First, I finished up the third version of the foot-chair. I had seven sheets of baltic birth plywood cut with a CNC router (that just means the drill bit that is doing the cutting is controlled by a computer) to make twenty-one plywood layers. Then I had to glue each layer to the next and sand the whole thing smooth. And it works! When someone goes to sit down the chair tips backwards. But if the feet are propped up on the rest the weight is counterbalanced and the chair sits flat.
Then it was off to New York for the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. I had some family make it up for the event and it was really fun to share the design world with them.
When I got back from NYC it was time to move all of my work over to the show space. During set-up I was pretty overwhelmed by the amount of space my work needed to fill, but in the end it was nice to have a little buffer of empty space around each piece. I shared the space with a fellow classmate who used the front half while I got the back. Making its blog debut is the completed wenge table with the slide puzzle top. It was by far the biggest hit of the show.
And then I graduated! Goodbye Providence. Goodbye RISD.
