A Chair That Shows How Tech and Craft Come Together

Tracy Potter
Design Values, Craft, and Futures
1 min readOct 1, 2016

Important Quotes and Things to Note:

“Woodworking techniques meet 21st century production”

“The hand crafted, shaker-influenced design carries Klebba’s signature exposed joinery — as well as tapered elliptical legs, a subtle and tricky detail greatly facilitated by a five-axis CNC mill.”

“Craft is a verb, a way to realize” — Adam Rogers

“Technology just helps those ideas get better” — Adam Rogers

Thoughts and Questions:

  • Is this an embrace of “contemporary craft”?
  • Important Themes “craft is a verb, a way to realize” , is craft a mental or a physical process?

Kwun, Aileen. “A Chair That Shows How Tech and Craft Come Together.” Dwell. Accessed September 23, 2016. https://www.dwell.com/article/a-chair-that-shows-how-tech-and-craft-come-together-3214d5b6.

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