Sprout
Furniture Design
Lily Turner | Graduation Year: 2025
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lily-turner-4b671222b/
- Executed: 3rd Year
- Degree Path: Interior Architecture
- Course: Furniture Design I
- Materials: Poplar wood, Steel tubing, Montana Spray Paint, Wipe-on Polyurethane finish.
Sprout is my first venture into the physical construction of furniture pieces, meant to be a fun exercise in fabrication. It is a translation of a seedling with oversized and playful proportions. To further emphasize the proportions, Sprout uses cantilevered surfaces and minimal visible supports to give the table a fun, youthful energy. The metal stems hold the wood surfaces in two distinctly different ways to emphasize the various penetrating connections I used.
Various skills labs from my course taught me how to plasma cut and weld metal, as well as glue up boards and use machinery to cut wood in the Fabrication Lab. Due to a mistake which occurred while constructing my tabletop, I had to make a last-minute design change – the ‘bite’ mark cut into the top leaf. The cartoonish bite adds more to the playful energy which is imbued into the piece.
