Maker chair, diamond, prototype
(2014)
- Medium
- painted Maple (Acer sp.), painted Ash (Fraxinus sp.)
- Measurements
- 77.5 × 53.7 × 60.6 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Inscription
- engraved in metal plate on underside of rear leg c.: JORIS Laarman / prototype
- Accession Number
- 2016.427
- Department
- Contemporary Design and Architecture
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Donald Russell Elford and Dorothy Grace Elford Bequest, 2017
© Joris Laarman - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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As affordable computer-controlled machines, smart software and new materials become more common, digital fabrication has developed from being a tool for prototyping to a way of manufacturing actual products. Laarman’s Maker chair explores this space by offering a chair composed of digitally fabricated 3D parts that fit together exactly, like a three-dimensional puzzle. By fractioning designs into many small parts, small consumer 3D printers and computer numerical control milling machines can produce the building blocks for larger objects, revealing a future where large-scale construction could be achieved through open source systems sharing building blocks and parts of products printed on demand.
