I used the Golden Ratio on a furniture project, but it's not for the reason you might think. Link to video on furniture proportions: • The 5 P's of Furniture...
I'm teaching myself woodwork. I'm binge watching and learning a lot from your videos. One day I hope to build a workbench based on your design. Thanks!!!! 🤠
God's number it's used in capacitor calculations as well, ah my geeky years,,, now I'm a wood geek with handtools,, funny how the world turns😊 keep it up luv your work!
Very true. Bespoke furniture is always more pleasing when designed to fit the space. GR is nice when designing small complimentary pieces such as Jewellery boxes etc. You forgot to mention Fractals.... That one always opens up a whole new world of weird claims of deeper meanings😆
So you’re calling me a bullshit artist if I use the golden ratio. The challenge is to design well proportioned furniture, many times that’s using the Fibonacci sequence and other times repetitive sizing. If mother nature uses it. It’s got to be a good thing.
I am not. Like I said in the video, if you use it and pretend that somehow imbues your project with some twinkly, mysterious, power of the universe, *that's* bullshit.
@@themountaintopjoinersshop8422 Maybe. Maybe not. Well I don’t think it will imbue supernatural powers, but visual ratios and certain proportions DO conjure emotional and subliminal intellectual responses in humans- which is useful in furniture design and architectural layouts. In the nineteen eighties and nineties there was a ‘blip’ of ratio/proportion discovery that inserted itself into the awareness of ‘the culture’ of which the first banal representation supporting this event was Nissan’s marketing campaign in which they highlighted ergonomics as being the overarching design element baked into their automobile line. That’s an overly simplified expression that most people interpret as “how the seating fits a body in relationship to the controls.” However, it is more a small window of vision into the realm of design where ratio/proportion segues into the non-geometrical realms of emotion and the mind’s neonuerological capacity to organize and retrieve information without conscious effort or impetus of ego - subconscious perceptions that sets the mind/body interactions at ease leaving a larger capacity for conscious use and awareness of the practical elements of a design. Golden mean ratios and progressions are usually not perceived as such, but rather the accompanying emotional response derives comfort from these design elements- subconsciously- which leaves a large portion of the consciousness to notice or highlight well-executed adornments, practical effects, and tactile cues that KD/RTA furniture will never have. While a shaker piece might ignore some aspects, other designs may rely on them specifically- like a ‘craftsman’ era chair that is illogically comfortable. So there IS something ‘magical’ in designing to a golden standard… Many would dispute this postulation so I’ll include one more example of seemingly illogical design to achieve an emotional connection with the end user. I knew a textile artist who derived a significant income creating interiors for a few boutique automobiles from Bentley, Maserati, etc and some custom supercars. I remember her explaining at length to me how the oversized stitching of the sculpted leather interior door pull was intricately arranged to not only not be seen from within the automobile, but specifically placed to be felt by the fingers when grasping the handle. The large-cord stitching was used to incite a visceral response which would not exist with typical small, clothing-type stitching. It was also sized to relate proportional to the hand- which of course is related mathematically to the golden ratio. Our- perhaps- much less ‘exquisite’ yet beautiful furniture attempts would benefit equally from incorporating this element of art / math along with vanishing-point and Fibonacci progressions. While not really ‘magical,’ the emotional response to a piece ‘raises the bar’ of perceived value in an unspoken manner- and that typically means a higher selling price, too.
I'm teaching myself woodwork. I'm binge watching and learning a lot from your videos. One day I hope to build a workbench based on your design. Thanks!!!! 🤠
You're getting better every upload. Smoother more natural deliveries...👍🏼
Fibonacci works so well because it uses whole numbers.
I appreciate your dig against "art speak" con artists.
Great chat thanks for sharing.
Ribs hurt from laughing so much. Love it!
God's number it's used in capacitor calculations as well, ah my geeky years,,, now I'm a wood geek with handtools,, funny how the world turns😊 keep it up luv your work!
Very true. Bespoke furniture is always more pleasing when designed to fit the space. GR is nice when designing small complimentary pieces such as Jewellery boxes etc. You forgot to mention Fractals.... That one always opens up a whole new world of weird claims of deeper meanings😆
thanks
I prefer Einsteins Universal Constant when seeking proportionality…….
So you’re calling me a bullshit artist if I use the golden ratio. The challenge is to design well proportioned furniture, many times that’s using the Fibonacci sequence and other times repetitive sizing. If mother nature uses it. It’s got to be a good thing.
I am not. Like I said in the video, if you use it and pretend that somehow imbues your project with some twinkly, mysterious, power of the universe, *that's* bullshit.
@@themountaintopjoinersshop8422
Maybe. Maybe not.
Well I don’t think it will imbue supernatural powers, but visual ratios and certain proportions DO conjure emotional and subliminal intellectual responses in humans- which is useful in furniture design and architectural layouts.
In the nineteen eighties and nineties there was a ‘blip’ of ratio/proportion discovery that inserted itself into the awareness of ‘the culture’ of which the first banal representation supporting this event was Nissan’s marketing campaign in which they highlighted ergonomics as being the overarching design element baked into their automobile line. That’s an overly simplified expression that most people interpret as “how the seating fits a body in relationship to the controls.” However, it is more a small window of vision into the realm of design where ratio/proportion segues into the non-geometrical realms of emotion and the mind’s neonuerological capacity to organize and retrieve information without conscious effort or impetus of ego - subconscious perceptions that sets the mind/body interactions at ease leaving a larger capacity for conscious use and awareness of the practical elements of a design.
Golden mean ratios and progressions are usually not perceived as such, but rather the accompanying emotional response derives comfort from these design elements- subconsciously- which leaves a large portion of the consciousness to notice or highlight well-executed adornments, practical effects, and tactile cues that KD/RTA furniture will never have.
While a shaker piece might ignore some aspects, other designs may rely on them specifically- like a ‘craftsman’ era chair that is illogically comfortable.
So there IS something ‘magical’ in designing to a golden standard…
Many would dispute this postulation so I’ll include one more example of seemingly illogical design to achieve an emotional connection with the end user. I knew a textile artist who derived a significant income creating interiors for a few boutique automobiles from Bentley, Maserati, etc and some custom supercars. I remember her explaining at length to me how the oversized stitching of the sculpted leather interior door pull was intricately arranged to not only not be seen from within the automobile, but specifically placed to be felt by the fingers when grasping the handle. The large-cord stitching was used to incite a visceral response which would not exist with typical small, clothing-type stitching. It was also sized to relate proportional to the hand- which of course is related mathematically to the golden ratio.
Our- perhaps- much less ‘exquisite’ yet beautiful furniture attempts would benefit equally from incorporating this element of art / math along with vanishing-point and Fibonacci progressions. While not really ‘magical,’ the emotional response to a piece ‘raises the bar’ of perceived value in an unspoken manner- and that typically means a higher selling price, too.