Sony Living Room
The artistic aesthetics
of the One Slate experience
A TV can be a work of art in the living-space context, an element for users to experience. Sony has brought that idea to fruition with a new, innovative TV design that inhabits the space with an artistic ambience.
A1 Series*
The inimitable grace
of a single-slate design
The Slice of Living concept takes elements and manners that have always been part of the "living room" ideal and reconstructs them in new ways to create product that harmonize naturally with their surroundings. We wanted to get to the heart of that central essence. We wanted to push the TV aesthetic beyond the traditional realms of furniture and interior design. What we came up with was the One Slate concept—an approach that condenses a given product into a single slate, giving the product a natural elegance for users to experience as a work of art in and of itself. The standard protocols of TV design no longer applied. To create a design capable of transforming living spaces, we knew what it had to do: shape the TV into a work of art.
* In cases of sold in Americas, called A1E series.
Purity in simplicity
Art is about more than just visual appeal—it lets the viewer experience something. That was the basic idea driving the design process for the new TV. As we started formulating concepts for a simple, minimalist aesthetic in the One Slate mold, we thought that we could just use OLED display technology to put all the different functions within the screen itself—and that would eliminate the need for distinct elements like speakers, a bezel, or a stand. For the audio, we incorporated sound into the screen using new sound technology "Acoustic Surfce™" that generates sound through vibrations in the display itself, consolidating the visual experience and the aural experience into a single slate. The TV had to have a sleek, natural presence in wall-mounted configurations, too, so we kept the overall structure minimal with a primary display slate and a support slate on the back. That's all there is to the whole design. Picture, sound, and design aesthetics—when you bring those three components together into a unified whole, you've got all you need. It's the purest One Slate experience possible.
Using glass to enhance structural beauty
The One Slate concept aims to eliminate every extraneous element from the TV design, allowing users to immerse themselves more fully in the viewing experience. To make that minimalist design a reality, we decided to go back to square one and overhaul the entire TV structure. By taking the substrate and terminals—components that normally occupy the back surface of a TV—and putting them inside the rear support slate, for example, we gave the screen side a slimmer profile. The glass covering, meanwhile, bolsters the structure with added strength and makes for an exquisite, glossy finish. The One Slate look holds true from any standpoint, too: We kept the back slate as narrow as possible to hide the edges from view—even from an oblique angle. Another focal point was the pitch of the screen, which we tweaked to ensure that the display would sit at a natural angle and give users a comfortable viewing experience. By bringing all these different details together into a complete, no-frills design, the TV does more than just evoke a work of art with a sleek, single-slate silhouette. It also has the aesthetic versatility to go anywhere in the room—not just in the corner—and resonate with spaces in any configuration, be it on the wall or on a flat surface.
Contrasting materials
by learning from living spaces
The TV's unique fusion of image and sound needed to be compatible with living spaces. That meant getting all the details right, all the way down to the materials. For the aluminum lining the sides of the screen, we found the perfect combination of dye coloring and chemical polishing to deliver a sheen that would harmonize with the glass material but still maintain a discreet, delicate touch. The team also arranged the actuator, located on the middle of the back surface for optimal sound, to form a horizontal solid bar with the aluminum that also gives the product a slimmer look.
For the support slate, we used a fabric material to contrast the glass with a soft visual texture. By incorporating a diverse mix of materials that feature prominently in living spaces, from fabric and glass to aluminum, the TV strikes a natural chord with its surroundings.
Image, sound, and look—no more, no less. Sony's new design breaks the TV concept down into the embodiment
of functional and aesthetic simplicity, creating a viewing experience like no other.
Just like a work of art shapes a gallery,
the One Slate experience changes the way TVs and spaces interact.
Source: https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/design/stories/oneslate/
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