The detail that caught me off guard is the brass L-nails hammered into the inner seat frame. The paper cord is secured by pulling it through those nail hooks, and paper templates guided the drilling and hammering. Anchoring a woven seat with hardware like that is not something I come across often, and it reads as a very deliberate touch.
The build itself is a proper bench journey. It began as a 3D model in CAD software, and the maker has said Google Sketchup was used for furniture without many curves. Joinery came off a Felder K 500 S sliding table saw, with a Festool Domino joiner, a hollow chisel mortiser, and a band saw in the mix. The curved sections were shaped with templates, curved-bottom hand planes, rasps, and files, after rough dimensioning, jointing, thickness planing, and table sawing.
The chair, titled 'The margin of a seat', is black walnut with straight square-profile legs and an asymmetrical, sculpted backrest and armrest structure. The seat frame holds natural Danish paper cord, wrapped around the rails using a wooden block and hammer and interlocked into a geometric pattern. After the frame was glued and dried, exposed tenon pegs were trimmed flush, and an amber-colored oil finish was wiped onto every surface with a sponge. The intersections show refined joinery details, and Order No. 04 ended up functional, shown holding a mug and magazine on the side ledge.
One open question for me: since Sketchup was named as the tool for furniture without many curves, and this piece is full of sculpted curves, I would love to know how those flowing forms were worked out in the drawing stage.
Project by Mu:reut furniture무릇 가구점. Watch it on their YouTube channel: