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Spinning Innovation: Spin Wins 2024 Golden Pin Design Award

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Spinning Innovation: Spin Wins 2024 Golden Pin Design Award

In a prestigious recognition of innovation and craftsmanship, the Spin Easy Chair by industrial designer Kenneth Cobonpue has been awarded the 2024 Golden Pin Design Award. This accolade highlights the chair's standout position in global contemporary design, celebrated for blending artistic vision with advanced materials. Established by the Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI), the Golden Pin Design Award honors products that demonstrate exceptional creativity, functionality, and sustainability.The Spin Easy Chair earned this distinction for several key reasons, beginning with its innovative use of carbon fiber-a material celebrated for its exceptional strength-to-weight ratio. This choice enables the chair to be both lightweight and durable, offering a unique blend of comfort and structural integrity that elevates everyday functionality. The Spin's radial design evokes a sense of movement and energy, while the intricate yet minimalist form captures the essence of dynamic motion, all within a sleek, modern silhouette. Its complex, curved structure is a testament to expert material manipulation, with seamless lines and organic shapes meticulously executed to balance delicate appearance with robust functionality. Its sustainability-conscious design also contributed to its award recognition. The use of carbon reduces material waste, making it a sustainable choice in today's design landscape.

November 22, 2024

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Kenneth Cobonpue's New Creative Spin

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Kenneth Cobonpue's New Creative Spin

Like a huge Spirograph, the never-ending lines of this carbon fiber wonder is a hypnotic beauty. KENNETH COBONPUE continues to evolve; experimenting and exploring with different materials before creating a single piece. We believe that design is a living process, forever transforming in response to the changing world.“I love innovating and working with different materials. I design things that can only be made with a high-level of craftsmanship. What I do is always fresh and new, I get inspired and excited to apply all these new methodologies in the production process,” says Kenneth Cobonpue.He envisioned the creation of the “Spin” collection to be unparalleled in its lightness, durability and comfort. Made with the use of carbon fiber, one of the strongest and lightest materials on earth, his fresh collection is a product of his ingenious creative process. “In our workshop, high tech materials and old world craftsmanship meet.”Expert hands lay carbon filaments along a mold with diamond and scallop patterns, in a seemingly never-ending radial pattern—lightweight and delicate; yet deceptively sturdy. Its cyclical curved lines are reminiscent of a Spirograph’s roulette of curves moving towards the center then bouncing back in circular motions, creating dynamic forms of a hypnotic wonder. The “Spin” collection is available in two designs: the side chair and easychair. Each piece elegantly complements both indoor and outdoor spaces. Lay back in comfort as you sit on its soft seat pad that comes in fabrics Black & White Print, Italvelluti Bitwin Black, and Canvas Raven Black. Our “Spin” chairs—a perfect blend of beauty, lightness, and strength.
October 11, 2023