Farm Chair
Design a chair that is influenced by my experiences spent around in Copenhagen, Denmark.
I had the opportunity to study abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark and participate in a furniture design program. Not only was I able to learn furniture design and fabrication from some of the most world-renowned furniture makers in the world, a portion of the program was spent traveling throughout Scandinavia experiencing the unique culture, visiting museums, and seeing the studios of some of the most famous designers of our time.
My design was meant to represent the intersection of my time in Denmark and my childhood in Indiana. The strong use of lines is reminiscent of some of the great architecture of Scandinavia, as well as the perfect consistent lines created by rows of corn in fields throughout the Midwest.
Grundtvig’s Church
Copenhagen, Denmark
Henry’s Ecumenical Art Chapel
Turku, Finland
Flag Halyard Chair
Hans Wegner
Folding Chair
Hans Wegner
Hunting Chair
Borge Mogensen
PK 25
Poul Kjaerholm
When sketching ideas for my final chair design, I knew I wanted to have a woven seat and back so I focused a lot on creating a strong side profile. I created 1/5th scale mockups of the final design and full scale working drawings to get the proportions correct. I also explored a variety of patterns for the woven seat and back before deciding on the final and actually created full scale working drawings of those as well to keep myself in check because the pattern was so complicated. The biggest constraint was that in order to ship the chair back to the US, it had to fit in an 80cm x 80cm x 80cm box. This is the reason for such a low, lounge-like profile.
