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Introduction to FURNITURE DESIGN
Chapter 1
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Categories and Types
Human Body Supports
Furniture that supports action: including eating,reading, typing, and writing.
Containing: storing, displaying, and organizing furniture pieces including chests, storage units,and shelving units.
Defining space: screens, partitions, modularcomponents furniture that encloses, shapes,
and partitions space.
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Chairs at the Trapholt Furniture Museum, Kolding, Denmark
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The strength and natural good looks of cedar made it the right choice for a chair
custom made for a Sumo wrestler.
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The Leather "Ox Chair" and ottoman shows all of Wegner's 1960's aesthetic of warmth
and simplicity but delivers it with an edge not seen in his wooden works.
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We loved Susan Wood's screens and bent plywood furniture from the moment we saw
them at ICFF a few years ago. Since then, her mattress spring-made room dividers and
bent ply creations have decorated shops from Ferragamo to Saks, and her design lines
keep growing. This year, she debuted our favorite creation yet, the Ribbon Float LoungeChair.
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Outside caf tables and chairs. Tables designed by Eero Saarinen
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Case goods (cabinet and bookcase) designed by Mogens Koch, 1932
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Netherlands design studio OOOMS creates it all: the odd, interesting, useful, useless
products that can all be described as art. Among these are the anti gravity machine,
gold staple jewelry, the Rollator (a treadmill with wheels) and Rebellious Cabinets
(furniture with drawers that cannot all be closed at once). Their most saleable product
seems to be their wooden USB Memory Sticks, a clever combo of nature and
technology, but my favorite is the Expect Cabinet.
A straight lined cabinet with what appears to be 4 drawers turns out to be something
most unexpected, a complex series of hidden spaces.
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Dupont Corian exhibit designed by SOM, 2005
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Parents who are sick of telling their kids to stand up straight may want to try the
opposite approach and indulge their kids' bent for leaning with LeaningMolds. Molded
wall-hung pieces fit together like puzzle pieces to create a stable wall meant
specifically for leaning - and it's appropriate for any age. Available by contacting
Kidsmodern.
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Bloc Screen, designed by Eileen Gray
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Jimmys Buffet Panton S Chair
Poul Kjaerholm Action Office Herman Miller
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Exploring spatial relationships
with furniture
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Childrens Chapel fabricated and installed
by Heartwood Furniture Company, 1995
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Childrens Chapel fabricated and installedby Heartwood Furniture Company, 1995
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Information Visualization
Venn Diagrams
Diagrams
Lexicons
Charts and Matrices
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Mapping various categories
of furniture
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Visual diagram information map
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