The Furniture Studio is an opportunity to deepen the perspective on designing and making, gain skills and enhance aesthetic training. The studio is designed to extend the range of studies through a process of testing and evaluating, to take small-scale models up to the build design. The intent is to learn, examine, and discover critical solutions of the design and construction of a custom-made piece of furniture. The theme for this studio is how furniture can help us shape our future and how can a design stand the test of time as we grow old with it; or in other words, “furniture for retirement.”
HUMAN - SPACE - AGE - MATERIAL.
Project 1: Taburettli - “The Stool”
The Stool assignment served as a means to introduce us to furniture design and construction. We were tasked to design and construct a stool within 7 hours and ensure it would be able to support our own weight. The intent for my design was to use as few pieces as possible - simple, but complex. I aimed to create a piece that had dimensionality and would provide a different function or interpretation based on the perspective.
Final Project: CUBO
With the prompt of designing furniture for retirement, I decided to go in a non-literal route. Instead of designing furniture that your body retires in - I designed my furniture with the idea of a “place of retirement for your objects.” Where do your objects go to retire at the end of the day? Where to they live? Side-tables seemed like an appropriate response once I began to think about the prompt in this way.
The following is the final booklet I put together with the intention of telling the story of CUBO and documenting the process of designing the tables.
