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Parsons Billboard Table

Parsons billboard table

The table is made of MDF, then skinned with one piece of vinyl billboard with only two seams visible on each end then clear coated. The typography is cropped with the intention of being abstract.

Kay Wool Chair

Kay Wool Chair Protoype #2

Material: bent wood, Stainless Steel, high density foam, batting, felted Austrian wool by Zimmer Rohde

H-Chair and Table

H-Chairs and Table

The H-Chairs and dining table is a collaboration between SOLV and designer Patrick McMahon. The chair seats, backs and tabletop are made from wenge wood, with tubular steel frames for chairs and table base. The chair backs utilize the newly designed flexi-pivot connectors which adjust the pitch to each individual sitter. The fabric used for the floating seat cushion is from Osborne & Little. The table is 10 feet long with the end leafs attached, 7.5 feet with out.

Studio Furniture: The Next Generation

Studio Furniture: The Next Generation

New trends in studio furniture are on display in this exhibition of fifteen young artists. The artists, recent graduates of notable furniture programs, merge the traditions of studio furniture--fine craftsmanship and limited production--with experimental materials and concepts. The result is a convergence of art and design in furniture that prompts reconsideration of our relationships with everyday objects. Curated by Dean Wilson, head of the furniture design program at MCAD, and featuring a fully illustrated catalog with an essay by Edward Cooke Jr., professor of American decorative arts at Yale University.

KAY chair

Process

Sourcing used billboard was the first of many challenges presented by the vinyl. Having a custom printed clean, centered image not pieced together would have streamlined the process. Further investigation revealed mass volumes of discarded billboard.

Initially the first prototype started with the desired shape of the shell. In order to accommodate the complex curves, with un-yielding billboard a sewn seam had to be added across the seat. Coming before the material’s needs was design.

The final chair became about a design that would accommodate the billboard, without excessive sewing resulting in a mono wood shell and a simple base to compliment.

KAY Chair description: A formed mono wood shell upholstered in recycled vinyl billboard over high-density foam. Lightweight tubular stainless steel frame.

Faculty show on process / Craft of risk and certainty

George Mahoney
H Chair Jig
Mixed Media 2009
Faculty Show, Process

As a furniture designer and maker my work deals with the multiple. A successful design is represented through the quality of its craft as defined by David Pye, craft of “risk” and of “certainty”. Craft of risk is taking a chance that something can go wrong on a one of a kind piece of art/sculpture. Craft of certainty is dealing with the multiple; the H Chair jig is an example. Each individual chair must be reproduced identically every time. Using metal armatures and clamps with accurate space on every piece we are eliminating variables of risk.