MAD Architects has revealed its new design for a Milano-based furniture design company Sawaya & Moroni, the armchair was presented during Milan Design Week for the first time. 

Called "Gu" Chair, MAD's design reinterprets the traditional wooden armchair with fluid form, featuring curved and smooth edges shaped around circular window.

Taking cues from skeletal structures (“gu” translates to “bones” in Chinese), the design’s joints create a network of sinuous forms – similar to that of connective fibrous tissue. 

Each surface of the chair fuses into one another, forming elegant seams that mutate from something natural into something more futuristic, making it seem more like a growing organism than a chair. 

The strong directionality of the chair’s heavy wood grain follows its smooth curves, further emphasizing its sculptural and organic silhouette that forms the most original contours of the human body.

The chairs are produced in multiple colours and only their sizes and general shapes are kept the same. MAD Architects recently unveiled design for a new lighting object for Artemide, which is transformed from MAD's Pingtan Art Museum vision into a small-scaled lighting lamp.

Project facts

Project name: "Gu" Chair
Location: Milan, Italy
Architect: MAD X Sawaya & Moroni
Date: 2018
Time: 2018/4/17-22
Location: Via Alessandro Manzoni, 11, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
Design Team: Ma Yansong, Dang Qun, Yosuke Hayano, Andrea D'Antrassi, Casey Kell, Matthew Pugh

All images courtesy of Sawaya & Moroni & MAD Architects

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