RIZA AIR Lounge chair
Design by TDT (Thelos Design Team)
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Product sheet
Awards
Designer profile
Company profile
Interview with designer
Contact
Salmerón, 68 1C 08222 Terrassa BARCELONA T.+34 931 759 037 info@thelos.cat www.thelos.cat
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PRESS RELEASE
Thelos Design Team has been awarded with the prominent Bronze A' Design Award
Como, Italy, April 26, 2014 /DESIGNPRWIRE/
A' Award and Competitions are pleased to announce that the work Riza Air by Thelos Design
Team has been acknowledged with the famous Bronze A' Design Award at Furniture, Decorative
Items and Homeware Design Competition
Furniture, Decorative Items and Homeware Design Competition Bronze A' Design Award Winner
A' Award and Competitions are delighted to share that the work Riza Air by Thelos Design Team
has been honored with the famous Bronze A' Design Award at Furniture, Decorative Items and
Homeware Design Competition highlighted as the winner by the international judges of the A'
Design Awards & Competitions within thousands of nominations.
Salmerón, 68 1C 08222 Terrassa BARCELONA T.+34 931 759 037 info@thelos.cat www.thelos.cat
Insights on Riza Air
Thelos Design Team, the designer of the awarded work Riza Air demonstrates “Contemporary
design chair suitable for lounge areas of clubs, residences and hotels. Made with a organic look
structure complemented with a special grid on the back, the Riza chair is only realized with sustainable solid wood and natural varnishes. The design inspiration comes from the work of the
Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and the legacy that the modernist architect left in Barcelona,
ever inspired on nature elements and organic look.” Learn more at:
https://competition.adesignaward.com/design.php?ID=31295
Project Members for Riza Air
Riza Air was designed by Thelos Design Team
The Bronze A' Design Award
The Bronze A' Design Award is a prestigious award given to top 10% percentile designs that has
exhibited an exemplary level of quality in design. The designs are judged by a panel of three
different jury which is composed of Academic, Professional and Focus Group Members. The designs are evaluated with score normalization to remove any biases and are voted on aspects
such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, fun details,
technology, and any other specific points that could be considered, each of these points are
further weighted for different jury groups.
About A' Design Award and Competitions
A'Design Award and Competitions, aims to highlight the excellent qualifications of best designs,
design concepts and design oriented products. A' Design Award and Competitions are organized and awarded annually and internationally in multiple categories to reach a wide, designoriented audience. Learn more at: http://www.whatisadesignaward.com
Relevant Website
More info could be found at https://competition.adesignaward.com/design.php?ID=31295
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PRODUCT SHEET
DESIGN NAME:
Riza Air
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
Lounge chair
Salmerón, 68 1C 08222 Terrassa BARCELONA T.+34 931 759 037 info@thelos.cat www.thelos.cat
INSPIRATION:
‘This design comes from the idea to creating a chair with organic aesthetic influences from
the original works of the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí. This challenge has been possible
thanks to capturing the creative dynamic of the city of Barcelona and its famous architecture contemporary breezes, the exact atmosphere that the great modernist architect was
inspired. Is from this inspiration place where born this special design.’
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Contemporary design chair with an organic structure of high visual force that is complemented with an original back that confers special exclusivity for its users.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION:
The idea of the design of this chair is induce to a visual impact to the viewer and the use this
chair makes you feels a special experience that endures in the time.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION:
This project began in September 2012 when a group of David designers friends met in Barcelona design week and they discovering the potential synergy between their focus of design
and finished in July 2013 with concrete the collaboration and preparing the launch of this
chair with ultimate details.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY:
Furniture, Decorative Items and Homeware Design
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY:
This chair is produced fully with solid wood and made with the highest specialized machinery
and with the know-how to get the special features that define its forms. The back is made
with a lot of slim solid wood pieces assembled with scrupulous delicacy. The finished is only
with matte oil water-based varnish and it's available with some organic colors.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES:
Width 650 x Depth 700 x Height 750mm.
TAGS:
lounge chair, design, contemporary, wood, organic, sustainability
Salmerón, 68 1C 08222 Terrassa BARCELONA T.+34 931 759 037 info@thelos.cat www.thelos.cat
RESEARCH ABSTRACT:
Researching the limits of technology and natural forms and using wood-based as a work
platform, we've designed the parts with extreme curvatures but limited by wooden plank
possibilities, getting pieces without wastage and trying to maintain a serene aesthetic criteria to conclude the pieces without too much joints. We've tried to harmonize everything
together once assembled and polished with maximum sensitivity. We use sustainable materials and environmentally friendly from its origin to the finishes to culminate this finest work.
CHALLENGE:
Working together with new Barcelona members of Thelos design team has been instrumental for carrying out this project and get to make a chair with modern and striking aesthetic
with a warm touch of organic shapes, to play and balance these two aspects to the limit of
the imagination. It's a very special piece that needs to be in special places, like a famous art
picture deserves the best museum or the better owner.
TEAM MEMBERS (1) :
Thelos Design Team
IMAGE CREDITS:
Àngel Roig
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AWARDS
A’Design Awards 2014 (Italy)
Riza Air lounge chair is Bronze A' Design Award Winner for Furniture, Decorative Items and
Homeware Design Category in 2013-14
TDT for Thelos
Salmerón, 68 1C 08222 Terrassa BARCELONA T.+34 931 759 037 info@thelos.cat www.thelos.cat
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DESIGNER PROFILE
DESIGNER NAME
Thelos Design Team
ORGANIZATION:
Thelos
NON-DESIGN OCCUPATION:
Furniture designer Media, graphic, printing, culture, design
EDUCATION:
Specialized design team with people with more than 13 years of furniture design experience
and masters done in selected industrial design schools in Barcelona.
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Catalan (Native), Spanish (Native), English
WEB SITE:
www.thelos.cat
PORTFOLIO URL:
www.thelos.cat
COUNTRY:
Spain
Salmerón, 68 1C 08222 Terrassa BARCELONA T.+34 931 759 037 info@thelos.cat www.thelos.cat
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COMPANY PROFILE
COMPANY NAME:
Thelos
PROFILE:
Thelos is a furniture design edition brand from Barcelona that selects, with sensitive art and
design criteria, the most fine contemporary furniture designs from the worldwide designers
and artists to get extraordinary experiences for its users. Thelos produces with the most suitable and natural materials and with totally sustainable criteria. It controls all origins of wood
and fabric, clean manufacturing processes, handmade finishes of each piece, non synthetic contents on any finishes and avoiding any negatively impact to the people who manipulate it, to the final users and to the environment. Thelos produces fine furniture at the highest
technician and of excellence level and with all empathy to the users and the planet. In
short: pure design, pure empathy.
David Farell CEO & Art director
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INTERVIEW WITH THE DESIGNER
Editor Frank Scott (FS) from DesignPRWire has interviewed designer team TDT (TD) for A' Design Awards and Competition.
Interview with Thelos Design Team at Thursday 17th of April 2014 View Interview online here
FS: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
TD: The main idea to create this design is born an especial design chair that it connotes the
essence on modernism aesthetics of Barcelona mixed with a contemporary design touch.
FS: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to
achieve?
TD: The main focus is show the organic look of wood working hand like as the modernist architect Antoni Gaudí had worked their architecture elements, ever inspired in nature topics
that he always reinterpreted it on buildings. In this case applied in furniture, applied it in a
special chair.
Salmerón, 68 1C 08222 Terrassa BARCELONA T.+34 931 759 037 info@thelos.cat www.thelos.cat
FS: What are your future plans for this award winning design?
TD: First, we want to celebrate this prize together with Thelos design Team. Then we'll work
hard to divulge this design, with added value thanks to this prize, to the worldwide interior
design public. And we leverage to learn from every particular feedback for our knowledge
and try to continue this look line work in the next projects.
FS: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
TD: We worked 3 months for the first concept and then 1 year to work hard for the first prototypes.
FS: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you
decide to pursuit an inspiration?
TD: We think that the modernism movement always inspired in nature was finalized soon and
his artistic potential needs to resurge and take a place in a contemporary art and design
today.
FS: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or
lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?
TD: Riza Air chair and the next family products that we'll design are and will be edited and
produced for Thelos.
FS: What made you design this particular type of work?
TD: The particular type of work of Riza Air is its special lines of wood, likeness to tree roots and
the same time to the modern metallic chair lines, wanting to give a message about that we
can make products with natural raw materials and without fossil or chemical origins. The Riza
Air chair is only realized with sustainable solid wood and natural varnishes.
FS: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of
your work?
TD: We were inspired with all work of Catalan modernist architect Antoni Gaudí on his buildings and his little furniture collection.
FS: Who is the target customer for his design?
TD: Riza Air is a contemporary design chair suitable for lounge areas of clubs, private residences and hotels.
Salmerón, 68 1C 08222 Terrassa BARCELONA T.+34 931 759 037 info@thelos.cat www.thelos.cat
FS: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?
TD: Riza means roots of the trees and we choose this name to reference to the natural
movement of the roots in all directions and the chair structure asked going on any directions
to finish the aesthetical and stabilization functions.
FS: What is the most unique aspect of your design?
TD: Riza Air is made with a organic look structure complemented with a special grid on the
back and with only using solid wood.
FS: Thank you for providing us with this opportunity to interview you.
A' Design Award and Competitions grants rights to press members and bloggers to use parts
of this interview. This interview is provided as it is; DesignPRWire and A' Design Award and
Competitions cannot be held responsible for the answers given by participating designers.
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CONTACT
THELOS
Ph. +34 931.759.037
Cell. +34 661.231.901 (David Farell)
Salmerón, 68 1C
08222 Terrassa
BARCELONA
info@thelos.cat
david.farell@thelos.cat
www.thelos.cat
Salmerón, 68 1C 08222 Terrassa BARCELONA T.+34 931 759 037 info@thelos.cat www.thelos.cat