Stain-Glass Chair

  • Prize
    Honorable Mention in Furniture Design
  • Company/Firm
    Rocky Ranch Design Workshop
  • Designer
    Marcus Guillard
  • Photo Credit
    Marcus Guillard
  • Location
    San Francisco Ca
  • Project Date
    12/01/2025
  • Web URL

This chair explores seating as an encounter with geometry and space. The design originates from a simple relationship: a circle extruded through a square. From every angle, shifting compositions of curves and planes emerge, transforming the chair into a spatial study rather than a single fixed object. Geometry becomes both structure and experience.

A powder coated steel frame forms a precise architectural grid that defines the piece while remaining visually open. Within this framework, curved upholstered volumes introduce softness and comfort, allowing the user to inhabit the intersection of form and body. Velvet upholstery in a vivid color palette adds warmth and tactility, balancing the clarity of the structure with an emotional and sensory presence.

Integrated glass elements create moments of reflection and transparency, allowing light and color to interact with the form and its surroundings. The chair balances rigidity and softness, logic and nostalgia, structure and play. It functions simultaneously as furniture and sculptural exploration, inviting movement around it and engagement from every perspective.

Bio
I am an artist, designer, fabricator, entrepreneur, teacher. I am an emerging artist I am inspired. I am persistent. I am committed.

I am driven by an urge that cannot be contained. The energy to create is found foundational. The ability to create is a lifetime of learning.