Lamppost Chair — Tommy O'Halleran

Furniture design | student work| 2019

With companies like Getaway offering one room, studio-like cozy cabins in remote and off-the-grid locations, the tiny house/van life/digital nomad lifestyle has grown in great popularity with many young people in recent years.

With this chair, I was interested in tapping into this demographic and designing a multifunctional piece of furniture to fit the environment of a tiny house cabin.

Plywood shelf is screwed onto street brackets on frame

Notch is machine out from one of the legs to channel lamp wire

Lamp post rotates 360°

Custom pipe fittings were 3D printed

Assembly Book

Technical Drawings

Exploded View

Orthographic view

The final design is a multifunctional, utilitarian chair that takes advantage of vertical space.

The simple forms and raw materials are inspire by industrial modern styles, to fit the environment of an outdoor woodsy, handmade tiny cabin. Materials are true and honest, connections are exposed, and nothing is hidden. Lastly, the design is composed of a kit of preassembled parts that are made to be lightweight, moveable and ready to assembly.