Furniture design
Pino
I have noticed a lack of practical and visually appealing furniture for storing shoes. My idea was to design a furniture that you can modify according to your needs and available space of the room. Another important aspect was to be able to store your shoes regardless of the size or the model of the shoe. The concept is that the customer can choose the number of modules
and shelves, with or without doors and the
colour of the modules.
An important detail is that the modules can be locked together with a bow-shaped wooden piece, which fits into the slots on the sides to make the modules stick together and to make the complete furniture more stable. The same idea is applied on the leg components, which gives a possibility to rearrange the modules so that the leg components will fit any chosen module combination. Another way to use the slots is to hang your keys on the side of the module, using the same bow-shaped wooden piece as a keychain.
I named my furniture Pino, which is the Finnish word for pile, because of its great stacking possibility. During the course in furniture design I built a first prototype of Pino. It was a very essential phase of the design process and very enlightening to build the furniture I had designed.
All photos: Santeri Jutila.
3D sketches of different ways of putting the modules together.
Makeover of a Chair
This was an optional course that I thought would be fun and it was. All the participants got an old chair and had to use the material of the chair to build something new out of it. This was an intensive course, quite at the beginning we made a plan and a sketch for the new furniture. I decided to make a side table by using the chair´s legs almost as they were, putting them together as a cross. Naturally they needed a little fixing. But the biggest job was to create the surface of the table. I sawed the chair into small pieces and glued them together to make the table surface. You can see the old treenails in the surface, because I wanted to show that it´s actually made out of recycled materials. It was inspirational to see what the other students made during this course. Even if we all had identic chairs to work with, we made really different furniture and designs. At the end of the course we had a small exhibition at school.
Photos from the exhibition and of the original chair.
Coat Rack
We had a workshop course with wood and
metal and as a group project we made different
elements for our classroom. My group made a coat rack. We wanted the rack to have a
graphic form and we came up with this idea about hexagons that will give a three-dimensional
illusion. We had to place our coat rack on a narrow space, so it had to be quite flat against the wall. We used plywood as material and made the hooks out of metal.