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lesson 4 · form lab · 6 minutes

a chair from a square

Marcel Breuer's club chair of 1925 fits inside a cube. its frame is one bent tube; its seat, back and arms are stretched bands. draw it as bars inside a square and you have understood it.

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the goal

draw a chair using only bars and one square of space.

the steps

  1. draw the squarethe chair lives inside a cube. start with its outline.
  2. add the frameone continuous line of bars: back, seat, front, base.
  3. add the bandsseat and back are bands stretched across the frame. one color for all of them.
  4. take one bar awaywhich bar can go before the chair stops being a chair?
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