With my love for Making and experience with furniture design, I designed a lounge chair that other users could also share in the satisfaction of making, customizing and assembling their own chair, yet still have high quality aesthetics and ergonomics.  3D printing is the future of making.  Rather than searching the shelves, a 3D printer gives an individual the power to create and make what they need or desire. As with my previous furniture pieces, the mechanical connections of Chair 29 are celebrated rather than hidden from sight.  

To address the size limitations of 3D printers, the chair is assembled from 29 individually printed pieces.  Each part can be printed from a 12”x 10” x 10” printer bed.   My mission was to celebrate the qualities of 3D printing, rather than hiding them.  The programmatic goal was to create a comfortable and ergonomic lounge chair designed to accommodate the use of digital devices that can be printed by a consumer level 3D printer. To create an ergonomic chair for using digital devices (like a tablet), the chair has a pronounced lumbar support and high arm rests.  Organic and mechanical describe Chair 29’s silhouette.  The organic profile of Chair 29 is complemented with subtle angular lines of the legs and chamfered edges.  The 29 parts are fastened with stainless Allen head bolts, adding to the mechanical maker look.