DRAGON

The Dragon chaise-longue is the most technically complex work in my "Imagined Cretures" series.

It features a cantilevered seat which swings through 90º in a soft, smooth sweep - its motion constrained by a pair of gas-springs and dampers. The mounting bracket for the seat is fabricated in steel with brass bearings.

The seat beam was executed by English Longbow maker Neil Harrington, and uses 3 converging laminated timber springs to achieve its quirky counter-flexing properties.

The seat back is a tensile fabric membrane form, created by tight-lacing a leather "corset" onto the engineered timber chair frame.