Dare to Dream

Design

About

Furniture, quite literally, touches us all physically but for me it’s more than that. My goal as a designer is to take people on a journey far from the ordinary to a place where dreams and memories come to life.

My designs invoke inspiration and passions. Each piece has a minimalist form reflecting my taste for visual purity. They toy with speed and excitement.

“I will never settle for what is given, I will always strive to find a new world, living just to live is not enough - dare to dream.”

My latest project reflects these thoughts as I wish to share for the first time my work with the public. I have chosen to organize a series of nationwide exhibitions in public areas in the spring of 2012. This project ‘une place pour tous’ will communicate the following important messages:

urbanism – how public areas can be made more interesting and attractive.
design – give everyone access to objects of design rather than just an elite few.
solidarity - a percentage of the chairs will be auctioned at the end of the tour to sponsor a major cancer charity.

I have created a non-profit making organization called “dare to dream” to accompany the project. Its objective is to organize cultural events and exhibitions.

What are the funds for?

To realize my series of exhibitions I need full size examples of my furniture (chair TR7). I have spent the last year working on my portfolio, making models and finalizing my designs ready for construction. Due to the size and form of this piece I need to use special materials (fibre glass), techniques (CNC milling) and technologies (3D model scanning) to make them, this all comes at a relatively high cost. As I am at the beginning of my adventure I need financial support to fund the construction of my first piece.

For example chair TR7:

Chair TR7 Designed by Tom Rowan

The total cost to produce the full size model, mould and one example of my chair in fibre glass from a digitally scanned handmade model is 4500 Euros.

Once I have raised the necessary funds then I can get the project underway and finalize the details of my exhibitions.

I would like to thank you for your support and sharing my ‘dare to dream’.

About the project owner

I started my design career at Bath University before moving on to Buckinghamshire University College where I was awarded a degree in furniture design and craftsmanship.

With artists and engineers in the family I was influenced from a young age and soon found my own unique style. A three year contract with a bicycle racing team in the centre of France, being brought up on the south coast of Devon in the United Kingdom and travelling the globe have all left their mark on my creative designs. My imagination has been fuelled by a passion for speed and movement.

My website : www.tomrowan.fr

My Facebook pro page

Twitter : @TomRowanDesign

News

The March 21, 2012, 9 a.m.

The finishing straight

The March 12, 2012, 9:10 p.m.

Article dans info magazine

The Feb. 5, 2012, 6:26 p.m.

work work work!!!

Give, Get

This fundraising is finished

For €5 or more:

A big and warm thank you from us and all the people that the project will help. Your name will appear on the list of project supporters.

For €10 or more:

1) Your photo will appear in the promotional video for my project ‘une place pour tous’ and your name in the credits on my website + you will receive an invitation for the first event.

23 / 100

For €20 or more:

2) Reward 1 + a signed and personally dedicated limited edition photo card 105 x 148 mm of my TR7 Chair, delivered to your home.

Limited reward

7 / 50

For €50 or more:

3) Reward 1 + a signed limited edition photo 297 x 210mm of my TR7 Chair, delivered to your home in a protective envelope.

Limited reward

0 / 20

For €120 or more:

4) Reward 1 + a signed limited edition exclusive picture 594 x 420 mm of my TR7 Chair in the colour of your choice, delivered to your home in a protective tube.

Limited reward

3 / 20

For €200 or more:

5) Rewards 1 and 4 + a signed limited edition ‘collector’ portfolio (26 page colour book) of my furniture collection, presented in a protective sleeve with my ‘inspiration’ text, delivered to your home in a protective envelope.

Limited reward

2 / 10

For €350 or more:

6) Rewards 1 and 5 + a handmade 1:10 scale model replica of my TR7 Chair in colour of your choice delivered to your home in a protective box.

Limited reward

1 / 4

For €500 or more:

7) Rewards 1 and 5 + a lesson/demonstration of how to make scale furniture models at my design studio + a scale model of one of my designs made together.

Limited reward

0 / 1

For €1200 or more:

8) Reward 1 + a limited edition piece of furniture designed and made by Tom Rowan – signed and numbered 1 of 1. You will also receive the scale model of the piece.

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