We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer about their original and creative design work. is an award-winning creative designer, that makes our world a better place with their original works.
("") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work . Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
: I usually design things which naturally moves me to do so. Chairs and seats are very often the pieces I prefer to design. But I prefer not to define my style. I think style develops and changes with us. A good thing of being able to build your own designs, is that they can be improved while being constructed. So the drawing is like a map that gives us the idea, shows us the way. But the process of building it, has important effect on the final design.
: I just wanted to build it. To try the joinery and to see if all worked. It is so nice to try ergonomics, to make it works well. I wanted to take it of the paper and to see it for real.
: Exploit publicity. Develop good relation with other companies and interested clients.
: May be the initial idea was maturing during some time, but once I drawed it, it took about 4 months to be realized.
: It came as an inspiration. I wanted to use three legs on my designs and I was also inspired about the use of ropes too. So, when I was at the workshop, working on the first prototype, the idea of using rope came up as a solution for making the backrest.
: I pretend both. Producing it in my company, with special tropical hardwood. And license it to some international company.
: I wanted to experiment all the building process. To see if the idea of a small, yet comfortable chair, worked.
: Yes. I would say that Joaquim Tenreiro, Morito Ebine has influenced me on doing this work.
: People who loves wooden made furniture design.
: It is self explanatory. Three legged chair. And there was a great Portuguese designer and woodworker who lived in Rio de Janeiro. He's name was Joaquim Tenreiro. He has created a piece that I love very much. It has a completely different design, but is called the "Three legged chair". So it is kind of an inspiration on that way too.
: Well, this design was hand draw on paper on scale 1:1. Then, at the workshop we have used many woodworking tools - that I consider designs tools as well - they were: Planers, saws, lathe, routers, drills, scrapers, sanders.
: I guess the design of the joint of the back foot and the backrest support and the solution to stretch the backrests rope.
: I have worked with skilled woodworkers.
: For some time now I have been studying wood drying process. This design is very much influenced by these studies.
: The challenges were: developing improvement on wooden joints and also on wood drying techniques.
: I was invited by the A Design Award and I decided to accept participating on the competition.
: I learned a lot! Every time we develop something new, there are new challenges. So, we improved woodworking techniques, gained wood drying knowledge, developed chair construction and knowledge in ergonomics.
