Seneca chair par Ian Cooke

Ian Cooke, jeune designer américain basé du côté de Philadelphie nous présente son projet de chair réalisée du côté de Copenhague dans le cadre d’un workshop, baptisé Seneca chair, une assise confortable entièrement en bois.

Deux coques pouvant nous renvoyer une nouvelles fois aux créations Eames, viennent parfaitement vous soutenir, le tout solidement fixé à une structure et piètement architecturaux.

« During a 9-week design program in Copenhagen with the Danish Institute  for Study Abroad, I was tasked with designing and building a chair completely out   of hardwood. This went from conceptualization to hand built full-scale model   during that time.   With complete creative freedom, I started exploring different ideas with my   one restriction in mind that would be comfortable and usable in almost any   space.  Taking inspiration from Danish tradition: I wanted to incorporate an   interesting use of light, a clean visual aesthetic, and use the joinery as an   interesting visual element.   I first started sketching ideas as they came to mind, which progressed for   several weeks during the initial study period.  The entire group of students then   went on two-week study trips, which lead us to experience many different   designers from 3 different countries.  Returning to Copenhagen, I started   modeling and drawing simultaneously in order to have 3 solid ideas to bring to   the mid crit.  Moving on from the mid crit we had one week to finalize our design,   which then moved to 1:1 construction drawings done by hand.  These drawings   were then used to build our chair starting from a raw slab of wood.  Mapping out   our wood carefully was very important.  We had to make sure that it would all fit   on one piece, which would then be cut down to my determined measurements.    Having 2 weeks to build our chairs this tedious process had to move quickly.    The shells were found in their raw state to match what I needed, pressured for   time I had to make decisions quickly in order to finish. Finally, gluing all of the   pieces together was the moment of truth.  The chair is sturdy, and comfortable   and was finished in time for the annual DIS show.  It now sits in my home, and   looking forward I am working with the design to make it more easily, and quickly   repeatable.« 

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