Showcase Designs

ACe Award Winner 2019: Plane Waveform Coffee Table (small)

The original and ACe award-winning coffee table! The first in a series of Waveform furniture forms from coffee tables, dining table and even (comfortable!) trial dining chairs (final chair design in Dining Setting above).

The Waveform Shark Table and Lip Service Dining Chairs

The utterly unique Waveform Shark Table, with eight bespoke Lip Service Dining chairs. Vacuum-pressed compound curved Tas-Oak veneer legs for lightweight strength, paired with Blackwood ‘boogie-board’ backrest intends to inspire surfing memories of old! The shark profile is also compound-curved vacuum-pressed veneer. Tinted toughened Glass top. The central fin is magnetically located and instantly removable for daily practicality. The Waveform Lip Servers are visual connections to the breaking Lip of the wave, and finned ‘Boogie boards’ and provide comfortable seating for 8 persons.

Waveform Lip Servers Chairs - First Prototypes

The first Prototype Waveform Lip Server chairs: Vacuum-pressed compound-curved Tas-Oak veneer Waveform to serve as front legs and seat base, while Blackwood veneer ‘boogie-board’ serves as the back posture support and rear legs. Compound curved planes ensure strength lightness and rigidity, and permit enormous design freedom.

Waveform Lip Servers Chair - 2nd Prototype

The simplified prototype design of the Waveform Lip Service chair.

Waveform Lip Service Dining Chairs - 2nd Prototype

These are the 2nd Prototype Waveform Lip Service Dining chairs: Reimagined, Vacuum-pressed compound-curved Tas-Oak veneer Waveform to serve as front legs and seat base, while Blackwood veneer ‘boogie-board’ serves as the back posture support and rear legs. This simpler Waveform curve allows more elegance while remaining strong. ‘Water Fins’ were even added for comic reference to the surfing connection! (as in later Shark Table collection).

Plane Waveform

Plane Waveform Coffee Table: Vacuum-pressed single-plane curved veneer legs, re-capturing the sensation of breaking waves. joined with compound curved cross plane to ensure rigidity. Safety Glass top. Full view Waveform Coffee Table

Convex Waveform

Convex Waveform Coffee Table: Vacuum-pressed compound convex-curved veneer legs, re-capturing the sensation of breaking waves. joined with compound curved cross plane to ensure rigidity. Safety Glass top.

Concave Waveform

Concave Waveform Coffee Table: Vacuum-pressed compound concave-curved veneer legs, re-capturing the sensation of breaking waves. joined with compound curved cross plane to ensure rigidity. Safety Glass top

Preying Mantis Coffee/Dining Table

The Preying Mantis Coffee/Dining Table, in Dining Table setting. This is the highest setting of the table and allows dining for three people.

Mantis Dresser

The Mantis Four Bar linkage Dresser is totally unique. In place of otherwise mandatory traditional box construction, permanently ‘floating’ drawers unequal 4-bar linkages allow graceful arc motion, with anchorage only to a central spine. This allows unparalleled freedom of design.

Mantis Bedhead

The Mantis Bedhead is also utterly unique. Using Tasmanian Oak panels and paralleled unequal 4-bar linkages In place of traditional box drawers, permanently ‘floating’ drawers describe a graceful arc of motion – permanently floating with anchorage only to bedside panels. This allows unparalleled freedom of design.

Huon Pine Coffee Table

This is a corner coffee table, as part of a coffee table set. The table design is to be centred using similarly structured aluminium railed symmetrically deforming seating system (yet to be constructed) accommodated by a similar design

Skeletal Chair

The steam-bent variation of my original skeletal chair – the original being almost the first piece of furniture after barely surviving severe head injuries. The original was built in joined Tasmanian Oak, but this version uses steam-bent Myrtle frame and carved Huon Pine seat.