Franklin Chair
As seen in Nic Cage's National Treasure
2020 · Lenses: Touchable Stuff, Useful Nonsense, Wood · Roles: Design, Fabrication, Woodworking
I designed and built this transforming Franklin Chair out of scrap wood after seeing a similar one in the scene of National Treasure where it flashes back to 1974 and young Benjamin Franklin Gates first hears the clue “the secret lies with Charlotte” from his grandfather, Christopher Plummer, who tells him the clue has been passed down through the Gates family for generations starting with Thomas Gates, who Plummer refers to as his “grandfather’s grandfather,” but then in NT2:BoS, Thomas is referred to as Ben’s great-great Grandfather,” which is weird because Ben’s grandfather’s grandfather’s grandfather would be Ben’s great-great-great-great-grandfather, not his great-great Grandfather, and while Thomas Gates was born in 1821 and there could technically be that many generations in between (provided the 19th century Gates boys were causing teen pregnancies), it is still kind of an inconsistency, albeit the only one in the entire National Treasure franchise (not counting the short-lived Disney+ series, which I do not consider canon). Anyway, the chair turns into a stepladder.