Form & Field Archive of Construction Vol. II / Fol. 001
Est. MMXIX · Cape Town Issue 02

FORM FIELD

An archive of how furniture is made. Not a shop and not a studio — a record of construction, drawn to scale, taken apart and labelled.

Entries
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Joints indexed
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Drawings
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001 On method FF · MAN

A chair is an argument about load. Everything visible about it — the profile, the timber, the cloth — is downstream of a decision made at the joint, in the dark, where nobody looks.

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VECTOR

SVG geometry drawn along its own path length, then translated part by part. No raster, no video — every line you are about to watch is resolution-independent and weighs nothing.

FIG. 01

Refectory table · specimen FF‑218

SVG / anime.js
1800 740 26 DET. A MORTISE & TENON
Phase 01 — Elevation 000%
002

CSS 3D

Real depth in the browser's own compositor. Six planes in a shared 3D space, rotated and separated on the Z axis — no library drawing pixels, only transforms the GPU already knows how to do.

FIG. 02

Two-seat settee · section through arm

CSS 3D / anime.js
  1. 01 Frame · beech, kiln-dried
  2. 02 Webbing · elasticated jute
  3. 03 Serpentine spring · 3.4 mm
  4. 04 Foam · 35 kg/m³ profiled
  5. 05 Wadding · 400 gsm polyester
  6. 06 Cover · Belgian linen 14 oz
Assembled 000%
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WEBGL

Geometry built from primitives at runtime and drawn by three.js — but timed, eased and scrubbed by anime.js. One motion system driving the DOM and the GPU from the same clock.

FIG. 03

Work table · specimen FF‑331, in the round

three.js / anime.js
Orbit 000%
002 Specimen index Sheet 1 of 9
Ref Specimen Principal joint Material Year
FF-218 Refectory table Draw-bore mortise & tenon European oak 1972
FF-244 Stacking stool Wedged through-tenon Steam-bent ash 1958
FF-267 Two-seat settee Corner block & dowel Beech, jute, linen 1966
FF-291 Wall cabinet Through-dovetail Quarter-sawn walnut 1981
FF-331 Work table Bridle joint, pegged Douglas fir 1949
FF-402 Reading chair Scarfed lap, glued Elm, saddle-seated 1993

The full index runs to 418 entries across nine sheets. Each entry carries an elevation, a plan, one section and a joint detail at 1:1.

003 Colophon

Set in Instrument Serif and Archivo. Drawn in millimetres. Printed nowhere.

FORM & FIELD keeps no stock, sells nothing, and answers no enquiries about price. It exists to record how a thing was put together, so that it can be put together again.

Full disclosure

FORM & FIELD is not a real company.

There is no archive, no specimen FF‑218, no settee. Everything you just scrolled through — the identity, the drawings, the catalogue, the motion — was built by Helium Digital as a demonstration.

You watched three different rendering techniques in one page. A vector construction drawing that draws itself. A six-layer cutaway in real CSS 3D. A WebGL object with anime.js on the other end of every transform. One motion system, one scrollbar, one brand.

Most agencies pick one of those and call it a website. We will build all three into yours — and make them mean something about your product rather than about our showreel.

Technique 001 Vector SVG that draws, morphs and explodes on scroll.
Technique 002 CSS 3D Real depth on the compositor. No canvas, no cost.
Technique 003 WebGL three.js geometry, anime.js timing, one clock.
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