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In this post, the panel above shows my cafe chair in its cafe environment. I have chosen the Brother Baba Budan which is a small cafe shop located in the CBD of Melbourne. The first thing that strikes you when you, walk into Brother Baba Budan, is the unusual decor. If you have not been there before, you cannot help but be struck by the image of tens of chairs suspended high from the ceiling. The environment of this cafe is one of a kind and it's design in a way has a similar feel to my cafe chair as well.
The above shows the finishing method which I used. The very first was sanding down the chair by using an electric sanding machine to clear off all the rough and sharp edges. The following is by spraying primer to the wood to avoid the wood from absorbing the paint spray. Finally once the primer is all dry, the final step is spraying the paint. This has to be down a few times to give the chair the proper finishing. In between the sprays, the chair is sanded to give the final outcome a smooth finishing.
This sketch was an early fast sketch/render to give me a feel of how the chair would look like before I proceeded to my next step. As shown, I have taken out the plywood seat and changed it into a more interesting design by usingthe 4 mm wire. By doing so, it makes the design of the chair more interesting.
In this post, I'll be showing the kinds of locking system that I thought of to lock the 6 sides of my chair together. I played around with the thickness of the plywood and 4mm wire mixing and matching to come up with a suitable locking system and came to a conclusion that the best way to go about my chair is to have 3 pieces of 5mm plywood stick together to give my chair the proper strength so that it would not break.
