A lawn chair that explores the intrinsic beauty and strength of lashings as joinery. This chair seeks to show that lashings can extend past the realm of pioneering and bushcraft.
An outdoor focused furniture piece which utilizes traditional materials and methods in new and interesting ways.
Mood Board
Ideations and renders
with this project, I wanted to focus on the function and aesthetics of rope.
Because of this, I chose to focus on how rope has been historically used in an orienteering setting.
To reinforce this, rattan and parachute chord were used in the creation of the chair as those are materials commonly used in the backcountry.
square lashings, shear lashings, and diagonal lashings were used.
Below are the lashings and weavings used
