This is one of four Furniture program courses focused on specialized craft-based skill development for designing and fabricating furniture and other sculptural objects. We consider the chair as both a functional and iconographic object, as cultural symbol and feat of engineering. Building on the fundamental skills learned in Introduction to Furniture, students will gain a deeper understanding of the design process through a series of exercises and in-process reviews.  Techniques covered in this course include advanced joinery and structure, and the specific methods of construction used in frame, volumetric, and planar seating.  Formal aspects of chair design including line, proportion, ergonomics, materials and concept are all criteria for appreciating the chair form as a functional object, and as statements of design and works of art. Students will be expected to develop unique ideas and the strategies to express them through these means.

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