Axius

Source: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1811282608/functional-core-balance-and-mobility-training-syst/posts/1671520

Video: http://www.businessinsider.com/balance-platform-axius-workout-2016-8?IR=T&r=US&IR=T

 

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AXIUS addresses your body across three planes of motion: tilt, rotation and roll. It allows you to reduce or increase degrees of instability to create safe, controllable stages of progression for building core strength and functional stability. Through this type of instability and balance training, you will recruit deep core and stabilizing muscles, not activated through traditional movements. These are the muscles that will help you move better!

You will also heighten your kinesthetic awareness or the understanding of where your body exists in 3-dimensional space. With constant instability, AXIUS will heighten your proprioceptors as you build core strength while allowing you to accurately control your body in an unstable environment. This will help to improve your reaction time and your bodies responsiveness in any athletic movement.

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adjustable furniture

example 1

94814_2_800Stack Me Up' by Ho-Chieh Hsu Adjusts its Height With Books

 

example 2

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The notion of constructing a fort with sheets, chairs and boxes remains appealing to many people well into adulthood. Well, the concept isn’t totally inappropriate when considered in the context of the Soft Fold Cabane, designed explicitly for the enjoyment of people of all ages.

A simple wooden structure establishes the boundaries of what is essentially a room inside of a room. With three nearly full-height walls, this enchanting space can be tucked into any corner of your home to create a place of refuge. Inside the cozy sanctuary of the Soft Fold Cabane is a spongey bench, a slanted reading table, a lamp and a duvet, and all of the open framework walls can be closed off with the hanging of quilted curtains. Marie Dessuant and Margaux Keller have created a comfy and fantastical place to forget about the world within your own abode.

 

example 3

Pump Up the Space-Saving Eclosion by Olivier Gregoire 2 Pump Up the Space-Saving Eclosion by Olivier Gregoire

My comments&reflection on Fitness furniture collection

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my reflection & comments:

1.  mind consciousness

2.  simple aesthetics

3. visual and physical balance

4. sitting posture

 

 

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My reflection&comments:

  1. interesting product, the curve in the product assist people in doing crunches, as many beginners have difficulties in sit at there tail bone position.
  2.  the seat rise people higher, it avoid the awkwardness of exercising on the floor, in the office situation.

 

deskmate

My comments&reflection:

  1. Useful and direct design,  but the function is very limited to arm exercise.

 

exercise_furniture_katarina_belickova

My comments&reflection:

  1.  for gymnast mostly.
  2. elegant design
  3. duality of softness and hardness in terms of material

 

ongo-seat

My comments&reflection:

  1. dont really know how does this works.
  2. simple, cute design, can be put in any room.

 

sprang chair the sprang chair

My comments&reflection:

  1. very conviencing.
  2. but the whole structure looks overwhelming and dramatic, maynot be a good choice for every office.

 

zen-circus-chair

My comments&reflection:

  1. for yoga
  2. occupies little space

Tai Chi Chair Is A Dead Simple Exercise Chair

Tai Chi Chair Is A Dead Simple Exercise Chair

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Treadmill too big to install in your home office?  Here’s a space-efficient way to flex some muscles during 15-minute breaks: the Tai Chi Chair.

Designed by  ESAD Reims student Yuan Yuan, the furniture sports handholds and footholds that allow you to perform a variety of exercises.  I’m not too familiar with Tai Chi, though, so I don’t know about the name.  Isn’t that the thing they do in the park with no equipment whatsoever?

The Tai Chi Chair is a dead simple seating chattel, with a wooden plywood seat and a small bar of cushion for the back.  The rest of the chair consists of the metal frame, sections of which have been bent in various shapes for use in different gym-like exercises (some of which, by the way, look like a one-way ticket to a busted nose).

Hopefully, the furnishing comes with instructions, since most people will likely be stumped about what exercises to do on the thing.  Plus, it’s probably a bad idea to use this as your actual working chair, since that bottom is flat and that back looks similarly uncomfortable.  Best save this as a spare for the occasional guest.

Personally, I like the idea, but the furniture’s overall usability as an actual office chair will need to be addressed.  Fortunately, the Tai Chi Chair is only a first version prototype that was intended for a proposed event (that, from what I can gather, didn’t push through, either).

No, Sweat! Workspace Workout Furniture by Darryl Agawin

Category: DESIGN Published on 03 MAY, 2013

No, Sweat! by Vancouver-based designer Darryl Agawin is a 3-piece workspace furniture set that can transform into exercise furniture. In today’s busy lives it can be difficult to find the time for daily exercise. By combining workspace and workout furniture, it allows anyone to take a break from their busy work schedules and partake in regular daily exercise. This eye catching set of furniture serves to remind the user of the exercise capabilities of their furniture.

The exercises that No, Sweat! utilizes are based on pre-established and well known routines and styles. The basic forms that shaped No Sweat! were drawn from the exercise step, the balance board, the weight bar, theskip rope and the kettle bellHundreds of exercises can be extrapolated from these basic structures and equipment.

No, Sweat! can be used wherever desk work is done; from the company office to a studio apartment. This set is designed for everyone, as exercise is important for all ages. No, Sweat! benefits those interested in fitness, yet have not joined a public gym or unable to purchase dedicated home equipment due to a lack of space or finances.

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( this could totally be my fyp, lol)

 

FYP summary

 

This project aims to learn from traditional Chinese regimen such as Taiji or Hua Tuo Wu Qin Xi, in order to design a product or system that could improve people’s fitness level, facilitate indoor exercise, especially in small space since urban lifestyle in China does not provide enough time and space for people, and many people lack the knowledge and awareness in taking care of their own body. The project intends to take inspiration from Asian culture, especially Chinese roots and be contemporary and show personality

 

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Final catalogue entry- Chinoiserie wallpaper

The Chinese Bedroom; Chinese "factory" wallpaper depicting scenes from daily life.
The Chinese Bedroom; Chinese “factory” wallpaper depicting scenes from daily life.
Looking towards the fireplace in the Chinese Dressing Room at Saltram, Devon. The Chinese wallpaper is early eighteenth-century in the "Long Elizas" style with tall, elongated figures painted on mulberry paper.
Looking towards the fireplace in the Chinese Dressing Room at Saltram, Devon. The Chinese wallpaper is early eighteenth-century in the “Long Elizas” style with tall, elongated figures painted on mulberry paper.

Britain (ar.1760s)

 

Pictures depicting large emblematic male and female figures in garden settings used as wallpaper in the Chinese Dressing Room in Saltram Palace

 

Ink on mulberry paper

 

National Trust Inventory No. 872998

 

Exhibition: Chinoiserie Gallery 2015

 

Chinoiserie reflects fanciful European interpretations of Chinese styles that used for furniture, pottery, textiles, interiors and garden design. Since early 17th century, craftsman draw sources from decorative forms found on imported goods from China such as cabinets, porcelain vessels, and embroideries.

 

At the beginning of the 18th century, Chinese craftsman and workshops start to create hand-painted wallpapers that were specifically made for exportation to the European market, and by the early 19th century no European palace was complete without a Chinoiserie room. Some extraordinary examples can still be seen in the Brighton Pavilon, Saltram, Sans Souci, Chateau Chantilly and Nostell Priory. The example we using here is from the Chinese room of Saltram Palace, which is a dressing room.

 

Chinoiserie wallpaper was commonly used in bedroom, dressing room and drawing room. It seems to have been rare, at least in Britain, for Chinese wallpaper to be used in the ‘masculine’ or formal areas of a house. Distinct from the state apartments and great rooms associated with the male head of the household, ‘feminine’ areas such as bedrooms, dressing rooms and drawing rooms seem to have been poised between the private and the public sphere. From the early eighteenth century onwards there appears to have been a tendency to link orientalism, femininity and sociability, as women use their chinoiserie styled dressing room to host their social activities. Therefore, apart from being a personal taste, chinoiserie interior shows strong famine characteristics. As Elizabeth Montagu pointed out ‘I assure you the dressing room is now just the female of the great room, for sweet attractive grace, for winning softness, for le je ne sais quoi it is incomparable’

This wallpaper in the Chinese Dressing Room, painted on mulberry paper, is probably the oldest at Saltram, dating from the early eighteenth century, and depicts elegant people in a garden setting. Multiple copies of two Chinese hand-colored prints that have been hung in alternating pairs cover the Main wall of the room. The pictures are first printed on paper and then being colored by hand. The printing often extends beyond the outlines to include various other details. Repeated elements on some painted wallpapers suggests that they were produced by the meticulously tracing motifs from a common reference.

The most common procedure of hanging wallpaper was to stretch canvas or another open-weave fabric across the bare wall and nail it down onto wooden battens, then to size it and to cover it with a lining of individual sheets of European hand-made paper, and finally to attach the Chinese paper on top. If the drops did not quite cover the walls, the paper hangers would add border papers, unobtrusively insert sections of wallpaper taken from elsewhere or add new, extended skies. The greater width of Chinese wallpapers and the different reaction of Chinese paper to wallpaper paste presented additional challenges. In their advertisements paper hangers would therefore explicitly and proudly mention their ability to hang Chinese wallpaper.

In Figure 1,2,3, the skillful way in which the joins between the prints have been disguised, by cutting off the top margins around certain motifs and by the addition of certain cut-out motifs, suggests the involvement of a professional paper hanger.

Looking at the wallpaper, we realized that the painting is excitingly exotic, and yet it included elements that have been comfortingly familiar to the western eye. Chinese artists applied techniques and devices originally derived from western painting. During the late Ming and early Qing periods (roughly equivalent to the seventeenth century) some western illusionistic techniques like linear perspective, chiaroscuro and the depiction of interconnected spaces were introduced to China by Jesuit painters working at the imperial court and through the circulation of western prints. These techniques also appear in Chinese wallpaper or pictures used as wallpaper, especially in the depiction of volumetric shading in costumes and perspective and spatial recession in architecture.

 

Apart from the enduring popularity of these wallpapers, their physical survival is an equally astonishing phenomenon. Inevitably the papers have aged, not least as a result of use and imperfect environments. Typical deterioration and conservation challenges include delamination and staining of the paper, fading and localised flaking of certain pigments, inappropriate repairs and loss caused by the grazing of silverfish. However, the conservation of Chinese wallpapers in the west has developed considerably over the last few decades. By the early 1960s the wallpaper had become detached from the wall in places, and conservation treatment (including relining) was carried out by C.P. Sharpe of London in 1962.The scheme was removed from the walls, treated and relined by Merryl Huxtable and Pauline Webber in 1987, in conjunction with G. Jackson and Sons.

 

Bibliography:

 

  1. http://global.britannica.com/art/chinoiserie

 

  1. ISBN 978-0-7078-0428-6
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  2. To cite this article: Vanessa Alayrac‐Fielding (2009) ‘Frailty, thy name is China’: women, chinoiserie and the threat of low culture in eighteenth‐century England, Women’s History Review, 18:4, 659-668, DOI: 10.1080/09612020903112398 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09612020903112398