Saw this recently on the 1stdibs.com web site reently, and modeled it today as a way to avoid some real work. The original, called the Ever-Hold Automatic Adjustable Stool, dates from the 1930s. It's mostly wood, including the thick column that holds the adjustable post. My model is a little stylized; I did't model every screw and bolt. And I think the legs still need some work. There must be some sort of spring-loaded pawl inside the green post to hold the seat at a given height, but the images I had gsve me no clue about how the seat adjusts.
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dh

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I like Dave R's suggestions. I'd do things a little differently, though. Like Dave said, everything looks a little too heavy. So I'd change the inner curve of the legs to make them thinner. I'd do the skirt as one piece, bricklaying pieces of secondary wood, using a router to make it circular, and veneering the outer face at the end. I'd also enlarge the top a bit: If you continue the outside curve of the leg, the top meets it. The legs wouldn't be notched over the skirt; instead, I'd cut dovetails on the inside of the skirt and fit the legs in them.
Finally, since this looks like an occasional table, it probably won't have to support lots of weight or withstand lots of force. So I'd omit stretchers.
Hope this helps.
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dh

Great collection.

Thank you, Alvis.

Nice work, as always, Dave. (And thanks for the compliment on my Hans Wegner chair.)
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dh

Wolfarelli,
I'm sorry, but ink-on-paper is the only version of the book. No digital version, I'm afraid.
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dh

Spent the day avoiding real work and finishing my model of the Hans Wegner round chair. Used Solid tools where the stretchers join the legs, but I didn't try to model the mortise-and-tenon joinery. Life is too short. The bottom edge of the backrest looks a little too pointy, but I don't have the energy to tweak it again. Couldn't have done this model without a slew of plugins: Loft Along Path, True Bend (my new favorite), and Round Corner.
The render is a quickie with Shaderlight.
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dh

Making progress. Actually, I had to start from scratch because I hadn't scaled the first image of the working drawing properly. It was way easier to start fresh than to try to fix the first model. I'm glad I did, because I like the appearance of the new arm/backrest better. I'm hopeful that the front and rear stretchers and the seat will be easy to add.
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dh

This isn't much to look at now, but I'm hopeful that will soon become a model of The Chair, one of the best-known pieces of Danish Modern furniture out there. Hans Wegner designed it in 1949, and I believe it's still in production today. The chair is also nicknamed The Kennedy Chair because JFK and Richard Nixon sat in them for the first presidential debates, in 1960.
The chair is all organic shapes--the continuous arms and backrest make a single fluid shape. The stretchers and stringers are all curved--the front stretcher is both curved and bowed. There are plenty of images on the Internet to guide me, including what must be a working drawing that Wegner produced.
I decided to model The Chair because I wanted a real challenge for my 500th model in the 3D Warehouse. The arm and backrest obviously represent the greatest challenge. I decided to use Fredo6's Loft Along Path, placing various shapes along the path. There are other plugins I could have used, but I'm too cheap to buy them. If I can get the arm and backrest right (or mostly right), the rest of the model should be easy. Stay tuned.
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dh

L i am nailed it.

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Thanks, Charlie. I've seen several versions of a chair like this, but the one on 1stdibs.com was the first with enough dimensions for me to use.
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dh

Just finished a model of a Regency "metamorphic" library chair. The top section flips over, so the piece becomes a stepstool. According to info on the 1stdibs.com web site, the original was made in England, from mahogany, in about 1810. No joinery in the model--the reeding and the backrests were enough work for now. The image is a quick and dirty render in Shaderlight.
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dh

Cool piece, beautiful woods, great model.
dh

Thank you, tuna.
dh

Thank you, sir. I had to guess about the interior drawer supports. The design of that center drawer complicated matters.
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dh

Two English designers created this Arts & Crafts desk for Winston Churchill's weekend house, Chartwell, in 1922. It's all pretty straightforward, except for that odd center drawer. Could that be where Winston kept his cigars? His secret stash of brandy?
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dh

Thanks, gentlemen. I suppose I could look for a glow-in-the-dark texture to make the table Mme. Curie's.