joe will love it, david g's head will explode

[Paul Pless]

george nakashima

[birlinn]

Re: joe will love it, david g's head will explode

Designed for lightweight Japanese, not heavyweight Americans?
At a mere (!) 196 lbs, I wouldn't dare sit on it.

[Joe (SoCal)]

Re: joe will love it, david g's head will explode

Designed for lightweight Japanese, not heavyweight Americans?
At a mere (!) 196 lbs, I wouldn't dare sit on it.

I love it and I think it can handle the weight no problem.

I once designed a chair with a 1" glass back the entire chair dimensions were exactly that of a Windsor chair, except made out of concrete, steel & glass. It was shown at Fullscale gallery in NYC and at the opening I would just sit down and slam my back into the class back and watch everyone gasp

[CWSmith]

Re: joe will love it, david g's head will explode

I don't think that's a good design for my fat ass (I mean for a grown man like me).

[SKIP KILPATRICK]

Re: joe will love it, david g's head will explode

I would be asking a lot of that chair!

[George Jung]

Re: joe will love it, david g's head will explode

Beautiful. What are the joints at the seat/back?

[Keith Wilson]

Re: joe will love it, david g's head will explode

Oh, you could make it work. Weld up two good hefty steel T-pieces, arms about a foot long, and hide 'em inside the joints. Better yet, two weldments with a vertical steel piece, a horizontal foot, and a bit sticking out into the seat. No problem. Wood's for appearance.

Seriously, if you're going to design something out of wood, consider the properties and limitations of the material. This is just self-indulgent showing off. (Mitter, mutter, grumble . . . )

[George Jung]

Re: joe will love it, david g's head will explode

Thanks for that, O&O!

[Dave Hadfield]

Re: joe will love it, david g's head will explode

Make a hammock-chair out of it!

[Durnik]

Re: joe will love it, david g's head will explode

Right, George?


and isn't every creation 'just showing off'?


If it were made of locust (iron wood or the like) - it might last a while, but considering I like to lean back (and am not 'zactly light), I can think of two diagonals that could fix that and look good.

and since he's already mixing curves and straights... flow the diagonals.

ah, well - looks good.

and yes, I am a heathen. (-:

[David G]

Re: joe will love it, david g's head will explode

Right, George?


and isn't every creation 'just showing off'?


If it were made of locust (iron wood or the like) - it might last a while, but considering I like to lean back (and am not 'zactly light), I can think of two diagonals that could fix that and look good.

and since he's already mixing curves and straights... flow the diagonals.

ah, well - looks good.

and yes, I am a heathen. (-:

Nope... it's not.


Pless - why would my head explode? Or was that a 'funny' request for feedback?

[Keith Wilson]

Re: joe will love it, david g's head will explode

and isn't every creation 'just showing off'?

No. Or at least most of them have a better balance of showing off and respect for the laws of physics.

OTOH, Nakashima could probably make it work. More mortals, not so much.

[bluedog225]

Re: joe will love it, david g's head will explode

6439969[/URL]]I would be asking a lot of that chair!

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[Garth Jones]

Re: joe will love it, david g's head will explode

Designed for lightweight Japanese, not heavyweight Americans?
At a mere (!) 196 lbs, I wouldn't dare sit on it.

Nakashima was an American, and a fairly solid guy from photos of him. I've seen quite a bit of his furniture and it's really solidly built. He spent most of his career in eastern Pennsylvania so he was not designing for small Japanese folks.

[George Jung]

Re: joe will love it, david g's head will explode

well, I have some folks who would challenge this: