Yılmaz Dogan
Turkey
Yılmaz Doğan who has been involved in manufacturing furniture since his childhood states that the relationship between the place and the furniture channels him to question the form, shape and function of each object. This journey has made him committed to designing and structures with passion. He expresses that the biggest obstacle for designing is the structure and that he studied civil engineering to push that to its limits. Doğan, who combines the engineering discipline with designing, continues to work as the Head Designer in QZENS Furniture & Design of which he became a founding partner in 2008. QZENS Furniture & Design operates in England and Turkey. Doğan, who has received various awards, continues his works focused on “ Inclusive Design” in addition to his works in designing furniture and lighting. Access Yılmaz Dogan Newsroom
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Yılmaz Dogan
Lighting
Believing that it is possible to grow and differentiate organic forms in nature without disturbing their structure and expression by coincidences, and that human beings have an instinctive affinity for natural forms, Yılmaz Dogan said that while designing Thorn, he wanted to reflect growth with forms that emulate nature without any dimension limitation in illumination. Thorn, which is a source of inspiration for a natural branch of Thorn; grows in a random structure and forms natural, meets different needs and has no size limit as a good lighting design.
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Table
Yılmaz Dogan, who started out with the idea that different industrial materials could be used together on a table tray, said that he designed a flexibility in your desk that you can make changes to adapt to different trends at any time. With its completely breakable design, Patchwork is a dynamic design that can easily adapt to different spaces as dining and meeting tables.
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Coffee Table
The middle tables that used usually take place in the middle of the spaces and cause difficulty with the approach problems. For this reason, the service tables are used to open this gap. In order to solve this problem, Yılmaz Dogan has combined two functions in the design of Ripple and developed a dynamic product design which can be both a middle stand and a service table, which travels with an asymmetric arm and moves in the distance. This dynamic motion coincided with Ripple's fluid design lines reflecting from nature with the variability of a drop and the waves formed by that drop.
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Yılmaz Dogan
Table
Yılmaz Dogan, who thinks that the traces and shapes arising from the ethnical cultures and their philosophies are a rich treasure that opens the door to new adventures for a designer; He designed Sufi after his researches on Mevlevi, which blends purity, love and humanism with simplicity and is the product of a 750-year-old culture. Inspired by the “Tennure” dress that the Mevlevi dervishes wore at ceremonies, the Sufi Table is a dynamic design that can serve at different heights. The Sufi can turn into a service and display unit or a meeting table while it is a dining table.
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