with Trent Nesbitt
Stretch
tnesbitt@uoregon.edu
Materials: Maple & Shock Cord
Stretch seating is plain and simple. Held together by chunky lap joints and tensioned shock cord, these chairs come together quickly and easily. Named after the action required to assemble, Stretch can be taken apart to its three basic pieces.
What guided you through your process of designing Stretch?
Trent Nesbitt: Starting this project, my question was how can I create a non-traditional point of connection unique to furniture. This became pretty important as I got further from my initial vision. I regularly had to check in and see if ideas responded to the question.
Were there any lessons that you learned while finishing the project?
TN: I had to let go of countless ideas where there was one small problem I couldn't figure out a solution for, so this meant that I was frequently abandoning really good concepts for different ones. I felt like it was a really good practice in separating my emotions from the design process itself.
What was the biggest challenge you faced during this project?
TN: I think my biggest challenge was letting go of ideas that I had thought were really strong. Having to realize that nothing was really set in stone until I had a physical model in front of me where I saw everything working. I had to continue ideating and kind of trusting the process.
tnesbitt@uoregon.edu.
Trent Nesbitt
