We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Manish Maheshwari about their original and creative Accent Chair design work. Manish Maheshwari is an award-winning industrial designer, that makes our world a better place with their original accent chair works.
Manish Maheshwari ("MM") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Ori Accent Chair. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
MM : The structure of a ruffled palm leaf is uniquely formed in nature. The broad circular leaf spanning up to 5ft in diameter originates from one thin branch. This plant leaf inspires the shape and form of the Ori chair. Origami technique became the yin yang fit for translating the ruffled palm leaf form into an ergonomically designed furniture piece. The chairs' colours are derived from the sunflower, making it a stark piece of art as well.
MM : The research and conceptulisation for this design started during the lock down due to pandemic in 2020 and was finished in 3 months.
MM : No, the design is not being produced or used by another company. we are producing the chair ourselves. but we are open to sell or lease the production rights to interested company or a studio.
MM : Ori as the name suggest to the word Origami, the art to folding paper into 3d forms which is also the inspiration and method applied in designing this chair.
MM : The precision cutting of slits required to hand fold the metal sheet easily and to achieve such forms the laser cutting technology is being used.
MM : The Ori chair challenged our 7 years of experience working with metal since combining metal with origami techniques in itself is a challenge. Working on relieving pressure at the ridges by bringing in the right slit dimension and connecting the bridge between two slits to avoid sheer in metal proved strenuous. Break-through was about getting it right for an individual to bend manually by hands. It became essential to hit the sweet spot for the number of folds to get perfect ergonomics which finally came through trials and errors.
