Week One Furniture

Introduction to furniture, the basics unraveling.

First class with John Cherrey. Mr 1/100 MM.

Screws, our focus for the first project. Able to be put in and taken out easily, ideal for flat pack furniture.

Palettes, reminds me instantly of my dodgy old bed frame roughly sawn not sanded, early morning stubbed toes found from Carlton and Collingwood, however, a great readily available material. What is the nature of the surface of the material?

Plane surface, level material not twisted.

Finishes, considering colour, opacity, surface

Standard heights, how high is a standard table? I was completely off with this, expectations subverted.

Shadow Line, where two surfaces don’t come together perfectly and there’s a gap. Mies squeezing space between two infinitely flowing planes. Gives the illusion that the wall continues.

Design Intentions. Consider.

Accuracy in measuring. Accuracy to 1/10 of a millimetre. SHARP pencil. Sit directly above your work. Put your measurements at the start. Steel ruler with mm’s both sides. Can use a knife instead of a pencil.

Demonstration in class // white cubes
THIS IS BIG FOR ME. I NEED TO BE MORE PRECISE. 
I used to think that I was compulsively neat and needed things to be by the millimeter but this requires a level of patience, understanding and practice to make things accurate to much less than 1mm, that I do not routinely practice. I need to learn to work in the workshop before deadlines, when time prevails and with a calm, relaxed attitude. This would also be helpful to the workshop staff as to not approach them in rush, with a considered idea of what I want to do, proper drawings with exact measurements and a good idea, with prototypes of joints before the question of what they will be arises. Time will allow for more creativity and for it to be a better process all round. Machines do allow for a very precise measurement and makes being accurate extremely possible.