SAM SHERMAN STUDIO
Sam Sherman is a furniture, lighting and object designer who creates work that is largely based at the intersection of precise craft and material experimentation.
Approach
His practice is grounded in traditional methods of fabrication, utilizing materials and processes such as metal, wood, mold making and digital fabrication which create a platform for him to research and work in combination with experimental materials and processes such as bio-materials, composite casting, unconventional metalworking techniques and more. Sherman’s experimental work is largely informed by his deep knowledge of traditional craft and manufacturing methods, and focuses on pushing or bending the rules of these materials and processes.
FEATURED PRODUCTS
F-Chair by Sam Sherman Studio
Materials: Aluminum plate, Hard maple, Steel hardware
The F-Chair was designed revolving around an urge to play with the language of aluminum square tubing. Working on a previous project, I had encountered a bend radius that was too tight to bend out of stock square tubing so the solution was to fabricate these bend sections out of flat plate. Two face profiles and bent flat bar for the walls, cut, bent, welded, and ground.
This process inspired me to consider the possibilities of that process, to sort of mimick the language of square tubing but have new possibilities in terms of radii, joinery and shape. The Joints in the F-Chair are designed to exist in the realm of aluminum square tubing but sort of bend and break the rules of physical possibility within this material to create a unique, novel language of details.