Furniture

Furniture research

The space that we are looked into hiring does not provide any furniture therefore we would have to look for our own. Our options include hiring or finding ones we can borrow. The website www.exhibitionhire.co.nz provides a range of furniture with different types of displays structure and furniture such as chairs and tables. Majority of the listed furniture are dark and not quite what we are after and it was also quite expensive. We thought about bringing tables from home but we would want to have same looking furniture to tie the work together as well as avoid adding anything else that would make the space more domestic than it is. We also looked at lights and MacBooks/ipads. Meg Rollandi, The exposure exhibition coordinator of the uni gave us a link to a hire place for computers: http://www.rentamac.co.nz/portfolio-view/imac/. 

After some thought we decided that it is a good idea to ask Meg if we are able to borrow the exposure Exhibition furniture, they have a variety of display system that we can work with. She referred us to Brent Davenport, head of the facilities management. We organised a time to meet and discuss which furniture we would be able to borrow. After failing to find a vehicle to transport the tables and plinths our lecturer helped us transport these to our exhibition location and Karl (fm) helped us bring them back to uni. 

Thread between Brent, Bryce and Me 

Exhibition exposure furniture

The plywood furniture meets our needs of having identical looking furniture, no cost and allows us to reduce the use of walls for displaying work. The raw look of the furniture contributes to the idea of working progress of our work. We were originally after the shelf but was too big to fit through the door as well as carry them upstairs of our location. It ended up working out as the shelf and the poster stand would have blocked the natural light coming from the windows. 

For the mac, we decided to not hire any out and ended up using a laptop.