FRIEZE ART FAIR NEW YORK 2012
MILAN 2012: SALONE INTERNAZIONALE DEL MOBILE
MILAN 2012: SATELLITE EXHIBITIONS
MILAN 2012: BRERA DESIGN DISTRICT
This year, Jordy Canudas, Andrew Haythornethwaite and Core77 contributor Shai Akram, three parts of loose studio collective Okay Studio, presented You're Getting on My Nurbs at the Lago Appartamaneto in Brera. The furniture plays on the idea of point-based deformable surfaces (also called, as we're sure all you designer types know, NURBS). Instead of deforming a surface in the computer with clicks of a mouse, the studio took this approach to real, physical space, pushing and pulling a sheet of heated Corian to create a comfortable shape.
The process is not so different from the one on your computer screen, just a tad more aggressive, maybe. A sheet of Corian is sublimation-printed with a grid, and selected points are turnbuckled and pressed into the desired shape.
More photos after the jump.
And, some process shots:
Comments
Hmmm...this is an interesting thought!
Manufacturing has never looked so comfortable.
We worked with LAGO for the TRON designs CORIAN(R) exhibit (http://on.fb.me/gKyX6o), and I continue to be very impressed with their work - this chair is no exception. I like how the Corian(R) sheet they used looks a lot like graph paper, and I also enjoyed the process pictures. Thanks for sharing. Stephanie from DuPont.
wow. Great way to shape furniture