Christian McKenzie - Week 8: Chair

Entente is defined as a friendly informal alliance between to social parties. The name seemed appropriate, I couldn't think of something more friendly then the agreement between my ass and a chair and there are those asses that seem quite stately(pun intended). I was initially draw to a bell form for the legs, it evolved naturally from there. I imagine this chair in the waiting area of an office. With the office in mind, I made the base of the frame flat laterally for the ease of aligning multiple chairs in rows.
I drew my initial inspiration for my logo from the Volkswagen logo (http://www.vw.com/en.html).

Modeling I drew the curves, tubed them, extracted the isocurves, trimmed and then used blend surface. I made a Y joint where the back and the legs meet. I made the cushions by using the planar curve command, rebuilt the surface, adjusted the control points, then used the bend tool to make the cradling contour of the cushions.
 For my logo, I used the same process, but instead of bend I used the cage editing tool in the transform menu.

Materials I chose leather and anodized chrome. I feel that is frequently desired in offices. It is easily cleaned and it is durable.