piątek, 23 grudnia 2011

Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman patents

With these photographs as a reference:

D.155273 - Design For a Chair
D.192799 - Upholstered Chair
D.193339 - Furniture Base
D.195244 - Textile Fabric
D.195246 - Tablecloth
RE.24964 - Furniture Frame Construction
2649136 - Furniture Shock Mount Construction
2667210 - Chair Construction with Resiliently Mounted Seat and Back
2697575 - Base Construction for Furniture
2738835 - Upholstery Pad
2767775 - Collapsible Sofa
2812800 - Multiple Seating Assembly
2813528 - Hypodermic Syringe
2893469 - Nesting Chair
2956618 - Chairs
2969831 - Side Flexing Shock Mount
2995762 - Appointments for Beds
3008764 - Chair
3009740 - Chair
3024068 - Demountable Furniture Web Construction
3027195 - Multi-piece Formed Furniture Construction
3027210 - Tensioned Web Furniture Construction
3032307 - Leg Structure for Furniture
3039727 - Bracket
3041109 - Web and Spreader Furniture Construction
3042978 - Storage
3043640 - Wall Mounted Veritcally Adjustable Desk
3043642 - Suspended Furniture
3046572 - Bed
3075235 - Hinge
3082036 - Chair Arm
3088127 - Dual Purpose Furniture Construction
3088178 - Connector
3109679 - Pad for Seating
3110534 - Drawer Stack
3114575 - Seating
3124390 - Seating Pad Attachment

sobota, 5 listopada 2011

Correct Isamo Noguchi coffee table model

Interior designers I hired have just proposed some first visualizations. One of the first thing I liked about them was using the Isamu Noguchi coffee table. Since in parallel I was trying do play with interior visualizations using the free Blender+Yafaray combo I tried to find quality models of this classic piece of furniture. Quite quickly I found the Herman Miller website listing of this table, which also provides 3d models for the items they sell. I downloaded it, converted to OBJ (using terrific BABEL3D service) and loaded it into Blender. All seemed fine until I found out that the model sported by Herman Miller staff is not quite what is being shown on the attached photos. The key is the legs alignment. The supplied model has them arranged perpendicular, whilst the photos suggest more acute angle. As it turned out I was right - the assembly instruction provided by the same Herman Miller shows very precisely that the legs are arranged with a 52-degree angle between them. So what is going on here you may ask ? As I did some more search there are two versions of the model present on the internet, free ones (probably based on the very same free model provided by Herman Miller) have perpendicular legs, the one you can only buy (e.g. on turbosquid, or here or here) have the legs arranged correctly. Weird... So what I did was I took the incorrect Herman Miller model, took the legs apart and arranged them just as they should be. The result, despite a freehand approach, proved to give quite a satisfactory result. I'll try to attach the rendering results soon, just as the used model. Stay tuned.