QUILTED CHAIR
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 2022

My goal for this project was to create an object that would prompt a conversation about what works we traditionally consider worthy of the title 'industrial design'.

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To do this, I took a historically feminine craft method — quilting —and applied it to the body of a mass manufactured chair. By doing this, I intended to highlight the cultural connotations around the field of design. Namely, that often the more technical and manufacturing-focused parts of the field are regarded as serious and masculine, while the more graphic-focused, soft goods parts are reduced to hobbies and connotated with feminine interest.