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Octa Collection for Diploma in Design (Furniture and Spatial)
Lua Boon Kai

ESR Reit

Prototypes + Board

3 x A2 boards
Stool: 950 x 450 x 470mm
Table: 600 x 600 x 350 mm

Student Bio Project Description

Lua Boon Kai is a Furniture and Spatial Designer. He likes This is a collaboration with ESR Reit and Nanyang Academy

to design furniture that visually employs radius and curves. of Fine Arts where I designed the North and South lobby

He loves to use metal as the material for his designs. He is furniture which is located at Changi Business Park.

a candidate of the NAFA Talent Development Programme

2019 and the Top 10 winner of the IKEA Young Designer Octa is designed for various uses in different areas and

Awards 2018. He has participated in different competitions events by changing the furniture layout. The shape of the

and events since Year 1 of his studies, and was involved bench gives more possibilities to planning and permutations.

in designing Chinatown Mid-Autumn Light Festival 2018 The ESR Logo is one of the elements which inspired me.

& 2019. He had a light exhibition during the Night Festival From the top view of the bench, we can see the branding

which was designed for A*STAR, and was involved in logo. For the Octa furniture series, I used metal for all the

Furniture Origin designing furniture for a company called furniture. Metal is one of the sustainable materials which can

“Hawaiithai”. He had met and worked with different young be recycled and reused. Using metal also creates a better

designers around the world during the AIDA workshop visual for the lobby and it is more durable as well.

which was held in Cebu, Philipines.

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