Sunday, February 28, 2010

Fine Tune the Heavy Chair

The Heavy Chair is ready to move from the pencil to the computer. In the past, I began to build any piece by drawing the front and side full size views on a big piece of paper and taping it to the wall to get a sense of scale. Now, I find it much easier to produce a three-dimensional drawing in Google Sketch Up.
The program is free, intuitive and fast, and it allows me to see my ideas from all angles. Plus, if the piece has complicated bends and intersections, I can obtain important measurements and angles directly from the Sketch Up drawing. After viewing the Heavy Chair in three dimensions, I made some alterations, angling the seat and tilting the back rest to the rear about three degrees.
Now that I'm settled on the renderings, I've begun working on the CAD drawing, so that I can have the body CNC-milled from a singular raw-steel plate.
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Kenon Perry is an artist first and a carpenter second. He believes if a piece isn't thoughtfully designed, lines to limbs, then no one will notice whether its assembled with a tongue-and-groove joint or a dove tail, whether the wood is wenge or ipé. Perry was born in east Texas with a God-given ability to build things, spending the bulk of his Waco boyhood drawing, fabricating, or thinking about drawing or fabricating. He then honed these raw talents at the prestigious University of North Texas art school, studying sculpture, graphic design, and history. Perry has since moved to Brooklyn NY. I love what I do and sometimes it even loves me back. Icon custom furniture crafts heirloom-quality furniture and cabinets for clients who recognize fine materials and superb construction practices. Our company was founded and is run by an artist and that is evident in our work, both the creative process and the end result. If you can't build it, we will. If you can't dream it, we can do that, too.