Architectural Materials in Furniture Design
Observation Platform
Architects skillfully employ a variety of materials to shape space and provide the shelter for life’s activities. Volumes and enclosures designed by these skilled hands effect human emotions and, indeed, the course of our history. Furniture designers play no less important a part of daily life by providing the comfort people desire and supporting the functions required for maintaining the smooth flow of society. From Le Corbusier to Frank Lloyd Wright some of societies’ most famous architects have designed some of its most well known furniture.
I find pleasure and beauty in the materials of the built world. As an architect studying furniture design, I incorporate the beauty, logic, and language of the modern architect’s material pallet into my furniture pieces. Every piece of the buildings people inhabit, from the concrete footing and steel reinforcement to the railing on a spiral stair, was thoughtfully considered by the designers who imagined the forms and then skillfully handled by the craftsmen who assembled them. Each element serves its specific purpose in its specific place. There is a harmony between function and form, as well as between material and location.
I find pleasure and beauty in the materials of the built world. As an architect studying furniture design, I incorporate the beauty, logic, and language of the modern architect’s material pallet into my furniture pieces. Every piece of the buildings people inhabit, from the concrete footing and steel reinforcement to the railing on a spiral stair, was thoughtfully considered by the designers who imagined the forms and then skillfully handled by the craftsmen who assembled them. Each element serves its specific purpose in its specific place. There is a harmony between function and form, as well as between material and location.
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Observation Chair
2010
40" x 40" x 96"
Cast Concrete, Stainless Steel, Redwood
Tectonic Stools
These three stools were miniature re-imagination of my Observation Chair. Concrete steel and wood composed in a materially intelligent approach to architectural materials in furniture design: solid mass of concrete, structural steel, warm wood.
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Jive Walker Stool
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Squat Jack Stool
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