Khayyam
Lounge Chair for Behman Design
Khayyam lounge chair is a design effort to put back the utility in using recycled hand-woven rugs by employing the unique qualities of them, namely the strength and weight-bearing versus body shape conformity. This all made possible by a designed structure inspired by late Iranian modernist architect's work ,Hooshang Seyhoun, for the mausoleum of Omar Khayyam, the medeival Iranian polymath. The lounge chair uses incline arches of Seyhoun's work with detachable brackets, creating a Baltic birch plywood seating loom for attaching the carpet and meanwhile making a flat-pack design.
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Khayyam in your language: we provide project translations across multiple languages: Lounge Stoel FY, Isitulo Segumbi Lokuphumla XH, לאַונדזש שטול YI, Alaga Rọgbọkú YO, Isihlalo Sokuphumula ZU, Lounge Chair EN, Sitkamerstoel AF, Kolltuku I Pritjes SQ, ላውንጅ ወንበር AM, كرسي الصالة AR, Լաունջաթոռը HY, Şezlong AZ, Egongela-Aulkia EU, Крэсла BE, লাউঞ্জ চেয়ার BN, Ležaljka BS, Шезлонг BG, Lounge Chair MY, La Cadira CA, Lounge Chair CEB, Mpando Wochezera NY, 躺椅 ZY, 躺椅 ZH, Lounge Chair CO, Ležaljka HR, Křeslo CS, Lænestol DA, Lounge Stoel NL, Lounge Seĝo EO, Lamamistool ET, Lepotuoli FI, Chaise Longue FR, Cathair Seòmar-Suidhe GD, Cadeira De Descanso GL, დასასვენებელი სკამი KA, Loungesessel DE, Η Πολυθρόνα EL, લાઉન્જ ખુરશી GU, Chèz Sal HT, Kujerar Falo HA, Noho Hoʻomaha HAW, כיסא נוח HE, लाउंज कुर्सी HI, Lub Rooj Zaum HMN, Nyugágy HU, Setustóll IS, Oche Ezumike IG, Kursi Santai ID, Cathaoir Lounge GA, Poltrona IT, ラウンジチェア JA, Kursi Santai JV, ಲೌಂಜ್ ಕುರ್ಚಿ KN, Шезлонг KK, កៅអីអង្គុយ KM, Intebe RW, 라운지 의자 KO, Kursiya Salonê KU, Отургуч KY, ເກົ້າອີ້ Lounge LO, Sella Porticus Supellex LA, Atpūtas Krēsls LV, Poilsio Kėdė LT, Lounge Stull LB, Лежалка MK, Ny Seza Seza MG, Kerusi Rehat MS, ലോഞ്ച് ചെയർ ML, Siġġu Tas-Sala MT, Te Tuuru Moenga MI, आरामखुर्ची MR, Амралтын Сандал MN, लाउन्ज कुर्सी NE, Lounge Stol NO, ଲାଉଞ୍ଜ ଚେୟାର OR, د لونګ څوکۍ PS, صندلی استراحت FA, Fotel PL, Poltrona PT, ਲੌਂਜ ਕੁਰਸੀ PA, Șezlongul RO, Кресло RU, Nofoa Malolo SM, Лежаљка SR, Lounge Chair SN, لائونج ڪرسي SD, විවේකාගාරයේ පුටුව SI, Ležadlo SK, Ležalnik SL, Kursiga Fadhiga SO, Setulo Sa Phomolo ST, Sillón ES, Korsi Lounge SU, Kiti Cha Mapumziko SW, Vilstol SV, Ang Lounge Chair TL, Курсӣ TG, லவுஞ்ச் நாற்காலி TA, Зал Кресло TT, లాంజ్ కుర్చీ TE, เก้าอี้เลานจ์ TH, Şezlong TR, Zal TK, Крісло UK, لاؤنج کرسی UR, زال ئورۇندۇق UG, Kreslo UZ, Ghế Phòng Chờ VI, Cadair Lolfa CY.
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Unique Properties
For many centuries, carpets and rugs has been used as floor insulator that keeps the ambient temperature of a room regulated by not allowing any heat transfer to the ground and vice versa, while serving as a secondary function of decorative element. But, in modern times, the utilitarian functionality of a carpet has lost its stance to more modern building materials and insulation, making it only a decorative item. The inherent handmade fabrication method makes carpet weaving extremely labor-intensive and daunting to such extent that makes it economically unavailable for middle-class households. This and the very change of the tastes, made carpet weaving struggling as a handcraft industry in Iran. While not more than fifty years ago nearly every other household in rural communities had a carpet weaving loom that plays the essential role in community's economy and self-sufficiency, there are dwindling number of centers still active in this business nowadays. This project is willing to revive the value of this handcraft industry and makes it find its new stance; not perhaps only for decorative purposes, but the one that serves a real function; and that is achieved by unique weight bearing property of carpet that is rediscovered and elaborated in this design. Rugs still are considered soft goods, but just like a hammock can withstand the weight of an adult 95 percentile very easily if chosen properly. Specifically the carpets woven with two threads in each row, like Sarab, Tabriz, Hamadan, Zanjan, etc., are more suitable and stronger for this purpose.
Tags
birch plywood, upcycling, hand-woven rug, flat-pack design, DIY assembly
Production Technology
The frame is cut by a CNC router from a 1220*2440 mm international standard 18 mm baltic birch plywood. Various digital joinery techniques including mortise and tenon, half-lap joint and screw and insert nut fasteners is used to create glue free structure that could be easily stored. The seating surface is made by reused carpets, hand-woven rugs, that are cut with an specific template, stitched and woven to the frame.
Design Challenge
This project started as a tribute to medieval Iranian polymath and poet Omar Khayyam. The most difficult part was to find a tangible source of inspiration that both symbolizes the thoughts and life of this figure while creating a quintessentially modern Iranian design that echoes the glory of the past in present time. While shaping the structure handily utilized the work of Hooshang Seyhoun in Khayyam’s mausoleum, the challenge was to finding out a method that uses wood joinery techniques to replicate the general feeling of an architectural monument and achieve this by cutting the medium only in two dimensions for more economic viability and reduce machining time. While structure itself creates its own challenges for a dynamic loading scenarios of a seating persons with the maximum weight of 130 kilos, finding out the right rug and weaving technique required extensive on/the field research that took the design team to the deep guts of rural Iran and inquiring about weaving methods of yesteryear and their properties.
Project Duration
The project started in June 2017 in Tehran and finalized in November 2017 after a number of iterations. Three series of nuts have been tested on various types of rugs to choose the best combination for frame attachment. Technique with a strongest final result to be chosen.
Operation Flow
The product comes with an already attached carpet fitted in a square box, once unpacked the four arches are interlocked to each other on specified mortise and tenon and edge half-lap joint and reinforce with right angled gussets that are fastened with socket screws and insert nuts. The half assembled frame is turned upside down and the base ring and accompanying wedge gussets are inserted in specified grooves and secured with long countersunk socket screws that are fastened to the wood insert nuts.
Research
As the main challenge for this design was to determine how strong the Carpet fabric should be to withstand the dynamic loading of the 95th percentile users, an extensive search among the strongest known designs from all corners of the Iranian carpet weaving centers has been conducted and since one of the team members has a family heritage of carpet weaving in Tabriz, the inherited know-how has been put to best use in determining the best quality-strength for the chosen carpets. On the other hand since the rugs were to be attached using strands of hand woven cotton threads, variety of knots and thread weaving techniques is tested to determine the best combination of them for the strongest results. In the wake of the conducted research, finally it is concluded that the carpets using double weft cross threads with wool yarns knotted on twisted longitudinal threads are the strongest carpets that can easily withstand the weights in excess of 180 Kg.
Inspiration
The frame design is essentially deconstruction and reconstruction of a famous Iranian architects work: Hooshang Seyhoun, for the mausoleum of Omar Khayyam;The medieval Persian mathematician, astronomer and poet. Seyhoun used quadratic arches with a ten degree tilt from perpendicular angle and repeated it ten times around an axis, thus creating an intricate structure of crisscrossing arches had been created. Similarly the same replication of quadratic arcs has been envisaged with Khayyam's quartains in mind as the source of inspiration. Each two pairs are angled to create seating and backrest structure while still being interconnected. "Khayyam" literally means tent maker, which was the profession of his forefathers. This is hinted by tent like shape created by crossing structures and echoed by the very fact that the seating surface is attached essentially using tent fabric fixing methods. Other elements of Iranian architecture has found their ways in various parts of the structure as reinforcement, although in simplified format namely the shape of the gussets are using design cues of a structural element called Muqarnass which divide the force and the weight of an arch between two pillars or adjacent Moqarnass.
Project Overview
Khayyam Lounge Chair has been a Bronze winner in the Furniture Design award category in the year 2019 organized by the prestigious A' Design Award & Competition. The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
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Bronze Recognition
Fater Saadat Niaki was recognized with the coveted Bronze A' Design Award in 2020, a testament to excellence of their work Khayyam Lounge Chair.
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Reviving Tradition: Khayyam Lounge Chair by Fater Saadat Niaki
Reviving the ancient art of carpet weaving with a modern twist, Fater Saadat Niaki introduces the Khayyam Lounge Chair, a fusion of tradition and innovation, inspired by the works of Hooshang Seyhoun, the famous Iranian architect.
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