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The Spherene Side Table, by Peter Donders

The Belgian designer stretches material optimization to extremes

By Rain Noe - May 6

in Furniture Design | Digital Fabrication | Materials

Always a boundary-pusher, Belgian designer and computational design fan Peter Donders created this Spherene Side Table:

That's not what it looked like when it came out of the printer, of course. The experimental furniture piece was SLA 3D printed out of Accura, a tough, flame-retardant resin that offers both durability and, after cleanup, a fine surface finish.

As with much of Donders' work, this was designed less as a production piece, and more to demonstrate the role that advanced computational modeling can have in material optimization. The sturdy table, which measures 450mm (17.72") in all three dimensions, weighs just 3.8kg (8.4 lbs). Donders and 3D Systems, the South-Carolina-based 3D printing company, collaborated on the showpiece.

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Reynold Dodson

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No pictures of the top; is it also a tryophobia trigger? Or can I set my martini on it without risk of spillage?

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  Nope, if you click through on the link in the first paragraph to his site there's a draggable 3D rendering, the top is bumpy, no holes, but lots of lumps, you'd want to set a sheet of something flat on it.
  
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Roger ak

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Not a design for those who suffer from Tryophobia

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