New Insictor bench wins prize at Best of the Best at ‘Art in Action’ July 2010.
The Insictor project received 3rd prize in this years Best of the Best Marquee at Art in Action.
Images:
1 to 4 Anja Rott for chaircreative
5,6 Michael Harvey
Following images begin to give an idea to what the Insictor form is all about and the layering of elemental keys.
The fluid transitions rise and fall, escarpment, swathe and hollow.
Traveling at speed below the edge line of the South Down.
Whilst at the same time transcending scales – animated in motion, walking, crawling at perhaps no more than 6 mm high.
It is a complex project and a long way still to go as yet.
The thread bars that lock the elements onto the stainless steel frame. Eventually these will be shortened and capped.
Middle section profiling next.
Now the main structure and assembly is well underway, its time to begin looking at the style, line weights and fluid transitions of the components.
Its quite a task. The main components are quite large and being totally irregular in form, clamping and gripping takes time to set up to work on each of the component pieces.
The images show one of the lower leg arrangements taking shape.
As each cut progresses periodic re-assembly is required in order to evaluate the form in its entirety.
Insictor is an asymmetric piece, however it is still imperative that the overall form appears reflectively balanced and that each line weight movement flows gracefully into the next.
Insictor structure begins to take shape – strung together on a stainless steel tube sub frame assembly.
At this stage nearly all legs have been initially fitted to the body structure although the compound curve gap set joints previously mentioned are still to be fully formed.
These images give a first glimpse to the spatial presence of the piece and you can perhaps begin to get a sense of what this work is all about.
And here are a couple of sneak glimpses of the new hammerhead chair. (see earlier posts)
You will be able to experience this piece soon at the end of March – 21st Century Furniture – The Arts & Crafts Legacy 2 – exhibition.
At the Millinery Works, Islington, London
For those unable to attend – full set of images will be published April.
Following images show work underway on the structure of the Insictor bench form.
Primarily this is the start of the centre section.
Now joined it will be leveled before commencement of the front and back section assemblies. You can perhaps begin to see how the style of the piece is being developed with the organic fluid and sinuous form.
The legs are joined to the body sections with a compound curve 4 mm gap set joint with a 3 point stainless steel tube assembly.
And now for something completely different!
This is the start of ‘Insictor’
This is a sculptural interior bench form in ash and stainless steel at around 3.5 m width.
Finished look will be polished bleached ash.
Surprisingly it is not dissimilar to the creation of a more traditional woven seat frame chair, of which have previously made many with origins in the green wood crafts and associated chair making, ‘bodging with the pole-lathe’ (turning of chair components with self powered lathe).
Drilling the large 38mm dia sockets with brace and bit for the stainless steel frame being very similar to the line up for drilling of chair rungs.
Anyhow, this bench certainly will not look like a traditional frame chair.
There is a long way to go with project – you will see it develop in these pages over next few months.
Also soon to start turning this amazing board of burred chestnut into a really fabulous coffee table, more on that soon too.
New chair – Hammerhead – structure and form work now complete.
I was going to post a couple of images showing the form taking shape of the new Hammerhead chair. (indeed I did for 10 minutes)
However, I have decided that as this form is so different, will wait until the new form is completed for that final one take,
That one look of complete surprise!
no images heres!
There is still much work still to do on this piece to get it just right, however the image below gives a good idea to the stance and spatial presence of this exciting new piece.
And, yes, it is really comfortable.
no image here either!
New chair in development.
Oak, stainless steel.
It is quite a big low set chair – statement piece. Relaxed, very comfortable laid back sitting position with fluid, poised and predatory edge and line work.
Interior finish although could quite happily live outside.
Currently working on jointing from the gills and mouth parts at the moment!
more as it develops.
See it first at 21st Century furniture – Arts & Crafts Legacy 2
Woodform09 exhibition opened on Friday 16th October, in Canterbury High Street, Old Eastbridge Hospital, the Undercroft.
A great space and a well presented local region exhibition featured as part of the Canterbury festival.
If you are in the area do check it out! 17th – 24th October.
