Posts made by davidheim1

Thanks, as always, Dave.

Finished.

Thank you, tuna. You're right about the render.

The curved lines in the model follow the high parts of the hammered copper. I use the Select tool to highlight a section (see the red shape) and make it a component. Then I move the shape away from the model, Push/Pull it to 1/2 in. thick, add curves to transition from high spot to low spot, and erase the unwanted lines. You can see the resulting shape above the model at the left. The lofting plugin is called Skinning of Shapes; I just highlight all the edges and click a couple of times to generate the curved face. Then I jockey the curved face into position in the model. Lather rinse repeat.
Turns out to be much easier than I thought it would be. When I'm done with the individual sections, I'll probably explode everything for one of the doors (there are 3 in all) and remake it as a single component.
Hope this helps.
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dh

Saw a contemporary 3-door cabinet by the designer Robert Kuo on the 1stdibs.com web site. The cabinet casework is pretty ordinary. But the doors are another matter. They're covered in hammered copper, with curves flowing from one door to another. For the model, I've broken down the copper work into a collection of components, which I shape with one of Fredo6's lofting plugins. I grabbed the copper texture from the Internet.
Enjoy.
dh

Super.

Nice work,tuna. Glad to see you back.

Thanks for the good words, everyone. Here's a stack of mugs.
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dh

The building process is a good learning experience.

The way having shingles is a good medical experience?
Boats have too many curves for me.

Very cool. Looks to be better than a horizontal mortiser or an X-Y-Z contraption.

Besides the notorious subway map and a slew of furniture, the Vignellis also designed a line of stacking plastic dinnerware for Heller. You'll recognize it.
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dh

Thought I'd post something, since the forum has been quiet for a while. Too much social distancing, I think.
Saw this on the 1stdibs.com web site the other day. It's a modular dining set by the noted designer Leila Vignelli, created in the mid-sixties. The original is made of lacquered wood, and the cushions are covered in cognac leather.
Vignelli, and her husband Massimo, are two of my favorite designers. Among many other things, they designed a route map for the New York City subways, which was widely criticized. But I always liked it.
Enjoy.
dh

Thanks, emmetbrakus. I usually relish a challenge, but modeling the music stand quickly became a pain.

Wendell Castle, in my view, is a case study in failing upward. His pieces don't work as furniture or as sculpture, yet because of Castle's flair for self-promotion, they sell for thousands.

The Roubo will turn John White's bench into kindling for sure!

That Roubo bench (top right, with Benchcrafted hardware) is gonna crush whatever it's sitting on.

You're going all Ansel Adams on us, Dave.

Thanks, Dave. Ditto your model of the Gimson Chest.
dh

There haven't been any postings to this forum for a while, so I thought I'd remedy that with a couple of models I recently completed. The larger cabinet is a wardrobe designed by the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen in the '20s. (Saarinen, father of the famed architect Eero Saarinen, was for many years the head of the Cranbrook Academy, an influential art and design school in Michigan.) The original uses panels of birch root on the doors; it also has two sculptures tucked into recesses in the front legs.
The smaller piece is a cabinet-on-stand that Carl Malmsten designed in the '60s. Malmsten, an influential Swedish designer, also ran a couple of woodworking schools.
The Malmsten piece screams Scandinavian Modern. I think the Saarinen piece is more interesting, and I wish he were better known these days.
Enjoy.
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dh

Thanks, david.

Yeah, a fat boy. And yeah, the fan is different in the model; it was as close as I could come.