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As a sort of an honor for Saul I decided to bring this lounge chair to life, birthed from paper towel sketches, maturing to conceptual mixed media renderings on 11×17 marker paper, then finally becoming a ½ scale cardboard prototype.  This is just the way he would have wanted it – not an actual full scale working piece of furniture that would be used for actual lounging, no.  Knowing him, it would’ve just been cornered in his humble apartment to be used occasionally, prisoned in between mounds of his dirty laundry and boxes filled with kitchen appliances and photo albums he failed to unpack since his move into that place near two years ago.  I mean, Saul owns furniture and finds them useful.  His appreciation for them, however, was on a different level when they were displayed as downscaled models.

“They’re fucking adorable man,” Saul said about my furniture prototypes.  This was always an honor for me to hear from him, no matter how many times he said it, and he said it a lot.  He never even used the word “adorable” to describe playful newborn babies.”
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This is from an unfinished project (a novel, yes you read that right) I started several years ago that I need to really be more serious about completing.  Even with the amount of work I do, there’s too much time in a day for me to ignore things like this – things that make me, me.

As a sort of jump start for myself I dug into my other sides of design and film and provided a short visual for this segment in my chapter one, titled ‘The Lounge Chair.’  The video features the song “Misty Mountain Hop” from one of my all-time favorite bands, Led Zeppelin (and I might have a problem with you if you just asked yourself who Led Zeppelin is).

Piece by piece.  That usually gets it done.