fish rocking chair

FISH ROCKING CHAIR

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Fish Rocking Chair

Fish chair detail

Fish Chair arm rest

Fish seat detail

Fish seat detail

Fish Chair header

Fish Rocker with stool

Billingsgate Fish Market

The story begins in London at 5am....

Fresh is best with fish

10 Fresh Sardines

Plaster life cast

You have to work FAST with fresh sardines

Wax poured into moulds

Wax cast fish

Chilling the castings in bucket of cold water

Clean and prep wax fish

Moulding with fish

Shaping the seat

Work station

Shaping the rockers

Shaping the legs

Rocker in wax

Seat ready to mould

Wax seat ready to be encased in plaster.

Wax legs on tree

Wax head rest

Plaster moulds

Furnace

Lifting the crucible

Pouring aluminium

Plaster mould cooling

Smashing the plaster

Seat broken out

Rockers broken out

Rockers clean up

Fine cleaning plaster

Seat cleaning

Aluminium components

Assembling the back

Assembly of chair

Consulting welder

Fixing rocker legs

Assembly

Aluminium welding

Aluminium welding

Aluminium welding

Unpolished chair + stool

40sitting on chair finishedresize_o

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An investigation into how far boundaries can be pushed in the foundry and also in how we build furniture.

The rocking chair is a one off sculpture, fully functional and made entirely from life cast sardines in aluminum.
Dimensions: 110cm x 50cm x 65cm

Weight: 30 kg