● PARRISH ANDRÉ● ABOUT● MORE

● Beetle Stick Chair

Framing nature


Many people have a collection of sticks, stones, shells and leaves that they’ve picked up along the way. It’s a natural urge to save these natural relics. They hold the memories of the lives they lived before us, and the moment they became part of our’s. 

This chair was born of one of those objects. 

































This stick etched by beetle larvae was on my shelf for years before I decided it should be a chair. I wanted it to serve a purpose for me the way it had for plants, animals and insects before me. 





● DESIGN


I went into the drawing process with a fairly developed idea of its construction. I wanted to frame it symetrically within the chair by creating two splits: one in the seatpan, one in the backrest. I explored profiles that would compliment the existing form of the stick. 
 






While drawing, I frequently made models to test structural integrity, and view it from different angles. 





























I constructed the plans for the proportions and construction of the chair, but left much of the aesthetic shaping to be decided during the fabrication.
 
Some things arn’t worth deciding until you can touch and see it at scale in wood. 








● FABRICATION



 



● FINAL RESULT