Devika Shah

This chair is entirely inspired from the form of this historic tree, The Krishna Fig.

The butter cup flower, from the tree.

Apart from studying the history, I started iterating the design that dealt a lot with the angles and the visual colorfulness of the tree.

Idea was to extract the required branches that hold the tree ( personification , reduce the mass for the design ), and create faces with befitting comfort and combine to make a holding piece (chair).

It took time to reiterate the angular chair form, to know the right measurements and be very sure of using particular angles for the back and the seat. 135 degree is the ideal angle of comfort for a recliner, but it was difficult to research about the angles while dividing the back structure.

Had to delete a lot of wooden pieces to develop a comforting look for the design. Taking visualization help from Rhino.

The chair look when upside down.

The entire structure was carved out of a wooden piece of 8 by 4 feet. The depth was 1 inch and it spread almost 900 mm.

After sanding the wood, use of colors, mainly yellow to give the “Lord Krishna “ resemblance.

Chopping off the nails to fit in the thickness of wood and the L shaped metal rods that hold the entire structure together.

Sanding the sides according to the befitting angles.

Putting together the piece was the most difficult task because one person had to constantly carry either the heavy back rest or the seat to attach the triangles with the L shaped joint. Thankfully I had Mr. Prasad who took quite an interest in the Design and helped me throughout the 3 months. First few weeks went into bringing the pieces together, sanding that got me bad cold but eventually I got immune to saw dust. Working at the workshop made me understand the design very attentively.

Even with the software model and all the calculations I had my doubts for the chair but help of our workshop tools and faculty, Mr. Prasad, it was ready. Its a heavy chair but very relaxing. This chair still rests in Srishti providing students working in the workshop with a good sleep.