furniture: March 2012

Tuesday, 27 March 2012

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Developement of Concept

Requirement for new chairs

1. Dinning chair

2. Simple form

3. Left the origin of the chair

4. Honest to the structure of the chair, Taking the aesthetic on the structure like Japanese traditional house.

5. Focus on function

6. reverse the original piece like back legs become front.

7. ergonomic but not very comfortable and uncomfortable as aesthetic.

The idea from last week which is using the element of the original chair and create the new chair which is completely different experience with the original chair. Swaping the back legs to front and front to back. This chair is target to be used as cafe, resturant chair. Uncomfortable as an aesthetic to create the chair special like Moriyama House in Japan which is toilet outside of the building. All parts of the chair has dual function such as arm rest is not only for arm rest but also for the sturcture of the chair.

Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Week 4: Chair Detailed Examination

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Week 4: Chair Detailed Examination

This chair is the classic dinner chair. I got this chair from the second hand OP shop. This chair has simple and lack of ornamentation. It would probably the one of the modernist chair. The back limb of the chair is the simple geometric spindle shaped. And the front limb is copy the same shape of the back limb. This chair is made up of timber structure. Over all proportion of the chair is bigger than normal dinning chair. It is bigger in width. Due to its proportion, it stands out from other furniture. This chair is cover up with sofa in some place. If it is compare with other chair, it seem to be have higher sitting level but in reality, it is the same due to it has softness of the base. When the user sits on the chair, it will go downwards a little bit and create the same level of sitting height with other dinning chair. The timber limbs are quite unique but the base of the chair is using leather. I might be probably fixed the base and also the structure. But still want to keep some proportions of the chair and some elements. The idea of my chair is going to break the elements of the chair and highlight it's original structure. My new chair would be cafe chair. The elements that I want to keep is the legs and back rest. Using the legs and back rest create a new chairs.

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Week 3

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Exploded assembly drawing of Grand Comfort
Le Corbusier Et Al 1928

My own person drawing.

Group drawing

Monday, 5 March 2012

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Butterfly Stool ( Sori Yanagi)

Butterfly stool is designed by Sori Yanagi (Japanese, 1915-2011) in 1956. It is made with moulded plywood and metal. It is a stool with 15 1/2 “(39.4cm) in height, 17 3/8 “(44.1 cm) in width and 12 1/8” (30.8cm) in length. The researches of this stool are all carried out from Charles and Ray Eames moulded plywood in California to Arne Jacobsen in Denmark.

It is combination of eastern aesthetic and western technology. According to Design classic living from (October 13, 2002, p. 12), “two double-curved pieces of plywood are bolted together where they touch, to make a comfortable and beautiful stool.”” The gently curved silhouette is reminiscent of the wings of a butterfly.”(Sori Yanagi Butterfly stool from Bonluxat 2012). The nickel- brass rod prevents the two curve pieces of plywood from dividing and keeps them stable. The shape of the chair is abstract from the temple of samurai mask and also from butterfly. It became fashionable since 1950s and it works as zen-like spaces for interior. Regarding the “Sori Yangi, Japanese industrial design pioneer, pass away” from core77 in 2011, this stool win an award in 1957 Milan Trienniale and now it is exhibited this chair in both MoMA museum and louvre.

Analysing the structure of the stool, two curve components join together in the middle and supported by roughly 60 degree angle plywood from the floor. The sloping plywood supported by against each other on the top of stool. When the user sit on this stool, it will create force in the middle to downward and that will make the two components far apart. This thing is prevented by the brass fixing element at the lower part of the stool. These ideas create the stool unique and elegance. That’s why it become the icon in design.