I was invited to show the chairs that I made at Anderson Ranch (near Aspen, Colorado) as part of a show at the SAW gallery’s (Carbondale, CO) on process. I hung these three chairs, some concept sketches, a full scale drawing and a seat template.
My statement from the show:
These chairs are an exercise in the use of local materials and a study in design for small-scale production runs. The seat of each chair is made from beetle kill Lodge Pole Pine. I started off with the sketches and moved towards thinking about technical aspects of construction. The large full-scale drawing was made to determine the leg angles of the first chair in the series my Studio Chair. The back of this chair was designed as part of the construction process.
After completing the Studio Chair, I looked closely at the chair and refined the proportions and forms. The results were the Electro Pop Chair and Green Line Chair. In these chairs the leg and back angles changed. The parts of the back became more square and the lines where cleaned up. The template on the wall represents the refined angles and proportions used to create the second batch of chairs.