This is one of four Furniture program courses focused on specialized craft-based skill development. We consider the chair as both a functional and iconographic object, as a cultural symbol and feat of engineering.Building on the skills learned in Furniture Fundamentals (FURNT-1000) students will gain a deeper understanding of the design process and advanced furniture making skills.

Techniques covered in this course include advanced joinery, bent lamination and steam bending. Students will design and build their own original piece of seating that expresses their unique ideas and the strategies to express them through these means.