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Spring Multifunctional Chair by Navid Ghandili

Spring Multifunctional Chair

Golden A' Design Award Winner 2021

Navid Ghandili's Spring Multifunctional Chair presents itself through a sophisticated interior vignette where three cylindrical furniture pieces command the foreground, their stacked drum forms rendered in a harmonious palette of warm cream, soft ivory, and natural oak tones that establish an immediately serene chromatic temperature across the composition. The primary focal element occupies the center-foreground position, its inverted configuration revealing the golden honey-colored wood grain of an interior bowl-like cavity that catches raking light from an implied upper-left source, creating luminous passages of amber and pale butterscotch that contrast beautifully against the matte, slightly textured exterior surfaces suggesting woven natural fiber or refined composite material. The compositional architecture follows a triangular armature, with the three furniture pieces arranged in diminishing scale from left background through right middle-ground to center foreground, establishing clear spatial recession through overlapping forms and proportional diminution. The left unit rises tallest, crowned with a live-edge oak surface upon which rests a sculptural bonsai-like arrangement of magenta-pink flowering branches in an earth-toned vessel, introducing a concentrated chromatic accent that enlivens the otherwise neutral palette with quinacridone-rose vitality. The right unit displays similar stacked cylindrical construction with a curved cutaway revealing a plush taupe cushion, demonstrating the multifunctional seating capability through an elegant negative-space intervention. Behind this furniture grouping, a dramatic circular artwork dominates the middle ground, depicting a stylized feminine profile in gold, ochre, and honeycomb patterning against a dark ground, its circular format echoing the cylindrical geometries below while introducing figurative and decorative elements that ground the scene in contemplative domesticity. The background wall treatment features dramatic grey marble with sinuous white veining that creates organic flowing patterns contrasting the geometric precision of the furniture forms. The floor plane extends this material dialogue through polished stone surfaces displaying similar grey-brown marbling with cream-colored striations that catch ambient light and establish reflective luminosity across the lower picture plane. Lighting throughout suggests soft directional illumination from upper left, generating gentle graduated shadows on the furniture surfaces while maintaining overall atmospheric brightness appropriate to contemporary interior photography. The spatial construction employs shallow depth with clear figure-ground separation, the furniture pieces reading as sculptural objects against the textured backdrop, while atmospheric perspective remains minimal given the interior setting. Textural diversity enriches the visual experience through contrasts between smooth polished stone, woven matte furniture surfaces, lustrous wood grain, soft fabric cushioning, and the organic irregularity of flowering branches. Edge treatment varies strategically, with crisp definition on furniture contours softening slightly where forms meet reflective floor surfaces, creating naturalistic optical integration. The stylistic coordinates suggest contemporary Scandinavian-influenced furniture design photography with evident attention to warm minimalism, biophilic integration through botanical elements, and the celebration of natural materials within refined geometric frameworks.

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.