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Fold it
I seem to be seeing a lot of foldable chairs these days. Not sure why. They pop up in cool places around me and land in my inspiration folder on a near-daily basis. So here is my take on it: Two new chairs in the warehouse. The SE-18, above, is cheap and ubiquitous in architect ...
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“European Loft” hits the Warehouse
After a lot of cleaning and tweaking, I have now put my second full scene up for sale in the warehouse. “European Loft”, like “Chicago Loft“, is based on existing architecture; in this case on a conversion of a burlesque theatre by Piero Lissoni. And like “Chicago Loft”, it is a minimalist space, with a ...
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Eames Photoshoot
Here is a short series of images I’d been keeping under wraps. My original idea was to create small tutorials focused on the various materials used in the scene and to release these together with the images. However, since Australian online decoration magazine EST has done me the honour of publishing a feature on these, ...
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New Canaan
These days, I only seem to produce unfinished personal pieces. This one is based on Hodgson House, a private home by Philip Johnson.
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Chicago Loft (full scene)
Over the past few months, several people who had bought my furniture on Turbosquid asked whether I would consider putting a full scene up for sale. So when I recently revisited an older piece, loosely based on a Chicago interior by Studio Gang Architects, I thought it would make a nice, self-contained interior scene to ...
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CGSkies open for business
I’ve had many questions in the past year or so about the skies I’ve been using in my scenes. For a long time, I wasn’t at liberty to say much about them. No longer. I’m happy to report that Marcel Vijfwinkel, the man behind the enormously popular CGTextures.com, and his accomplice Wojtek Starak have now ...
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Scantling lamp (and some fun with IK chains)
I didn’t think I would ever have rigged models in my archive, but when I set out to rebuild Mathias Hahn’s wonderful Scantling Lamp for Marset in Max, I just could not bear the thought of having to pose it by fiddling with its three axes and its pesky wires. The solution: a simple IK ...
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Vintage herringbone parquet tutorial and free (!) maps
A few people got back to me following my recent Tolix chair post to enquire about the parquet. Normally, I would use the Floor Generator plugin from cg-source to create all sorts of parquets. But this won’t do for the herringbone type. Below is a step-by-step tutorial about how I created a slightly simplified version ...
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Tolix Chairs and Stools (remastered)
Quite a while ago, I modelled the A and A56 chairs by Tolix and put them up on Turbosquid. They have since been among my best-sellers. Yet I couldn’t help feel like these old Blender models were, well, not really up to scratch, lacking fine details and generally showing their age. So since I had ...
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Hans Wegner forever
Assiduous readers of these pages know of my unhealthy obsession with Hans Wegner, father of the wishbone chair and other memorable icons of Scandinavian furniture design. I had to model the China chair and bench (the PP Møbler ones) recently and decided to add a few more models on top. Check the rest of the ...
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Wassily chair
I’ve been (re)visiting the Bauhaus era for a project I’m working on at the moment and was in urgent need of a highly detailed Wassily chair. There are many versions of this chair around on model marketplaces but, strangely enough, none with the kind of detail I was after. So I took a day during ...
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Chair attack
I confess to neglecting my blogging duties of late. But I haven’t been entirely idle, as evidenced by this small series of chairs, all of which have now landed in the warehouse. These include the wonderfully James-Bondesque 1964 Karuselli chair (below) by Yrjö Kukkapuro for Avarte; Jerszy Seymour’s 2004 Easy Chair (Magis); Chair One (in ...
