Final Design

The prototype completed.
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The Pieces cut and stuck and painted:

The Prototype with two coats of paint and a sand.

The Model for a comparison to the final form.

 
The prototype having the last sections of araldite dry.

Using the seat to sand the Backrest.

The blocks of blue foam that were used to make the chair. They are colour coded to aid in assembly and cutting at angle.

 

The original chair being cut up for it's required pieces.

Here are some images of my blue foam and beginings to cut it up:

The Coloured sections shown as part of the blue foam block, with the 'front half' on the top (first 400mm into the block depth) and the 'back half' being the last 200mm, the length being 2500mm of the block and height being the 165mm of the block. This attempts to visualise the 3 dimentions of the block being divided up into the sections of the chair.

The Technical drawing showing the chair split up into coloured sections as part of the chair. Excess is attempted to be minimised by having the blue section in 3 parts and the yellow split into 2. 

A closer shot illustrating the seperate areas to be used for the design.

 

The full piece of foam to be cut up

Here is my final technical drawing page:

Here is the final design that was signed off with the technical drawing above:

Here is a refinement page before arriving to the final design:

This is the original chair completed in technical drawing to be altered for the new design:

 

Ive now pulled off all the upholstery from the chair and removed as many nails that were easily pulled out with calipers. here are a few shots of that process.

Chair Ideation.

From the designs below, i selected 3 and presented them with alternate and similar designs:





Here are my ideation pages incorportating my chair in the designs, proceded by (what i believe are) the best 3 designs chosen from said concepts:

My Chair

Here are some images of the chair that i have obtained. Its a very low chair that reaches about 1m from the ground. Personally i see this chair evolving into the rocking veriety. The chair was found in my backyard, amoungst other similarlty disused and dereliced chairs. There was no cost in precuring this chair.

The chair itself is made from a hard wood that is covered in a very worn fabric, nailed all together, possibly with the aid of glue. There is no lable to speak of, therefore hard to find out who constructed the chair itself. The fabric appears to be a standard traditional pattern worn away and ripped, with light staining and dust, with a white underside fabric. The innards are simple, with the seating section conatining springs overlaid with some form of fabric stuffing (possibly cotton stuffing). The back rest contains the same fabric contents (albeit overflowing).

The manufacturing process would have been fairly simple, with the wood cut and sanded into shape, then glued and nailed into its current form. The main patterened fabric would then cover the outter, with the springs and stuffing inserted, then the underside fabric nailed over the base to hold the whole. The backrest would have undergone a similar process, with the patterned fabric replacing the white for the back of the chair to maintain the aesthetics.

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Here are my selected photographs of 20th century furniture from the ngv. Most of the designs found there i thoroughly enjoy, aside from the few seeming to represent 'poor design'.

My favorite chair of all time. I can see this lasting a long time and only getting better in time.

This looks ergonomic whilst having very simple lines; almost like a dentist's chair.

Octopus legs!

Frank Gehry's forays into furniture may not echo his architecture in any obvious sense, but the unique applications of materials, such as this layered cardboard, does resonate with his use of titanium.

The three selected designs i have sketched and commented about.

The Chair that i have selected to write about is the squiggle side chair, part of the easy edges collection by frank gehry. He is most noted for his architectural designs, still be produced today, with unique use of matertials, such as titanium coverings over whole surfaces. He is noted for producing buildings such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbau, the Walt Disney Concert Hall and 'Dancing House' in Prague.

He continued this with his chairs in the late 1960's to early 1970's, when he created his cardboard furnuiture collection. He utilized cardboard in alternating and stacked grain to acchieve structural integrity and stability, which was unheard of in that period, and is still seen as unique today. This uniqueness of design is in fact quite comfortable and durable. The final material used is hardboard to cap the ends of the chair, as the end pieces of cardboard would start to wear away very quickly. I personally have sat in this chair and enjoyed it, whilst feeling suprised that it had slight give in the squiggles.