Papers by Regina Raycheva
Bulletin of the "Transilvania" University of Braşov. Series II, Forestry, Wood Industry, Agricultural Food Engineering, Jun 25, 2024
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LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing eBooks, Feb 5, 2020
The present book is targeted to all that are interested in Furniture Design and its last tendenci... more The present book is targeted to all that are interested in Furniture Design and its last tendencies. It is an attempt to demonstrate the focus of modern design toward textile techniques: weaving and knitting. Although they are used in another area of life, they offer new form-building possibilities and constitute a creative trend with a perspective. The book looks at different techniques; it provides an overview of materials for these techniques, as well as a historical survey of wicker furniture. The authors, impressed by the great variety of examples, selected a number of the best pieces and studied them in an attempt to classify the application of weaving and knitting in different furniture types, their functions, qualities and new structural solutions. It is their hope that in this way, the inspired experimental work of both established design creators and young professionals is going to be better known to a wider public.
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Pro Ligno, 2015
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Pro Ligno, 2015
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Rīgas Tehniskās universitātes zinātniskie raksti, Dec 1, 2015
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European Journal of Engineering Education, Oct 7, 2016
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Innovation in Woodworking Industry and Engineering Design, 2017
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The paper presents the results of studies and research aimed at identifying significant concepts ... more The paper presents the results of studies and research aimed at identifying significant concepts of the design process dynamics of two European designers, Gió Ponti (Italy) and Hans Wegner (Denmark). Two of their major chair designs, the Wishbone Chair (Wegner, 1944-49) and the Superleggera Chair (Ponti, 1951-57) were chosen as study cases. Their historical concept sources were carefully investigated and documented, since in the postwar years a tendency towards disregarding the dogmatic functionality of the interwar avant-garde furniture design occurred, making place for a different kind of innovation that did not contradict the natural evolution of form and function, but introduced an inherent elegance of form, as well as exceptional craftsmanship seen as adding value to the industrial production. Formal, compositional, structural and ergonomic elements were analysed, measurements of dimensions and angles were made and compared, sitting positions were visualised, in an attempt to u...
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The paper introduces a historically established wooden structure, used in dwelling houses buildin... more The paper introduces a historically established wooden structure, used in dwelling houses building in Bulgarian Lands in the Revival Period (end of 18th C – second half of 19th C). Features that exemplify structural peculiarities of 19th C dwelling houses in rural and urban conditions are considered. These buildings, studied in the 20 C by authors in order to preserve the knowledge of the patrimony of Bulgarian national architecture and construction, represent the works of an art that has been totally supplanted by different building techniques today. It has remained as vernacular heritage to be conserved and seen as national identity. In the paper, different vernacular regions in Bulgaria, in France and Turkey were considered in order to give an idea of structural diversity. The paper introduces comparisons with wooden structures in the above mentioned countries in order to reveal the differences and establish general features in the studied regions. General house architecture, fun...
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The paper researches wicker furniture design in an attempt to analyse the existing materials, tec... more The paper researches wicker furniture design in an attempt to analyse the existing materials, techniques, tradition in basket-weaving and furniture-weaving. This leads us to research into the potential of wicker in form-building and provides an explanation of modern designers' interest of in this material and technique. The analysis is aiming at revealing the bi-fold role of the weaving technique both as a surface-covering and as a structural building material. In this way, the shift from the simple use of weaving as caning, to structural building of objects, is outlined. The authors attempt a morphologic analysis of woven furniture examples, structural classification according to types and kinds of materials used; this is done by case-studies of 20 examples, selected for their interest and archetypal view, as well as their noted authors. In this way, we can give an answer to the question: Is woven furniture strictly kept into the realm of outdoor and hotel use, or can it 'r...
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The present book is targeted to all that are interested in Furniture Design and its last tendenci... more The present book is targeted to all that are interested in Furniture Design and its last tendencies. It is an attempt to demonstrate the focus of modern design toward textile techniques: weaving and knitting. Although they are used in another area of life, they offer new form-building possibilities and constitute a creative trend with a perspective. The book looks at different techniques; it provides an overview of materials for these techniques, as well as a historical survey of wicker furniture. The authors, impressed by the great variety of examples, selected a number of the best pieces and studied them in an attempt to classify the application of weaving and knitting in different furniture types, their functions, qualities and new structural solutions. It is their hope that in this way, the inspired experimental work of both established design creators and young professionals is going to be better known to a wider public.
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Have you ever asked yourself where did all those objects that surround us come from? Who created ... more Have you ever asked yourself where did all those objects that surround us come from? Who created them? How did the comfortable armchairs appear, the ones we sit in while watching TV? The working chair we use in order to write on our computer? Do you know that there was a time, when people did not know what a chair was, and hardly sat on anything at all...? After long years of teaching and researching, the author of this book has found that furniture pieces undergo an evolution, much like living creatures... After its appearance, an archetype passes through different stages, changes materials, construction and technology to come to us in the shape we consider to be comfortable and reasonable. Designers today are very much like archeologists: they create their objects after having made a great discovery. It can be an ordinary ancient object, forgotten today, but important for a creative person as an inspiration and an opportunity for individual expression. This book is written for all...
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The paper presents a study of the role of craft tradition as opposed to technology and abstract a... more The paper presents a study of the role of craft tradition as opposed to technology and abstract art, for the evolution of modern design for serial production. The first half of the 20 C witnessed the exploration of different sources, with the aim to create the formal language of post-war material world: traditional craft of different regions; ‘royal’ styles of the past; avant-garde art (organic sculpture, abstract art, etc.); and the potential of technology. These directions of research resulted in differentart, etc.); and the potential of technology. These directions of research resulted in different evolution lines, among them technologically-driven design of Aalto, Jacobsen, Eames; Scandinavian individualized remakes of traditional regional pieces; the study & modification of diverse functional typology (deck-chairs, traveller’s and military furniture, director’s chairs, etc.). In the search for modern form, designers found inspiration in the past (study of archetypes) or in the ...
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European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
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Architecture and Urban Planning, 2015
The paper considers the interior and furnishing of a Revival Bulgarian house built in 1863. The a... more The paper considers the interior and furnishing of a Revival Bulgarian house built in 1863. The aim of this paper is to present the architecture and to give a closer overview of a part of the furniture collection belonging to this house: the French Empire style furniture set in the South East drawing room of the upper floor. The aim is to perform the analysis of stylistic features as well as to make a hypothesis concerning the cabinet maker.
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