real chairs
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01
SKIN CHAIR
I found this steel frame while walking down franklin on a sunday. I immediately thought of the leather scraps that lived on the top shelf of my closet. They had moved with me to mexico in 2019, miami in 2020 and tumultuously back to brooklyn in the spring of 2021.
They were from a project I worked on for a chair design class while I was at Parsons. I didn’t have any concrete plans about what I wanted to do with them, but for some reason, I considered them important enough to deserve a spot in the limited space in my luggage as I moved around to different cities. Hoping to make use of them someday.
They have marks and are stained. They have spent years tucked away in the darkest corners of each of my apartments.
I thought of photoshopping the irregularities, but they reminded me to much of my skin.
They were from a project I worked on for a chair design class while I was at Parsons. I didn’t have any concrete plans about what I wanted to do with them, but for some reason, I considered them important enough to deserve a spot in the limited space in my luggage as I moved around to different cities. Hoping to make use of them someday.
They have marks and are stained. They have spent years tucked away in the darkest corners of each of my apartments.
I thought of photoshopping the irregularities, but they reminded me to much of my skin.
02
ENTRECRUZADAS
Below is the other chair I’m talking about—the one that left me with scraps to carry around.
Made from walnut and vegetable tanned leather. I named it Entrecruzadas—a Spanish word meaning “intersection” or “crossroads.” The name is representative of its joinery, which is an intersection of lap joints that uses no mechanical adhesives.
03
CIERRE LAS PIERNAS
and guess what—another chair!!!
As a woman and one who went to an all-girls Catholic school, the frustration that comes from being told to “sit with your legs closed” has haunted me since childhood. Cierre las Piernas is a desk for ladies who take pride in sitting with their legs spread wide open.
As a woman and one who went to an all-girls Catholic school, the frustration that comes from being told to “sit with your legs closed” has haunted me since childhood. Cierre las Piernas is a desk for ladies who take pride in sitting with their legs spread wide open.
