Chair

These two chairs originated from the same design but were fabricated out of different materials, one bent laminate and the other bent aluminum. I was interested to see how fabricating the same object out of different materials would change or dictate process and production methods.

The process for each of these chairs was wildly divergent from each other. The hand bent and seamlessly welded aluminum chair began in CAD, then water jet the parts, then the meticulous and arduous process of perfectly making all pieces come together and weld in place.

The Process for the bent wood laminate chair of the same design began like a dress maker cutting out a pattern in wood veneers. Then the glueing and pressure molding around the “void molds”. The hardest part was figuring out how to join the separate ribs so that there was srength and structural integrity to the chair.

Both pieces have there merits, I personally prefer the aluminum one as it is a more successful example of the original design intent.

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