Untitled Personal Project
Personal collaborative project created by Nicole Harker, Preston King, Laura Jung, and Ainsley Wood. One set, no character short non-narrative project showcasing a visual story within our absent character's living room, set in a Chicago apartment in the 90's. Currently in the early stages of model and set making.
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Folding Chair
This folding chair was made to accompany a folding table that acts as our characters workstation/center of operations. As someone who cares little for tasteful furnishings and would rather spend his money elsewhere, he uses his trustworthy folding furniture. The chair is modeled after a style of folding chair seen often between the 60s-70s, where the back is floating instead of fully attached to the frame as the ones we know now are.
The entire frame and legs of the chair were made out of brass rod and tube, with the smaller pieces to hold the back plate soldered onto the frame. The back plate and seat were made from vacu-formed styrene, with both cushions made from propoxy sculpted to the curves of the seat/back forms, and given the shape of the cushion, then covered with vinyl.
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Desk Lamp
Although our character doesn't care much for the main furnishings that would consider him to be a "put together adult," he has certain quirks when it comes to technology and the like. This desk lamp was modeled after a gooseneck lamp by Lightolier, which would have been manufactured around the mid to late 60's.
To achieve a bendable gooseneck for the model, small ribbed tube was taken from an existing posable reading light. The lampshade was cut from a brass tube, with each slit in the top cut by jewlers saw. The ends were soldered sheet brass, and were soldered with more smaller tube to make the connection fit the gooseneck. A lightbulb was made from thick fiber optic cable, rounded at the end, and the lampshade was built to fit over a mini LED bulb which would be ran through the base and up the neck. The base was made from styrene and acrylic with a hole lasercut into it to fit the bottom (also brass) tube into it.
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