Carpentry for Beginners: Make Furniture with Wood and Leather

Overview

“For us, it is very important to design from the workshop, with our hands, take the ideas to the physical and finish defining them in contact with the material, to check how they are built. The key is not to make a division between design and craftsmanship. We want to tell you what a good design for Taller Piccolo is. Designing is much easier and more coherent if all the decisions are made in relation to a concept that unifies everything, and this concept is always based on the need to be resolved.”

In this video lesson Taller Piccolo addresses the topic: About Design, which is part of the Domestika online course: Carpentry for Beginners: Make Furniture with Wood and Leather. Craft your own chair out of simple materials by exploring carpentry techniques and learning to use tools like a hand-held milling machine.

Partial transcription of the video

“about design In this lesson I am going to talk about design. The first thing we must be clear about when talking about design is that designing is not making art. Design is to solve a problem, a problem that a client is communicating to you or, you are making it up yourself, just to use it as an excuse to design, but, after all, what you will do is solve a problem and that's it. For us, designing is a fairly intuitive process. We have been doing it for many years because, before starting the workshop, we worked as architects and there we also designed, but from a much more abstract perspect...”

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Course summary for: Carpentry for Beginners: Make Furniture with Wood and Leather

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (18)
• 1665 students
• 5 units
• 19 lessons (3h 33m)
• 13 downloads

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Arts & Crafts, DIY, Furniture Design & Making, Interior Design, Woodworking