A lounge chair centered around the combination of high-end fashion and primitive Scandinavian Vikings
Year
Fall 2022
Role
Furniture Designer
Deliverables
Chose to derive inspiration originating from one of the three design attributes including Structure/Material, Function/Use, or Appearance/Form. Take this origin of inspiration and create a lounge chair, barstool, or dining chair.
Free Folk is a lounge chair that is built using black India-inked stained Alder, rope, natural sheepskin fur, and leather bolster pillow. This piece is designed to serve as a side lounge chair that warms and relaxes the user through textiles and reclination. During ideation, we watched an inspirational design video led by Virgil Abloh where he discusses this design approach that derives from combining two things that traditionally wouldn’t be associated with one another to develop unique ideas. With this new approach in mind, the design originates from the characteristics of high-end fashion textiles and inspiration from primitive Scandanvnian Viking aesthetics. Over 100 hours were dedicated to this project from the ideation phase to completion.
