David Yepez Studio - Raven Chair Blue
The first time I read Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven as a child, I was filled with macabre delight, and terror. spent countless hours imagining what the room he sat in looked like, how it felt, and how it smelled. My obsession to recreate the fantastic visions of that room resulted in this chair; an homage to my childhood fantasies.
The most striking feature of the Raven Chair is the claw feet. Drawing inspiration from the classic idea of the claw foot in furniture, I designed a more literal, anatomical raven claw. The feet were sketched hundreds of times on paper to transform a raven’s leg to a chair leg. Then a 3D model was built from which a 3D resin print was made, which was moulded and cast in bronze. The feet then give the chair a life of its own.
2019
30 x 42 x 30
Walnut, Brass plated steel, Upholstery: variable per request
