The Design Process Behind HAYCHE?s WW Chair
London-based HAYCHE takes us inside to see how the Windsor-like design came about.
London-based HAYCHE released the WW Chair a few years ago and we thought it was time to revisit the modern Windsor design to see how it was made. Designed by Alejandro Villarreal, the chair features a solid wood seat resting atop four tapered legs, with a series of wire spindles that rise from the underside to join the wooden bar backrest. The WW Chair, where the first ‘W’ stands for Windsor and the second for Wire, originally came in just oak and walnut, but was later released in a variety of bold colorways. For this month’s Deconstruction, HAYCHE and Villarreal, take us inside to see how the design came about.
Villarreal?s working process starts manually: ?My design process always starts with a hand-drawn sketch, which I find intimate and very personal,? he says.
?After that, I share the sketch with my design team and we start the painstaking process of 3D modeling.? The design for the WW Chair took six months and three prototypes to get right. ?It was a very intuitive, iterative process,? says Villarreal.
The wooden parts of the chair are made from solid European oak or American walnut. The seat is partly CNC (computer numerically controlled) cut and partly hand carved, while the legs are milled using traditional machinery.
?Oak is my favourite wood and walnut brings a nice contrast and can be very beautiful as well,? says Villarreal. ?It also happens that b...
London-based HAYCHE released the WW Chair a few years ago and we thought it was time to revisit the modern Windsor design to see how it was made. Designed by Alejandro Villarreal, the chair features a solid wood seat resting atop four tapered legs, with a series of wire spindles that rise from the underside to join the wooden bar backrest. The WW Chair, where the first ‘W’ stands for Windsor and the second for Wire, originally came in just oak and walnut, but was later released in a variety of bold colorways. For this month’s Deconstruction, HAYCHE and Villarreal, take us inside to see how the design came about.
Villarreal?s working process starts manually: ?My design process always starts with a hand-drawn sketch, which I find intimate and very personal,? he says.
?After that, I share the sketch with my design team and we start the painstaking process of 3D modeling.? The design for the WW Chair took six months and three prototypes to get right. ?It was a very intuitive, iterative process,? says Villarreal.
The wooden parts of the chair are made from solid European oak or American walnut. The seat is partly CNC (computer numerically controlled) cut and partly hand carved, while the legs are milled using traditional machinery.
?Oak is my favourite wood and walnut brings a nice contrast and can be very beautiful as well,? says Villarreal. ?It also happens that b...
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