Materials used: maple, oak, carpenter glue, soap (for final wash)
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In 2003, I lived in Copenhagen and studied Scandinavian and furniture design. I designed and constructed the Heathcliff Stool (named after the American cartoon cat), a stout lil’ thang with a personality of a super-hero. It’s interlockable, stackable, and more intriguingly, it defies the usual facial and edge perception of a normal chair.
The seat, instead of one flat surface, is made of several linear surfaces together. The legs, instead of separate dowels, are really just the corners from the faces of the stool. Every component of the chair is dependent on one piece of rectangle prism pole that acts like a spine. The construction of the chair was inspired by the massive amounts of smoked fish I had to eat while I was in Scandinavia. I guess it was either that or danish pastry.
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May 29, 2008 at 1:44 am
Jude
How does the spine stay suspended beneath the faces? Is it attached, glued, nailed?
May 29, 2008 at 8:36 am
momopeche
There are 4 dowels that I used, 2 on each end that goes through the spine and the large end pieces.
June 5, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Jude
And carpenter glue to hold the dowels in place, I assume?
It’s a cool design. I’d only be scared all the time that too much weight would dislodge the spine from the end pieces.