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Bent Lamination in Seating


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Bent lamination represents a dramatic departure from most traditional fine woodworking. Rather than working within rectilinear geometry, you lean into the materiality of the wood and explore its natural strengths through curvature. Reference face is often non-existent, so cutting joinery requires some creative thinking and novel use of machinery and hand tools. Through sketching, model making and test pieces students rigorously develop a seating design unique to your personal style. The course culminates in building a full-scale, functional prototype that takes full advantage of bent lamination techniques both aesthetically and structurally.

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