擁有生命的藍(lán)鉆陶瓷：勞芬2015年新品發(fā)布會(huì)專訪

　　【MV】Because the product pipeline is always very long, we have a strategy for the next 4 years usually, and the pipeline was a little bit full. But we wanted to work together, and we found one project. It was clear that we want to do it, we went through the process quickly and it was very very fast with Toan. He is amazing to work with, because a lot of intelligent in the process and in the product. And it was even a complicated product. It was a urinal. But it proofed that the capacity and opportunity to work together and from that it was clear that we want to go into a long term relationship. Not only love in the first sight but to profit from each other’s knowledge because especially ceramics you need to know really a lot. And it would be a pity to learn it for one project and then not explore further. While the second project it’s clear about exploring further, much more, because we have the new material the SaphirKeramik which we don’t know yet where the limits are where the boundaries are. The whole idea of this project was to work with Toan to explore new limits new boundaries with this new material SaphirKeramik.

　　【MV】因?yàn)槲覀兊漠a(chǎn)品研發(fā)一直是非常長(zhǎng)期的，我們有對(duì)未來(lái)四年的戰(zhàn)略計(jì)劃，而我們的產(chǎn)品線已經(jīng)有些負(fù)荷過(guò)滿。但是我們很想一起共事，所以我們找到了這么一個(gè)雙方都很看好的項(xiàng)目，我們和Toan非�？斓淖咄炅讼嚓P(guān)流程。他是一個(gè)非常令人贊嘆的合作伙伴，為我們的流程和產(chǎn)品都帶來(lái)了很多智慧。而且這次合作還是設(shè)計(jì)一款很復(fù)雜的產(chǎn)品，是一款小便器。通過(guò)這個(gè)項(xiàng)目雙方證明了可以一起工作的能力和難得的機(jī)遇，當(dāng)時(shí)我們就很堅(jiān)信我們彼此希望達(dá)成長(zhǎng)期的合作了。不僅是短暫的“看對(duì)眼”，而是可以長(zhǎng)期從雙方的學(xué)識(shí)智慧中得益。因?yàn)閷?duì)于陶瓷這種特殊材料來(lái)說(shuō)，人們需要學(xué)習(xí)很多知識(shí)。而如果只是為了一個(gè)項(xiàng)目學(xué)習(xí)了一些特性而沒(méi)有繼續(xù)深究下去就太可惜了。所以我們第二個(gè)合作的項(xiàng)目基調(diào)就是為了深入研究。這次我們有了個(gè)新型陶瓷材料“藍(lán)鉆陶瓷”，這個(gè)陶瓷如此之新，我們自己都不知道它的局限和邊界在哪里。所以這個(gè)項(xiàng)目的主旨就是和Toan一起去探尋新型材料藍(lán)鉆陶瓷的新邊界，并打破新的局限。

　　【J】What about Mr. Nguyen, what’s your feeling about this collaboration?

　　【J】對(duì)于Nguyen先生來(lái)說(shuō)呢?這次合作感覺(jué)如何?

　　【TN】I would say great because we started very quickly as Marc said. The first project I was involved was not typical because it was a urinal so it was a contract product but at the same time I think it was really interesting because it’s a product that-maybe there’s not so much attention in designing, because it’s for a lot of contract projects. It was a challenge I wanted to do something that could be interesting, newer and user-friendly. It was my approach. And we did this project very quickly. The first idea I think was fine and Laufen proceed it so we went very directly to the process of industrialisation, prototyping and so on, and I think the result was pretty good. And it got us a Red Dot Award. I think the product started from a very typical contract product to also there was a lot of highlights in the product and I think it was welcome by both, by the professionals and by the press as well. So obviously it was very exiting for me also to do another project to touch all field in the bathroom. So SaphirKeramik was a great opportunity to do this, because the material was new. Fortunately there was not so much of opportunities like this. You have a new project started with a new material, you don’t know exactly the limit, so there is a challenge and this is what’s excited for me the most, not so much to make a new shape for washbasin. It was a new approach we approach the project with also the process. I tried really to enter into the process and understand what’s clever to do in SaphirKeramik, and not try to do something which is born for resin or other material. The idea of the project, it’s really born for SaphirKeramik, reach its specificity, which is sharp, tight, resistant, it’s very thin. But at the same time still ceramic. So you have-as Marc said before-you really have to understand how ceramic works because ceramic is not like doing an injection mold in plastic where you have a shape and you just need to understand how to make the mold and that’s it. But ceramic, the material is almost alive, there’s a huge process of molding, drying, glazing, firing. Until it’s not completed, all these process are not finished, you will never know what you will get.

　　【TN】我會(huì)說(shuō)這是一次很棒的體驗(yàn)，因?yàn)槿鏜arc所說(shuō)非常迅速的就開(kāi)始合作了。我所參與的第一個(gè)項(xiàng)目不是一個(gè)尋常的項(xiàng)目，因?yàn)檫@是一個(gè)小便器，所以雖然這是一個(gè)合同產(chǎn)品，但同時(shí)我覺(jué)得是一個(gè)很有趣的產(chǎn)品，因?yàn)檫@是一個(gè)不大引起設(shè)計(jì)界關(guān)注的產(chǎn)品，因?yàn)橐话銇?lái)說(shuō)都是作為廠商合同產(chǎn)品來(lái)設(shè)計(jì)的。這個(gè)項(xiàng)目對(duì)于我來(lái)說(shuō)是個(gè)挑戰(zhàn)，我希望能做些有趣的、新的，以及試用體驗(yàn)很友好的設(shè)計(jì)。我們非常快的完成了這個(gè)項(xiàng)目，我第一次演示的方案勞芬就通過(guò)了，所以我們直接進(jìn)入了生產(chǎn)環(huán)節(jié)、做樣品等等，我認(rèn)為最終這個(gè)設(shè)計(jì)的效果也是不錯(cuò)的。它為我們帶來(lái)了一個(gè)紅點(diǎn)獎(jiǎng)。我認(rèn)為這個(gè)產(chǎn)品從一個(gè)很常見(jiàn)的合同產(chǎn)品，最終成為了一個(gè)具有很多亮點(diǎn)的產(chǎn)品，受到了專業(yè)人士以及媒體的贊賞。所以顯而易見(jiàn)的，我很高興能再次參與又一個(gè)項(xiàng)目，來(lái)接觸衛(wèi)浴產(chǎn)品的其他領(lǐng)域。我是幸運(yùn)的，因?yàn)檫@樣的機(jī)會(huì)不多。你能有一個(gè)全新的材料且據(jù)此啟動(dòng)一個(gè)全新的項(xiàng)目，你不知道會(huì)有哪些限制，這樣是非常具有挑戰(zhàn)性的，這對(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō)比設(shè)計(jì)一個(gè)洗臉盆的新造型要有趣得多了。因?yàn)橛辛诵虏牧希�我們的生產(chǎn)工藝也有很大改變，我嘗試著真的沉浸在制造過(guò)程中并且理解對(duì)藍(lán)鉆陶瓷這種材料來(lái)說(shuō)，什么是該做的，什么是更符合傳統(tǒng)樹(shù)脂基陶瓷材料而不應(yīng)該用在這個(gè)新材料上的。于是我的設(shè)計(jì)就真正的專門(mén)為藍(lán)鉆陶瓷而生，符合它的材料特性，利落，緊湊，高強(qiáng)度，并且非常輕薄，但同時(shí)它還是一款陶瓷產(chǎn)品。所以就如Marc所說(shuō)的，你真的需要很了解陶瓷的獨(dú)特個(gè)性，因?yàn)樘沾晒に嚥幌袼芰献⑺芄に嚹菢�，你只需要有個(gè)形狀，并且知道如何做出符合這個(gè)形狀的模具就可以了。對(duì)陶瓷來(lái)說(shuō)，這種材料幾乎就像具有生命一樣，需要很繁瑣的工藝來(lái)鑄模，干燥，上釉，煅燒。在這些步驟沒(méi)有完成之前，你根本不知道你能得出一個(gè)什么樣的產(chǎn)品。

（左圖為T(mén)oan Nguyen先生為勞芬設(shè)計(jì)的第一款產(chǎn)品Antero小便池，右圖為最新的INO系列洗臉盆及勞芬水龍頭）