daniel widrig 3D prints chair using plaster, sugar + sake

daniel widrig 3D prints chair using plaster, sugar + sake
all images courtesy of daniel widrig

designed and built by london based designer/artist daniel widrig, the ‘degenerate chair’ is part of a set of experimental seating objects produced for frac center’s naturalizing architecture exhibition in orleans, france. using sculpting techniques usually employed in the creation of digital maquettes for movies and computer games, the chair is built up of roughly 3 billion three-dimensional pixels (voxels), which are baked into one super high-resolution, structural skin. the geometry was then materialized through a custom, low-cost 3D printing process, binding together micro layers of a mixture of plaster and sugar with sake (japanese rice wine). this precise, DIY method allowed the artist to bypass typical constraints in the technology (such as inflated production cost and timing) when producing larger scale objects. the stools have been acquired by frac center and are part of its permanent collection.

the 3D printed geometry is bound together using a mixture of plaster and sugar with sake

the chair is built using sculpting techniques usually employed for movies and computer games

roughly 3 billion three-dimensional pixels (voxels) are baked into a high-resolution, structural skin

the DIY method allowed the artist to bypass typical constraints in 3D printing technology

the stool is materialized through a custom, low-cost process

detail view of the ‘degenerate chair’

the chair is part of a set of experimental seating objects produced for frac center’s naturalizing architecture exhibition

the stools are part of the frac center’s permanent collection

the underside of the chair showing its sculptural skin

  
detail of the chair’s surface

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