This chair sets out to bring together technology and craft.
I love handmade. I have been building fine furniture for many years. I love the detailed process and the tactile connection with the object.
I love machine made. I love the precision, the perfection in industrial scalability, which creates decoration in high-spec finishes. I have been working on mass production projects for a long time with an equal passion.
The goal is to marry these two quite diverse processes into one object to celebrate that narrative.
The typology is a simple chair, a natural kind of geometry, but in a maximalist, and sculptural way. They will bring together several opposing production methods and locations and celebrate the dichotomy.
Building the chair was a huge challenge. The simplest things are always the most complex.
The metal components were created first. Produced via CNC machine from a large billet of aluminium. A specialist process, from large machinery with high degree of accuracy and perfect finish. The form is rather organic, like a bronze or casting, a sculpture within itself, which has very small tabs to minimise the visual impact and optimise the structural of the backrest and fix the parts together in very specific places. Building the wood joinery around this was a huge challenge, pushing my hand craft to be exact in every angle, ever join, and every surface. If the leg angles were half a degree out, or a few mm’s in the wrong place. the metal parts would not fit together.
The outcome is rather unique, in that the metal part provides a structural quality to brace the legs, and a decorative quality in its materiality.
