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Correction: This story has been modified from its original version. — "Tech designers to visit Milan furniture fair," (CT, March 27) was incorrect. There are 11 students who will be showcased. The Collegiate Times regrets this error.
Experimental furniture will be showcased by 11 Virginia Tech students who were invited to the annual Furniture Fair in Milan, Italy, this April.
The students will be showing new designs for furniture and showcasing them to the public.
Robert Dunay, professor and chair of industrial design, and Joe Wheeler, assistant professor in the school of architecture and design will be leading this trip.
"This fair is invitational only and it's the biggest of its kind in the world," Dunay said. "Our students are making experimental furniture and each designed their own piece of furniture and used digital technology to create a 3-D model of the piece and that was then sent to a fabricator to create the chair, table, stool, etc."
The students' prototypes show the furniture influenced by industrialization.
"We're using sheet material and metals to show this," said Andrew Camardella, junior industrial design major. "This is my first time. So far it's a lot of fun but we're in the final stages of preparations and it's a lot of work."
Catherine Worsham, a senior industrial design major, designed an industrialized park bench made of steel, cut in unique ways, that can be made as short or as long the consumer wants it to be.
"This is the biggest design event I can imagine," Worsham said. "I've never been to an event like this before."
Tech is the only school from the United States that was invited and all together there are only 22 schools that will be showing their prototypes.
The team will be showing a open exhibit before the team leaves during the first week of April.
This team has also been invited twice to the International Contemporary Furniture Fair held at the Javits Center in New York.
The students will be leaving April 13 and returning home on April 23.
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