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Reed Hansuld's Outstanding Furniture Designs

This Brooklyn-based designer/builder's chairs will rock you

By Rain Noe - May 2, 2016

in Furniture Design

I just stumbled across Reed Hansuld's beautiful take on Hans Wegner's Valet Chair:

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Hansuld has gone with a more conventional four-legged design and an impossibly brave bridle joint to affix the back to the seat.

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Designer/builder Hansuld hails from Canada, is now based in Brooklyn, and is shockingly not even yet 30 years of age. Despite the tender years he's obviously got the experience, given his portfolio, and it's his Rocker No. 1 chair that really blows me away.

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It's not just that the form is gorgeous, with not a line or surface out of place. It's not just his impeccable grain selection, exposed fasteners or details like the exposed floating tenon joinery. It's just so gorgeously airy.

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As with the Valet Chair, the joinery seems too impossibly thin to support weight. But look closely at these photos and you'll see the elegantly-integrated steel skeleton that makes the whole thing work.

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For years Hansuld has maintained a blog where he detailed his struggles, successes, processes and the state of ongoing projects, but he stopped updating it last year. With any luck he'll start it up again. Until then, there's his Instagram.

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Kirk Boone

8 years ago

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I'm also greatly impressed by the Rocker No. 1. It's truly a great design, but I feel compelled to point out that is misses perfection by not having those screw heads countersunk - and they're not just anywhere, but on the seating surface. Ugg, so close.

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Tyson Brazille

8 years ago

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Dig the convenient features! Any extensive research involved while working on the rocker?

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