Qiuyu Xu

The practicality of this chair will not diminish by defects, it can be used as normal furniture in the home. They're not abstract installation, it would be worth keeping the idea of them being functional for now and only transforming them into purely decorative if the concept requires it. But it has the value of going beyond chairs, which is to be able to motivate people all the time that don't forget the properties of wood itself in the process of mass production of assembly lines.

The material used to make this chair is black walnut, which were gathering by myself from furniture factory's warehouse for free due to their fatal breakage. I personally reorganized them in the workshop, drawing on George Nakashima's precedent and upgraded his ideas. I stitched together two small broken planks that are most common in Chinese furniture factories to make the most of them as chair's body. I use the most traditional Chinese mortise and tenon technique to connect them rather than screws. I took ergonomics into account and even if there is a crack like The East African Rift Valley, it will not affect use.

I'm embracing my inner nerd and posting about wood joinery. More specifically about Butterfly Joints. This type of joint can hold two separate planks of wood together. But what I really like is when it is used, in furniture or flooring, to lock natural cracks on a single plank and avoid it's further opening. The butterflies are usual of a contrasting wood or of a different material.

Timber has played a key role in the construction industry for many years. And while it’s always been a popular material, the process of how and where it arrives from is often overlooked. The Journey of how I made this chair is a lovely wedding, every step is equally important to shape of product's characteristics.
It is important to determine the design according to the wood itself, which is an important way to preserve the soul of the wood. I personally touch the surface of the wood and feel their temperature, which was a direct way to get intuitively to the depths of the wood.