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Starling Darling

I felt it necessary to explore and emulate nature’s beauty.  The Starling have many features that inspires the construction and the sustainable features of the chair.  Starlings are medium-sized song birds with triangular wings hence the inverted triangular shaped arms of the chair.  They have strong feet and their flight is strong and direct.  By mimicking this concept in the chair, it’s smaller than most accent chairs in size  

[3’10” H x 2’ 7” W x 1‘8” D] and unusual shaped arms and legs are stronger than most built chairs.  I consulted the bird’s skeletal system and applied the underlying design principles to shape, form, and construct a sustainable piece of furniture that can carry it’s weight for many years to come. 

Furniture has always found inspiration on the fashion runways, from color trends to fabrics to construction. The link between fashion design and furniture design is strong and everlasting.

Starling Darling is built for comfort; therefore, it is also equipped with mechanics that features some of today's most technological advances in bio-textiles and electronics.  Due to this blend of these extraordinary components, a great deal of thought has been placed in the analysis of kinetics, center of mass, and human comfort zones.  The back of the chair is motorized and reclines in the 3 most common positions for an adult.

 

The “Starling Darling” is designed to highlight that close relationship to fashion and to showcase its connection to nature.   It’s a perfect fusion

of high fashion, kinetics, and biomimicry!