Furniture Reporter

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In real life, women (so I’ve heard) are always rearranging the furniture. My friend Emma used to move sofas and entertainment cabinets often. Jess could go to work in the morning and have no clue what direction he’d be facing as he sat in his favorite armchair to watch the evening news. (You did keep the t.v. in play, I assume, Emma!) I can picture Jess coming home bone-tired from work after one of Emma’s energy-filled home rearrangement fits and sitting down on the cat tree to watch the dining room table.

My dad is always complaining because my mom frequently (according to him) determines a better way to arrange the kitchen cabinets so he can never find anything. Once when we were preparing to move for another, better-paying job, my father laid credit (blame) for the move on my mother. He completely shocked me when he stated that my mother, the nesting, creatively domesticated, mostly-stay-at-home mom “got restless”.

It’s time to move on,” he said. “Your mom’s getting restless.

So now, she doesn’t get restless to leave town.

But somewhere in her she’s hard-wired to rearrange the cupboards. Maybe it’s hard-wired into every woman.

Whatever.

It drives my dad nuts when he can’t find … well, nuts, for example. (Dad, they’re under the cabinet that you build on the kitchen table side.)

Or small bowls (up top to the left as you face the sink), or plastic containers (got me there, I don’t have a clue!).

He loves my mom, but this constant changing of the pot and pan storage space doesn’t sit well with him. Personally, I think that’s just an excuse for him to stay out of the kitchen. but that’s a blog for another day.

While Terry and I will surely deal with issues of furniture and kitchen arrangement, it’s also likely that we’ll have issues with the technologies that we use.

OK, everyone who knows me and is surprised that technology plays an important role in our relationship, please stand…I can’t see you…are you standing? Of course not. Silly question

So here’s the real test…when we originally launched our blog, this was the design that I suggested and we used:

But this design has lots of problems. I don’t like the way (or lack thereof) that it shows additional pages. I want a page the is dedicated to telling the story of how we met and re-met. (It’s pretty cool. I’ll get it up there soon!)

I’m tired of the dark background. I like clean and minimalist. Black feels formal. White can go either way which is why I chose this fun header.

I love the multiple meanings behind the two thumbs pointing at each other while our backs are still touching tightly. You can’t see our faces, but you can imagine (and you’d be right) that we are laughing and having a good time. We are also sitting on the floor barefoot so there is a sense of vulnerability, but so confident in our love for each other that we relish being vulnerable to each other. If you could see our smiles, you would understand the playfulness we enjoy with each other, but you could also see the lines and crinkles that indicate we aren’t just naive kids. (if you could see our middle range, you’d definitely know we aren’t kids. At least we aren’t kids who get out and play sports!)

So I made this change to our blog on my own because…

• It’s easy to change back and
• I have more experience with blogs.

But maybe I should have run it by him first. After all,

• We have the same cell phone plan so we talk for free.
• We skype. That’s free and easy.
• We iChat.
• We Twitter.
• We Text.

But we are also living our lives out loud on this blog. And one of the things couples do is to sort out when they do and do not need permission from each other to make changes. Emma never asked Jess where to put the end tables. Mom never asked dad where to put the tarragon.

So where does that place me in this brave new world?

• Can I rearrange this blog and give it a new look?
• Does Terry have that same right?
• If one of us doesn’t like what the other does, how do we discuss that?

We have many things to consider, but none of them scare me.

That’s why I put up the screen shots earlier.

By the time you read this, the header on this blog may change a thousand times just as the two of us will change. But we’ll love each other through every change. Some changes we’ll laugh about upon reflection.

Like these two for example:

I think that we are “much improved”

In the meantime, I’ve captured the screen shots of what the header looked like when I first made the change. That way, if Terry changes it to something else that I and others reading this blog think is goofy, I can always refer to an earlier iteration of my own choosing and say, “see honey, I told you so.”

It’s never too early to start preparing for that eventuality!

BTW, I love you, honey!

Taylor

Designer: @ DUMDUM

lamps made of mineral bottles

This post is salutation to those designers who create stunning designs out of day today waste and other small little things to inspire me!

What is day today life made of?

A lot of waste occupy space in everyday life in form of plastic and omg! - newspapers (I am always accused of keeping newspapers till ’the newspaper pillar’ touches the roof!!); so I am happy to discover these designers.

And a little greenery and small buttons also cheer me up!

 handmade handbag @ Nahui Ollin

Nahui Ollin is a collection of unique and fashionable handbags and accessories made from recycled materials - by specially folding and weaving candy wrappers, gum wrappers and soda bottle labels–together to create the various beautiful shapes and sizes

ALL materials are factory rejects from independent manufactures and have never been used. These same materials were certain to be sent to a land fill or garbage dump only to pollute the earth more!

Architect-Designer: Charles kaisin

chair made of newspaper

Designer: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec @ Teracrea

Treille is a system of cylindrical vases, horizontally aligned and connected by nylon belts and height-adjustable painted stainless steel tutors. A stair set can be created, made of three containers, to hang from the ceiling or from a wall.

Can be kept inside as well as outside.

Button tray & bowl @ greener grass design

 When sewn and knotted together these simple buttons make interesting design!

A friend of mine and his wife are having a baby! They asked if I had a rocking chair design. I hadn’t, but it was something I had been thinking of and working on, off and on, for a long time. I decided to finally complete a design with the hope that my friend would like it and want the chair. Above is a rendering I’ve just completed of my design. Below I’ll write a little about the process of designing the chair.

I knew that one of the biggest hurdles facing me in this project was Sam Maloof. Sam created the definitive craftsman designed and made rocker many years ago. Many, many woodworkers have copied, emulated and been inspired by the Maloof chair and it’s no wonder. Not only is the Maloof chair in many ways beautiful he also published how he made the chair along with drawings with dimensions. The earliest article I’ve found is his “How I Make a Rocker” in the September/October 1983 issue of Fine Woodworking magazine.

Actually I told my friend about the Maloof rocker and he indicated that he had seen versions of it already but he wanted me to re-interpret that rocker in my own way. There were elements of that rocker that didn’t really look right to my eye, that I thought may have been concessions to practicality, to designing a chair that could be sold at a given price point perhaps. This is part and parcel of the design process and I cannot criticize this aspect of the process at all. It is necessary if the design will ever be built. But this did give me an entry point to the design.

I was surprised though that with so many others making versions of this chair no one else had addressed the issues that I saw. So, I decided to use the Maloof chair as my starting point and try and work out those elements that just didn’t sit right with me. In doing that I hoped that I would come up with a design distinctive enough that I could put my name on it.

Kem Weber designed a chair he called the Airline Chair. My sketchbooks have many drawings of variations of this chair and in going back through them to review my past attempts at this summit I decided to pull some of this work out and stare at it for a good long time. You can see an example of Weber’s chair here. And here is one of my sketches that shows the influence of that chair:

After quite a bit of sketching with pencil on paper I moved to my CAD program, Rhinocerous and started “sketching” on the computer. I developed a profile that I found interesting.

The circle and arrow were part of my study of the center of gravity for a person on the rocker.

I also used my “ergo man” to study the profile.

I would return to my ergo man throughout the process to check dimensions and the location of the arms and back spindles. I continued to refine the profile.

I then used the profile drawings to guide me as I built the design up into 3 dimensions. I also used the Flamingo rendering program to apply wood grain and texture to the design. Here is an early rendering I created to see if I was headed in the right direction.

It became apparent to me that I was getting close but still had a lot of work to do. It was right around here that I realized that I did not like the crest rail, that rail at the top that the spindles ended into. It was not only derivative of the Maloof design but it was too heavy for my eye.

Once I changed that rail I was free to change the profile of the back legs as they rose up to meet the crest rail. I was able to then add a curve in a different plane, to bow them slightly. This was getting exciting now.

Here’s an image showing the bow I am talking about.

The above image also shows the changes I made in the front legs. I added material to them and shaped them to reflect the bow of the back legs in the same plane. With the curve of the crest rail I was expressing a cradling of the sitter. I emphasized this cradling by adding curved brackets at the joint of the back legs and the crest rail, up at the top.

I resolved a couple of other issues, particularly the joint of the back legs to the arcs that curve under and support the seat and really felt as if this chair was becoming complete. Here’s another view of the finished design.

Since my friend and I are both surfers, as is my friend’s wife for that matter and their new baby will likely surf as well I did a rendering of the chair in maple with walnut stringers in the seat. A reference to surfboard stringers.

I list the chair on my website here although this is the only place I show the surfer version (so far).

Frederick Weinberg, 1950s.