The Felted Plywood Chair blends traditional wet felting techniques with modern CNC technology and parametric design principles. The chair's core structure is created from flat CNC-routed plywood components arranged using sliceform techniques inspired by 19th-century German mathematicians. Wet felting is employed to wrap the plywood creating intricate 3D forms that cradle the body. The felt is strategically stretched and shrunk, akin to 3D knitted upholstery techniques, creating hyperbolic paraboloid esque forms to fit the rigid plywood structure. I am currently constructing lamps to test the fundamental technique and have begun the construction of the first chair prototype. Below the chair is dry-fit straight off the CNC.
