Designer: Wang Shumao
Year: 2017
Material: blood sandalwood/lobular red sandalwood/big red acid branch, rattan
Size: length 650 x width 470 x high 730 mm

Although the appearance of furniture is constantly changing, reflecting the aesthetic pursuit of people in each period, in the final analysis, as a daily necessities, the pursuit of functionality in furniture design also reflects the great differences between the East and the West from living habits to cultural spirit.

Chinese furniture pays attention to "the sky is round and the place is round". The armchair circle is round and the sitting surface is square. The designer combines his research on Nordic furniture with his understanding of traditional Chinese furniture and designs a crescent chair.

In the design, the crescent chair breaks the square and regular shape of the traditional circle chair. Combined with ergonomics, it is appropriately reduced according to the proportion of the traditional circle chair. The back plate is removed on the basis of the traditional circle chair, and the chair ring is polished into a multi-dimensional arc surface, so that the contact area between the chair ring and the back is larger and more closely fits the back curve.

The two-dimensional curve of the sitting surface is more ergonomic. The round chair ring and the armrest are integrated, and the line and surface are interspersed to form a sculptural body language. On the premise of satisfying the practical function, it also has the aesthetic feeling of form. The seat plate is tilted back 2cm, and the base is replaced with traditional intangible cultural heritage handmade rattan, soft and comfortable.

The crescent chair is made of sandalwood with high hardness. On the premise of ensuring the stability of the chair's stress structure, the designer presents the leg structure of the chair as fine as possible, making the whole chair more bony and ethereal.

Wang Shumao, a new designer and curator after 90 s.

The founder of Femo Design Studio, who studied under Professor Yu Lizhan of the Furniture Research Institute of Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts and Lu Zhirong, an internationally renowned Chinese designer, has a personal collection of thousands of original designs and is well versed in modern design aesthetics and production techniques. During his college years, his academic performance and comprehensive grade points were both the first grade in the college. He has won the National Scholarship of the Ministry of Education of China and the First Class Scholarship for 12 times, there are more than 130 professional competitions such as Germany IF Design Award, Taiwan Gold Point Award, China Design Intelligent Manufacturing Award, Display China Crystal Kirin Award Silver Award, China Red Star Award Future Star Award (two in the country), AD Andi magazine 2020 China Design New Star, etc. His works have participated in Milan Furniture Fair in Italy, Stockholm Furniture Fair in Sweden, Design Shanghai, Design Spring and other exhibitions for more than 40 times.

As the chief curator of "D2M Lab Design Sample" of China Family Fair, Xiamen International Stone Fair‍The chief curator of the theme exhibition "Infinite X Design New Stone" and the curator of the furniture section of the Urban Design Week.

He served as the vice chairman of the Interior Design Committee of the China Construction Association, a member of the Design Working Committee of the China Furniture Association, an executive director of the Homestay Industry Branch of the China Architectural Culture Research Association, and a special contributor to the design column of Nanfang Daily.

Femo Design Studio, headquartered in Shenzhen, China, is a research studio based on diversified design and has become one of the most well-known furniture design studios in China. Based on its rich collection and international vision, the studio has its own unique views on the proportion, details and structure of products. At present, it mainly provides innovative design of furniture, lamps and various daily necessities for domestic and foreign brand companies, as well as curating exhibitions and providing design planning services for brands.

Femo Design Studio is committed to exploring the design feasibility of new materials and carrying out long-term conceptual design projects. At the same time, the studio has more than 2000 original design collection products, and the number is still increasing. It is committed to becoming the most abundant design organization in China's original household product design collection system.

Femo Design Studio has always insisted on supporting and promoting the original design. Our goal is to collect tens of thousands of original designs and establish our own private design museum in China.

Studio website: https://www.femo-design.com