the Birdy diversity.
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Process
The idea was easy but the process is complicated. By gluing pieces of wood into rings and turning them into a hollow round shape instead of having a solid wooden log, I can make good use of the most material and reduce a lot of weight. Personal belongings can be stored within the stool. The leather bags was made with a mode and the palm was carved by hand. This project had been ordered and reproduced for private collection.
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Birdy family
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05 TRASHURE
BE AWARE OF ACCUMULATIONS ON THE TABLE TOP
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Material : Ash wood, Leather, Strechy fabric Dimension : 105 x 60 x 75 cm Milk magazine selected top15 in Stockholm Furniture Fair Green House 29
FROM AN ABSTRACT CONCEPT TO A SOILD PIECE OF FURNITURE
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Location research
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About The inspiration comes both from the floodgate in Dals LĂĽnged and from a messy table top. The main concept is developed from two facts I discovered from examining the floodgate. One is the internal body of water in the lock chamber which forming patterns. The other contrast effect is water as a natural soft material trapped by the man-made metal frame. I have used elastic fabric and leather to illustrate accumulation because they are shaped by and highlights the objects they contain. The less it contains, the more organized you are.Plus, wooden structure, three different materials with similar color present a playful metaphor to tell another way of organizing the table. 31
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How to increase the awareness of accumulation?
Strechy fabric reveals how much you accumulate. When it is too much loaded, the fabric will go so low and reach the user's leg.
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/ Clockwise description / A hidden elastic space to store personal belongings. Limited table space to limit a messy person's bad habit. Fine joinery and foldedleather.
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Japanese craftmanship inspired
OTHER EXPERIENCE Since 2008 I started my self practice in woodworking together with my bachelor education. I am deeply influented by Japanese craftsmanship in my early furniture design. To examine my joinery skill, I took a national Cabinet making certificate in Taiwan. Now I hold class B. My craft skills got me the chance to work with exclusive market. One is to work with Fine writing international Ltd. company and the other is a Tea house.
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Finewriting international Ltd. projects
Taipei Wistoria Tea House exhibition
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JAPANESE CRAFTSMANSHIP INSPIRED I was deeply fascinated by the Japanese wood craft. I appreciate the sophisticated and delicate joinery and respect the attitude of craftsman to the material and the tools. These projects are done for practices or commisions.
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/ From upper left to bottom right / 1.Boild egg stool 2.Z shelf with three drawers in continous wooden grain 3.Chisel house & my daily essentials 4.U stool with joinery 5.Renovate a dumbed cabinet 6.Butterfly key on rated wood 7.Scallion chair 8.Fine dovetail joint practice 9.Use Japanese knife for edge cutting 10. Making a drawer slide 37
FINE WRITING INTERNATIONAL LTD. My work content is to design and make custmorized wooden product related to pen storage or stationary. Some products are in small scale production.
stationary case ink holder pencils irregular pen stand
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pen stand
bookmark
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TEA CULTURE EXHIBITION IN TAIPEI WISTARIA TEA HOUSE 40
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About Objects&furniture: I colloect lots of short wasted material from the wood sawmill and intuitively carve them into a sculptual container for tea. Each teascoop takes me 3 days to complete. 2mm thickness allow the user to feel the delicacy and the outline diversity. I carved at least 20 tea scoop for the exhbibiton.I also make table, accessory and serving tray. In a tea ceremony, tea scoop is used as a tea server passing around people for them to smell the tea before tea got pured into the teapot.
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/ From upper left to bottom right / Tea scoop is passed around in an tea ceremony. Tea scoop is used as a server. Various wood spieces are used to increase the playfulness. A tea ceremony with all exhibition associates. Furniture and all the objects are made and setup.
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Exhibition: 2017 Design students selected, Formex Interior Fair, Sweden 2017 HDK Examen, FixfabrikenvLantvärnsgatan 4, Göteborg,Sweden 2017 Steneby Exhibit, Steneby Konsthall, Dals Långed, Sweden 2017 Work in progress, Fritidsagenturen, Göteborg, Sweden 2016 Stories by the water, Ventura Lambrate, Milan, Italy 2016 Continuum, Bengtsfors konsthall, Sweden 2016 Events by the water, Green house Stockholm furniture fair,Sweden 2015 Events by the water, A-venue, Göteborg, Sweden 2015 En idé tar form, Lidköpings Konsthall, Sweden 2013 Taiwan Lanyang Museum annual exhibition 2013 Taiwan international cultural and creative industry expo 2012 Graduate show at National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan 2012 Young designers’ exhibition at Taipei World Trade Centre, Taiwan 2012 Liouduei Hakka design exhibition, Taiwan 2012 Young creative expo at Taiwan Design Museum, Taiwan 2012 Taipei world trade centre furniture exhibition, Taiwan 2011 Wistaria tea house / display and sell, Taiwan Press: 2017 GP newspaper commened by Art critic Boel Ulfsdotter WAY OUT 2016 Milk DECORATION magazine "Top 15 Stockholm Furniture Fair" TRASHURE Course & Workshop 2012 2012 2015 2015 2017
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Pingtung Liouduei Hakka design work camp, Taiwan New taipei city arts and educational festival, Taiwan Drivhuset 24, Sweden Upholstery summer course. Stiftelsen Stenebyskolan, Sweden Professional Steam Bending Course, Charlie Whinney studio,Cumbria,UK
THANK YOU
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