{"id":14256,"date":"2017-06-20T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=14256"},"modified":"2017-06-28T21:28:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T04:28:05","slug":"fine-furniture-show-displays-camosun-students-hard-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/06\/20\/fine-furniture-show-displays-camosun-students-hard-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine furniture show displays Camosun students\u2019 hard work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before you pack two shopping carts full of mass-produced goods at IKEA, talk to Camosun Fine Furniture and Joinery program leader and instructor Ken Guenter. Guenter has been practicing the trade for over 30 years, and says that Camosun\u2019s end-of-year fine furniture exhibition is a place where the future of the industry can congregate to make sure local businesses and tradespeople prosper.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are people within our community who are capable of making good quality furniture,\u201d says Guenter. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to go far away to buy your furniture; you can have it made for you locally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guenter says one of the most rewarding moments for him as a teacher is when former graduates of the program hire students who have just finished the program. He says that happens a lot and creates a good sense of local community, but he adds that the journey for students can get frustrating at times, as he sees with these final projects.<\/p>\n

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Camosun student Janson Chan’s Best in Show-winning chair (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cSometimes people discover halfway through the process they don\u2019t really like what they designed,\u201d says Guenter. \u201cWhere it\u2019s really exciting and really fun is that period from the sketching point to the completion of the model.\u201d<\/p>\n

There will be 18 chairs on display at the exhibit\u2014which is free to the public to check out until Tuesday, June 27 at the Cedar Hill Recreation Centre\u2014ranging from fairly straightforward bar stools to full-blown recliner chairs.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the really fun things about this project is you would think, \u2018Okay, make a chair,\u2019 so someone will make a basic chair with four legs, some rails, and a back, but that never happens,\u201d says Guenter. \u201cWe always have a few [students] who want to re-invent the concept of seating, or we have a few who want to take classic designs to make it their own, which is also really quite wonderful to see students do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Camosun Fine Furniture and Joinery student Janson Chan\u2019s chair, which is on display at the exhibit, was voted Best in Show by a panel of judges; along with the acknowledgement, Chan got $500, donated by the Vancouver Island Woodworkers\u2019 Guild. Chan completed his first post-secondary education a few years ago; after working at a bank, where he realized the banality of ongoing business politics wasn\u2019t for him, he landed in the Fine Furniture program, which he says he initially discovered in grade school.<\/p>\n

\u201cI re-evaluated my life, and said, \u2018Hey, what do I want to do?\u2019 Woodworking is what I really wanted to do when I was younger, so I re-visited that,\u201d says Chan, who adds that he found out about Camosun through friends. \u201cI applied and I met with Ken. I was hooked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chan arrives as early in the morning as possible at Camosun\u2019s woodworking shop, so that he doesn\u2019t waste a minute of the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think one of the best things I\u2019ve learned about this place,\u201d he says, \u201cis how much I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Chair to Remember: Seating in Western Maple
\nUntil Tuesday, June 27
\nArts Centre, Cedar Hill Recreation Centre, 3220 Cedar Hill Road
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