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Exposure’s Pop up Shops for fashion label Edun latest collection.

Materials:Reclaimed Live Oak, Laminate, Strip L.E.D’s

 

Warren Techentin with Nima Payan. Birch rocking chair designed for “The Page ” exhibition at Chapman University, February 1-March 12, 2010.

Materials:Laminated Birch Plywood

 

20′ bamboo cabinet with surfaced drawer fronts and modular shevling unit

Materials:Bamboo, Painted MDF

 

Four poster bed designed for Pae White

Materials:White Solid Surface, Aluminum

 

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Materials:Walnut, Powder Coated Aluminum, Corian

We made a mini mock up of the cabinet.  we also figured out how to make the door fronts out of bamboo with the angled shape and did two tests on grain direction, one vertical and one horizontal.  The vertical is the strongest so I think we should go with that, plus it also communicates the shape much better.  We also did a mock up of the shelving system and how the hardware will be embedded into the shelves and mdf green wall.  We used a piece of scrap material to do it, so just know that this will be green and not the blackish wood that it is now. [ I put captions on the images below to explain things a in a bit more detail]

 

 

• new york magazine
• this ain’t no disco
• print magazine “New Visual Artists 2009″
  

Richard wanted the end product to have a pink, high gloss finish reminiscent of the high chromium stainless steel sculptures of  Jeff Koons without the cost. To achieve this finish meant the surface quality needed to be smooth. Much of our design process occurs during the machining, converting toolpath strategies into decorative elements leaving the residue of production on the piece. The result was tool chatter and embellished machine marks which aren’t necessarily smooth. We experimented with a series of thermoplastics to act as a protective skin molded over the surface. This skin could then be electroplated, turning it into chrome. This idea was problematic due to the deep draw of the surface, [over 4” in some sections]. Exploring other options, we found southern California artist, Gary Watson owner of Creations’n’Chrome, who developed a custom, sprayable chrome process that could replicate a chrome finish. We started over using a 6” thick block of high density polyurethane foam. This allowed for the entire door to be carved in one piece. After the machining, Gary began the chroming process. In order to chrome the doors, they couldn’t touch anything. This was another problem as doors were over 200 lbs. a piece. We solved this by engineering a rotisserie style jig that would not only suspend them but allow for rotation and ease of movement. After the doors were chromed, Gary finished the doors with a high gloss urethane topcoat, [used in the car industry] tinted with a candy magenta to achieve the final effect.

 

This project started as collaborative dialogue with Richard Christiansen from Chandelier Creative. The initial concept was loosely based on “the gates of hell”, a sculptural work of Rodin, mixed with Richards key words of “dildos and doll parts“.  We wanted the doors to reflect Chandelier Creatives’ unconventional style as taste makers by creating an electronic baroque, fusing franchise capitalism with moviefantasies and exploring the relations between media and topological surface.
The front of the doors was created through a collision of media and technique. We gleaned our hard drives, harvesting bits and pieces of past projects sculpting the surface through digital collage. This allowed for an unusual balancing act where recycling  digital ready-mades lead to a reclaimed authorship and to the composing of new narratives developed out of over-saturated media.  The back of the doors we created by unfolding, [a sort of reverse digital origami] a 3-dimensional digital model of the head of  Star Wars hero Yoda, into a 2-dimensional pattern. We used the flat pattern to generate a decorative skin and thus discovered a  way of developing pattern and texture as the byproduct. The trim around the edges was based on blending the explicit sexuality  found in ancient Kama Sutra carvings filtered through the stylings’ of Victorian crown moldings.

 

These are a series of wood concept car models for the Peapod electric car  from the Arnell Group in New York.

 

 

Shirley Ting, founder and principal architect of Heko architecture firm, called us up to help her fill out an office space she was building for Grandway Asset Management in Pasadena, CA.  We worked to here to design and fabricate a book case that also served as sculpture.  The piece has two cantilevered shells split by a walnut shelf with embedded hardware that allows the attached bookends to slide and tighten down in order to hold the books on an angle.  The interior of the piece was patterned and pocketed to remove material to lighten the weight, then covered with  a semi-transparent acrylic inlay to allow just a  hint of the pattern to show through.
Materials:SHELL – lacquered MDF , SHELVES – walnut, BOOKENDS – powder-coated aluminum, custom Corian knobs and acrylic inlay.

Walnut and Corian Mirror

 

Marguerite is carved from black solid surface with an antique gold vein mirror inlay.