Sunday, November 7, 2010

Final Model vision

Chair imagined in its "Centre Place" setting. Not the best render, but you get the picture

Saturday, November 6, 2010

FINISHED!!!

With my chair finished, I thought it would be good to have a play around and see what I think it would look like if it were used as part of a set.


AS PART OF A SET OF THREE, PART OF A PACKAGE



AS PART OF A DOUBLE SET WITH A DIFFERENT TABLE


STACKED UP ON TOP OF EACH OTHER



Chair perspectives

Chair in a few perspective shots






Model Specs

Final Chair Design

After 12 weeks and 2 weeks of sourcing material and cutters, this is my final design in action.




Model Comparison

A comparison of all my three models. From start to finish.

Placing the rubber

Putting the rubber on proved to be the hardest part.

The rubber that I am using is the best in the world and due to its properties high contact adhesive did not suit this application of tensioned adhesion.

Unfortunately for me, I did not put enough time into how the rubber would attach to the chair as I should have, and due to the rubber's 900% elongation (standard rubbers only have 100-200% elongation) it was far trickier than I had imagined.

However, after working with my weave for quite a while, the finished product turn out quite nicely. What's better is that thanks to the rubber's other natural properties (double non-slip surface) I only need to use two screws (for 4.5 individual pieces of rubber). I then managed to double wrap the chair in rubber to hide the screw points and have a very smooth weave all the way around.