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- Meeting/Program Schedule (John Kriegshauser)
September 13 Meeting— INDIA, A LAND WITHOUT FURNITURE a slide show and talk by Tor Faegre Though village India appears to lack much of what we call furniture, a closer look reveals a rich and ancient tradition of woven furniture--chairs, beds, bolsters---as well as built-ins of mud, straw and stone. Pictures of the furniture, the artisans and examples of my own work inspired by these. Based on a series of trips to India in search of traditional crafts. Oct. 11—Ancient Wood From New Zealand.
Many of us have seen the ads for the lumber produced from ancient logs,
some 50,000 years old, which have been harvested from a peat bog in New
Zealand. Art Teisberg of Ancient Wood, who is distributing this material
in North America will tell the story of this lumber, show pictures of
the operation and samples of the lumber. Nov. 15—Bruce Tharp, who designed the Bone Lamp, made from PVC plastic, which got so much recognition at the Sustainable Furniture Show, will make a presentation of his work. Bruce is rapidly making a name for himself as a designer. He is new to the CFDA. It will be good to get to know both him and the work he has done beyond the Bone Lamp. Execute Board Election Coming up in September is the election of the
Executive Board. The CFDA
members elect our ten member Executive Board, which in turn selects the
CFDA officers. Currently
the Board members are: Antanas
Abraitis, Jeff Miller, Sean Scott, Lee Weitzman, Lloyd Natof, John
Kriegshauser, Helen-Maria Nugent, Maxine Snyder, Burt Engelberg and
Pradeep Shimpi. Many of
these members will want to serve again, but they will have to stand for
reelection. Others
will step down creating automatic vacancies.
If you are interested in serving on the Board please contact John
Kriegshauser, so your name can be placed in nomination. |
CFDA August 9, 2005 - Membership Meeting Report
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Minutes : CFDA MEETING August
9, 2005 Members present:
Old Business: A request for information re the
specific pieces selected for the Saslow Show will be forwarded to John
Sirovatka . The dates and methods available for
breakdown of the Sustainability Show at the Cultural Center were
discussed. It will be possible to take things out of the CC during the
week after 8/14, but John Kriegshauser will send out an email to get
names and preferred dates so as to alert the CC Security staff. The
major effort will occur on 8/21 at which time we willl have a truck to
take both furniture pieces and platforms. Anyone who is able and willing
to take and use or store one or more platforms should do so. Elections:
It was noted that the list of members
needs to be updated. New Business: The program for the evening was
presented by John Kriegshauser on the use of models as well as sketches,
drawings, and renderings. A number of models for chairs and tables were
shown and the relative merits of models versus drawings were discussed.
Models are of value as a supplement to and clarification of problems
that may or may not show up in drawings. Models help to bring out
structural factors such as strength, rigidity, and feasibility. They may
help clients to visualize and resolve doubts. John also emphasized that
there must be clarity in the question the model is intended to solve. Sean Scott presented his experience
with model buildirrg and the use computer programs to both draw and also
create renderings that provide models in virtual reality suitable for
photography. He also pointed out that it is important to scale the model
on the piece of material that is a given ( such as the thickness of the
glass to be used for the model’s table top). Robert Frazier presented a model
designed to provide a joint with equal strength in three dimensions, or
directions, which then served as the basis for design of a matrix
construction. The meeting adjourned at 8:30.. Tor
Faegre announced that he would present the program at the next meeting on
the furniture of India, a society that essentially lives on the ground. Respectfully submitted
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