Leah: ALL

TO HOLD 

• Chair/ Couch 

• Desk 

• Dresser/Cabinet 

What I know I would want in my design: 

• For it to both look and feel comfortable 

• Size inclusive- everyone can sit in it and be comfortable

• Likely some level of extra function can be used on it but look aesthetically appealing

Themes of interest:

- Botanical

- nature implication with cream, green, browns, and others in that palette

- A different direction also would be really bright and bold colors which is the inverse side

Sebastian Brajkovic

Makemei company

Makemei company

Ilian Milinov

• Meant to be a hug chair for couples 

• I actually don't like that idea (It gives me ick) but I think this is a super creative sleek chair to use as a spot to put your laptop or your coffee and I would want to use this chair as inspiration for a more subtle way to handle that function 

• I would want it to be size inclusive too and so I would need to think about how that affects the form or how or if it could move to do this 

He Mu and Zhang Q design 

• I do not like the color of them I think it makes them look unclean 

• I really like the functional concept and I love and cringe at the way it is balanced

Marc Venot 

• This chair looks like such a cozy place to land 

• I like this aesthetically because it looks a bit like a flower and I would want to play into that 

• Also don't really like this color but I loved the blue and other versions of it 

He Mu and Zhang Q 

• I like the way their chair/bookshelf works way more than the other one 

• I don't however like how ridged and uncomfortable it looks 

-Branca Lisboa

- I love this chair for the organic wood look and flowing lines

-The cream/white and wood contrast is a look I really like

- Branca Lisboa

-I like the color and the flow of this chair

TO PULL

Update 11/17:  

I don’t have a more recent picture of the drawer pulls all cleaned up but I will add that asap 

• picture of dresser?
• chase with dremel
• drill indention in back for threaded insert
• patina and seal- keep simple
• glue in threaded insert or weld in
• attach

Here are the pieces after their were poured

To Pull: 

• Drawer pulls 
• Glass drawer pull? -a mix of glass as the bulb of the pull but then the bronze and the structure and attachment to the drawer?
• Door handle 
• Ceiling fan cord pull
• hairbrush? -wood and bronze?

I've decided its most functional for me and my idea to do a drawer pull

What I want in my design: 

• Avoid sharp edges 
• Leaves, plants, or flowers
• Organic and flowing lines 

I am intrigued by this drawer pull because it is more abstract and suggests a leaf but also because it opens the drawer in a different way that I find interesting. 

Hedgerow

- I like this for the fluidity and the movement of the tree as well as how they are slightly abstracted

• These have the potential to be drawer pulls cast in bronze. 
• I could also go a different direction and do door pulls of longer leaves or vine

    The urge I have with my drawer pull idea is to use nature to inspire them. I feel the temptation to either make them accurate like a botanical illustration or to choose one or multiple plants and create a slight or major abstraction from them to make the drawer pulls more unique. I have been drawn to plants and flowers my whole life being lucky enough to grow up at a museum where in the summers there were an abundance of flowers in the gardens. In high school, I worked as a gardener for several years. Since then I have added them in to my work and want to find the direction I want to go in with them and feel that the drawer pulls would be a place they would translate well with. 

    A flower I felt drawn to in the past year was the Forget-Me-Not. This symbolizes friendship and I found it important as two of the friends I had grown close were in their senior year and going to graduate a year before me. With that said I think it would be interesting to play with flowers and their meanings relating to different parts of your life across a dresser like the one in my childhood bedroom (unfortunately I do not have a picture of it at this time). Or a different dresser to symbolize taking that into another chapter in a way where these people and moments can move with you. 

These are drawings of the leaf, flower, and the Stamen (center pollinating area) of a Forget-Me-Not. This drawing is making me think I am more drawn to the pollinating part of the flower as a type of abstraction. 

Plaster Mold: 

Here are my wax pieces after working with them and before sprucing them:

Here is my image for how I plan on attaching my sprues and vents 

Corrected version of how to sprue my wax with the updated six: 

TO HANG

Update 11/17: 

 

    This would be about 2 feet tall 

Since I have so many flowers to work with I was thinking I could have one larger 2 foot form and a smaller key holder with the smaller flowers as well.

To avoid the issue of the flowers being imperfect and could cause things to fray I was thinking they could also be more of a key holder instead so nothing would be rubbing on them. I do however have 8 of the flower forms so I have a lot to work with. 

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This is an idea for more organic as opposed to minimalistic look. This could also combine the two into a key holder and then the larger holder 

I thought this could be a fun play on a coat hanger. I was thinking I could hammer some sheet metal to be more organic and weld it on to the rod as well. 

The main issue I m currently faced with is that these forms are not friendly for hanging fabric on directly. I have some ball caps but this couldn’t be reason is it’s current sharpness as something people would want to buy for their homes to hang their hats on though the smaller forms are much more rounded out. 

Cierra actually suggested that is could be used as a plant hanger. I really like this idea though I have questions about how it would how the plants I’m a way that is far enough away from the wall so they hang properly though I think it could work well past that. 

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   Hang 

    Coat rack 

    Shelf 

    Clock 

    Pendulum 

    Garland 

    Mirror 

    Plant hanger

Plant Hangers 

Coat rack- key holder

This could have different ball forms or be more suggestive of nature 

I have decided for my “to hang” project I would like to do a hat/coat rack which will hang off of the wall. Like the example above but with flowers instead of bulbs to follow the floral and abstract ideas from my “to pull” piece. 

To start I got some fake flowers. Then I dipped them in wax to give them some more body so they would be more firm and more likely to pour. 

I laid them out and put oiled sand and baby powder on them to prepare them for the sand mold:

Results of the sand mold and removing the flowers: 

Here are some pictures of the iron flower directly after the iron pour:

TO LIGHT

For my “to light” piece I knew I would want to create a tale lamp since my burlap forms idea did not work out for me. I think if it lends itself to it when I find a lamp that I would enjoy putting some of my solid burlap forms with it but I do not feel hopeful that it will work. 

This is a lamp at work that I envision would be the form I want for my burlap lamp. So now all I have to do is go find one just like it (of course easier said than done)!

I don’t want to cheapen the look of the lamp at all but I am considering how I can make it more engaging or whether I want it to be simple and speaking for itself. 

This was my burlap piece when I first broke it out of its sand mold

Here is the main form that I will use for my to light 

These were the original hollow forms I was going to hang for my to light but they cold shut. 

These are the solid forms that I poured in South Dakota that could still be used somewhere in this piece.