First and second chairs

 I first went about stripping the chairs to find any problems, luckily the only main one was the foam seating of one of them was in really bad condition. i measured up the size of the foam and bought a new replacement which i cut, grated and sanded to shape.

i then went on to choosing materials, as well as colour scheme. As i said before i wanted a dark feeling to my chairs and to bring old with the new so i went with matt black wood and a deep red silk and a high grade black velvet for the other. i went with two completely different materials as to see the over all outcome, i new the velvet would work as it was nice and thick so would create a nice smooth even finish but the silk is so much more pliable so would be hard to get a even finish.

 i cut out from the original material the pattern for the seat coverings and proceeded to apply them to the chairs.

As they were reproduction they did not use original nails but staples which is what i used as well.

looking and finding my first 2 chairs.

I had a reasonable idea about what i was looking for; something reasonably chunky that i wouldn't damage easily for my first full sized chair to work on. i looked around any where and every where and found a couple on line that i managed to win in a auction, the plus size to these chairs was that they were both reproduction and exactly the same besides a few bumps and nicks in the wood. 

Chairs

For this project i am planning to create a range of stylised chairs with a dark theme. i want to take existing classic style arm chairs and give them a new life and meaning that people of are time would like. I want to make this project eco friendly as the trends today are being eco-freindly and "green", plus this keep certain costs down but adds some parameters to work within. I also plan to make a singular chair that i will work on and document to which i will use a "destruct and construct" method which will Intel me striping a chair down and then damaging or "destructing" the chair and then documenting that and then constructing something new with what i have from that point and again documenting my steps. this process will be repeated so by the end there will hopefully but just a skeleton of the original chair.

Evaluation

My aim with this project was to take an existing object that was no longer in use or at the end of it life with a consumer and bring it into the light again with re-vamping it. I feel that i have achieved that by creating some edgy and exciting pieces of work. i am disappointed with the mirror as it kept on breaking. I am most pleased with my chair, i felt it had a good representation of one of my artists studies but still looked very different as well as looking to my taste very appealing. Over all i think that i would have liked to do some more objects and maybe looked into scavenging broken objects and then created whole new products too, to then add designs, but i am pleased with what i have created.

finals

Here are a few quick images of my final pieces of work that i have re-vamped.

Print try outs.

I have tried out some different materials to print on for the chair and also i experimented with colours.

The failed mirror.

I had selected to create a mirror design on the glass but i came across some problems over and over again, i had come up with a design which was different to the others and it was drawn out and i was ready to apply it to the glass itself, but the mirror broke. I then went out and bought more mirrors to replace it but they again broke so i in total went threw about 4 mirrors while applying my design.