Design and Fabrication of Metal Table Ware for the Council Chamber

A table ware is a matching set of metal ware or china as a teapot, sugar bowl, creamer, and often plates, cups, and saucers for serving tea and sometimes coffee at table. It covers a variety of objects and tools utilized in serving and eating of meals. Most evidence about the movement of goods in the classical world comes from the finds of pottery, and in demand too were wine, olive oil, and scents that were shipped in pottery, arms and luxurious and splendid metal tableware. Today some metal table wares still hold high personal and social status. KNUST does not have a personal table ware for its council chamber. This publication however, seeks to display a beseeming design concept and succeeding production of a metal table ware for the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) council chamber. Different techniques such as raising, chasing, casting (lost wax and Cold Casting), and forging among others, were incorporated to produce the metal table ware. Descriptive Research and Studio Based Research methods based on the quantitative and qualitative research approaches were employed. The study revealed that huge works can be achieved by casting them in separate parts, and then joining these parts by brazing. Itis therefore recommended that brazing should be adopted in joining separate cast parts. Artisans are also encouraged go in for cold casting since it is easier to cast, lighter in weight and has a low casting defect than be compared to lost wax casting.