Lewis Hunt : Week 9 tubular Chair

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            For my tubular chair design I drew a lot of influence from a bean bag.  Something that is very organic in shape and comfortable to sit in.  I wanted to create a chair form that would look very unique from different angles as well.
            For my building process I started out with a sphere.  I rebuilt the form and turned on the control points to manipulate it to get the curve that looked comfortable.  From here I used contour in the front window to get the curves that I wanted.  I then put a half inch pipe around these curves and then added two more pipes perpendicular to the curves to hold the whole form together.  I then used booleanunion to bring them all together.
             For the material I chose black aluminum.  I like this material because of the shine and strength it has.  With the shape that I chose it is crucial to have a material that is very stiff and strong.