Frank Wright Chair
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Thank you, Massimo, for sharing these!!
here's a little pp i did in a cute program called Toycamera Analogcolor.
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@dave r said:
Nice looking model and renders. My brother and I were discussing that very chair. He's seen the original which is made of cherry and is apparently very rough with screw heads sticking out all over the place. The backrest would be a difficult thing. 1/2" thick and unsupported over most of its length. It would cup like a soup bowl unless it was quarter sawn but quarter sawn cherry isn't very pretty.
Thanks for link, too.
I have never seen the original- how funny that it is so roughed up. I can't imagine the backrest would hold up to much; FLW was moving from architecture for people in a direction that has since taken many architects to a place where architecture itself is the formal end.
Thanks for looking
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@troyhome said:
Thank you, Massimo, for sharing these!!
here's a little pp i did in a cute program called Toycamera Analogcolor.Nice model. I like this Toycamera mood. Wonder if it's available for win (did not find it)...
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See- you model something and it teaches you more than you could have anticipated! Thanks for all the FLW lore and rendering insights
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@unknownuser said:
Give you give a little insight into your render?
Nothing special jsteacy. I've used the screen that comes with Troy's model, just adjusted a bit the chair's position. In this case was used only an HDRI called Dining room of the Ennis-Brown House rotated and tuned a bit in intensity. Rendered with TR1.
P.S. Btw, as you probably know, the Ennis-Brown House is by Frank Lloyd Wright!!!
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Massimo, thanks for the insight, as I am an aspiring renderer I wanted to see if I could create a similar image to yours. I hope you don't take it the wrong way. Then I took it a step farther and wanted to create a metallic version of the chair. It doesn't look as metallic as I was hoping but I like it either way. I used the arctic HDRi from that link you posted. Both rendered with Thea.
Troyhome, I agree with you, I didn't even model the chair and I've learned a few things.
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I prefer the first.
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I have to say I much prefer your 'metallic' version of the chair to the original design.
Nice work!
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I like the wood chair best but the design lends itself to steel, if you consider the chair's back. Either way, glad to see more experiments! I love seeing people get into rendering.
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Troy, I was surprised about the rough construction of the original pieces of furniture. My guess is they were built sort of as proofs of concept. I'd guess if sheetrock screws had existed at the time, he'd have used them.
From what I've read and seen, FLW was a great architect but not such a great engineer. I've heard that in preparation for a visit by House Beautiful or some other magazine to his house at Taliesin, he decided the bedroom wasn't big enough. He and his students tore out a load bearing wall and put on an addition. Evidently it wasn't long before the addition was all but falling off the house. They did a major restoration there a few years ago and fixing that addition was a major project.
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