{"71968":{"#nid":"71968","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Students Create Award-Winning Furniture","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech students working in the Advanced Wood Products Lab are learning lifelong skills and creating award-winning furniture.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents in Alan Harp\u0027s furniture design studio in the Advanced Wood Products Lab (AWPL) are producing world-class wood furniture; seven were selected as finalists in a national student furniture competition held this year in Las Vegas.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMore than 220 students nationwide enter this competition, known as Fresh Wood, sponsored by AWFS machinery show. Furniture creations, ranging from modern coffe tables to antique reproductions, were judged by a diverse group of furniture industry professionals. Fifty-eight finalists were invited to bring their pieces to the show in Las Vegas for display and to attend an awards ceremony. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I was able to have 90 percent control over what I wanted to do,\u0022 said Nicholas Komor, whose oak coffee table finished in second place. \u0022I wanted to design a coffee table, and I designed it. Professor Harp was essential in guiding the engineering of my table and I learned so much from him, but I didn\u0027t feel pressured to change what I wanted. Instead, he encouraged me to work harder and be more of a perfectionist.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech students who participated in the competition were all students of Harp, who teaches furniture design at the AWPL, a research center within the College of Architecture.  Of the seven Georgia Tech finalists, four were in the senior Industrial Design furniture design studio course, while the other three were taking independent study courses in furniture design. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The most significant lesson I learned about furniture design and fabrication is the importance of planning before building,\u0022 said Jessica Wood, an Industrial Design major.  \u0022It took several difficult experiences for me to learn the value of the \u0027measure twice, cut once\u0027 process.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Prior to taking this course, I worked as an intern (and now work full-time) for a NASA subcontractor building full-scale mock-ups out of wood,\u0022 Wood continued.  \u0022My experience as an intern really made me comfortable working around power tools, and I learned a lot about project planning.\u0022    \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the awards ceremony, hosted by Richard Karn, TV\u0027s Al Borland from Tool Time, four of the Georgia Tech students received awards and cash prizes for their work.  Georgia Tech not only accrued more awards than any other school, but the Institute also had more finalists than any other school in the competition.  This is the third time that students from Georgia Tech have participated in this competition, and the second time that Georgia Tech students have placed.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe winners from Georgia Tech were:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nKate Schindel: Intimates Armoire: Honorable Mention: Case Goods\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nJessica Wood: Walnut Miter Table and Stools: 2nd Place: Production\/Contract Furniture\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nKatina Zachas: Aerri Dresser: Honorable Mention: Contract Furniture\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNick Komor: Unraveling Oak Coffee Table: 2nd Place: Tables\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe other three students who were finalists, but who did not place, were:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n Jake Tompkins: Chicken Coop Farm Table: Reproduction Furniture\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMarisa Topping: Communal Dining Table: Tables\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nStephanie Radbill: Regalo Ribbon Chest: Case Goods\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Professor helps students learn intricacies of furniture design."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech students working in the Advanced Wood Products Lab are learning lifelong skills and creating award-winning furniture .","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Students created furniture in the AWPL lab."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2007-08-27 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:05","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2007-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71969":{"id":"71969","type":"image","title":"Nick Komor","body":null,"created":"1449177425","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:17:05","changed":"1475894647","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:07"},"71970":{"id":"71970","type":"image","title":"Jessica Wood","body":null,"created":"1449177425","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:17:05","changed":"1475894647","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:07"}},"media_ids":["71969","71970"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech College of Architecture"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/awpl\/","title":"Advanced Wood Products Lab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"137","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2293","name":"AWFS Competition"},{"id":"2291","name":"AWPL"},{"id":"926","name":"College of Architecture"},{"id":"2292","name":"Furniture"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"813","name":"las vegas"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}