Furniture Designs
by Eugene Tssui
Custom Commissioned Chairs
Complete sets along with individual pieces commissioned for various inquiries.
Throne Stool
High stance fitting fabricated to use with drafting table. Used personally by Eugene Tssui along with others associates. One of Tssui’s first rendered furniture creations.
Curved Spine Chair
Made from custom formed plywood with a spherical cushion and wood intentioned back rest.
Paolo Tsui (son) with Throne Stool , 1976
Buffet Table
Mobile kitchen storage countertop. Illuminated inner light allows for stored goods to be visible. Made of curved plywood, plexiglass, and metal wheels. For the Kitchen of the Baliba residence.
Furniture:
Large movable equipment, such as tables and chairs, used to make a house, office, or other space suitable for living or working.
Small accessories or fittings for a particular use or piece of equipment.
Telescoping Buffet Table
For Mary Salcedo residence
Alameda, CA, 1997
Top Left - “Closed Position”
The table occupies little space and can be rolled to any location. Hand-hammered copper sheeting and rods are embedded in the varnished open drawers in front.
Top Right - “Partial”
Shown in partially elongated position with open drawers. Two-tone varnish and brushed copper sheathing are integral with the wood.
Bottom - “Extended”
Shown in fully extended position. Each section can be disconnected for use individually as small dining tables. Each section has its own roller wheels.
Buffet Table
Furniture design is yet another field Tssui applies his ideas and takes up industry challenges to ask why, and why not? Eugene Tssui’s created many furniture pieces to accommodated the way humans move and sit, and to support our posture and our body’s natural. sense of relaxing and movement. Furniture is a design challenge and Eugene is fond of any challenge thrown his way. The most important philosophy in Tssui’s furniture design process is the study of the human body. Tssui acknowledges the importance in studying and asking questions about the human body before engaging in the design of furniture.
Tssui preaches the importance of furniture, and how furniture ought to accommodate the varying postures of the human body throughout the day. Human bodies are living, feeling, organisms of bone, sinew, muscles, nerves and joints, and furniture ought to accommodate and support the activities of the body. And just as humans are more than the mechanics of their bodies; humans have imagination, the ability to visualize, emotions and senses; furniture should be more than mechanics and structure. Furniture should be works of art that propel innovation, and push engineering forward.
