Intro to Chair Making

Scandi Modern Lounge Chair

If you have not yet tackled building a chair, it is a great introduction. We will meld both project work and establish a fundamental understanding of chair making.

The project is a clean-lined Scandi Modern-inspired folding lounge chair and ottoman with a woven seat and back.   Depending on the material you use for the webbing this could be an interior or exterior chair.

We will shape and construct all of the wooden components using a combination of hand and power tools and weave the seat and back out of a material of your choice.   

Key Learning Points

You will learn about:

• Geometry and ergonomics are behind what makes certain chairs comfortable and others not
• Danish Modern furniture movement as a whole and its profound impact on so much of the furniture we interact with today
• Using templates to create &  pattern route multiple matching chair components
• Cutting joinery for pieces that contain angles or curves
• Cutting mortise and tenon joints
• Seat weaving
  

Skill Level:  Some familiarity with routers, a bandsaw, and general woodworking equipment would be ideal. We recommend our Beginning Woodwork Class. 

You will be on your feet most of the class, moving around to different tools and working at their workbench. There will be some repetitive fine motor tasks such as weaving the seats and backs.  

TOOLS NEEDED :  

MATERIALS:  You will need to bring approximately 200 ft of webbing of your choice.  This could be leather strapping, nylon, or canvas – minimum of 1″ wide. 

SHIPPING HOME:  Can be arranged