Spring Multifunctional Chair

Navid Ghandili's Spring Multifunctional Chair operates within a rich symbolic vocabulary that invites layered interpretation through the lens of material culture and archetypal form language. The cylinder as primary geometric generator carries profound cultural resonance, appearing across traditions as symbol of cosmic axis, the column connecting earth and heaven, and the drum as container of sound and spiritual energy. The stacking principle amplifies this vertical aspiration while suggesting growth through accumulation, each drum building upon its predecessor like seasonal rings marking a tree's patient expansion. The choice of natural oak, with its warm honey tonalities and visible grain patterns, invokes the archetypal significance of wood as living material that maintains connection to organic origins even in fabricated form, suggesting continuity between nature and human making. The name Spring itself embeds seasonal symbolism of renewal, emergence, and awakening potential within the design's identity, positioning the furniture as participant in cyclical rhythms of dormancy and flourishing. The circular form vocabulary, echoing in the background artwork's tondo format, evokes wholeness and completion while the spherical bonsai-like floral arrangement introduces the East Asian contemplative tradition of cultivated nature as philosophical practice. The honeycomb patterning visible in the decorative artwork resonates with the furniture's material warmth while suggesting industry, community, and the sweetness of domestic harmony. Color functions symbolically throughout, the cream and ivory wrapping suggesting purity, calm, and the blank page awaiting inscription of daily life, while the gold and amber wood tones carry solar associations of warmth, vitality, and sustaining energy. The curved cutaway revealing cushioned seating operates as threshold symbol, the aperture inviting passage from standing to rest, from activity to contemplation. The live-edge treatment preserves the tree's original boundary, honoring material memory within geometric refinement, suggesting that function need not erase origin.

The design of this chair is inspired by a flower bud. It opens like a blossom and it will be reminiscent of spring. In this design, three functions have been tried to fit in one furniture in addition to being economical, it can take up less space. The technology used in this design is the use of five aluminum springs that hold it by the clamp lever. It is made by gluing wooden layers on top of each other and cutting them in a circle, which is finally covered with oak wood veneer in two colors, natural and white.