CIRCLE STORY

This is the circle story and how they came to be.

While in college, I studied different furniture designers of the old time, Chippendale, Heft White, White Brothers; these are the valuable antiques of today. The furniture made by these designers and each of these pieces has design elements that were recognizable. Each had their specific, unique characteristics you would visibly see and recognize and you would see it in all their pieces and that’s how you could identify the pieces of furniture being Chippendale or Frank Lloyd Wright.

After studying the masters, I decided I wanted to come up with some type of unique look or idea or theme or some recognizable design element that would be sufficient of my designs, so history repeats itself. I started putting circles in every piece that I would make. I would try to incorporate an oak circle, patterns of circles, or repeated designs. There’s a formula to how I put the circles together. It is in proportion of thickness of the wood to the diameter of the hole and factors the size of the routered edge around the hole of the circles.

Circles have always been something that I’ve been drawn to. At a young age someone told me that Frank Lloyd Wright said, “ there’s nothing square about the human body and to me there’s nothing square about a circle” I just visualized a circle when I heard someone talk about Frank L. Wright.

When I was trying to figure out what was going to be significant about my designs, I was looking at some of the pieces that I produced in college and realize that the dining room table that I built was really my first piece that I incorporated circles in. At the time of the designing I did not have the idea that the circle was going to be my trademark or my recognizable style of design that is signature of my pieces of today.

Ever since then I have tried to incorporate circles into everything that I build if at all possible. Chad’s goal is to be one of the premier furniture designers of the turn of this century.