This week’s selection is the Alu Vines Chair by 3D designer Peter Donders.
Donders is a Belgian artist who has been making furniture designs since the 1980s. Donders is well-known for his tendency to experiment with unusual making methods and materials, including 3D printing.
The Alu Vines chair has to be one of the strangest chair designs ever seen. It’s wildly not straight, seemingly discontiguous and yet in spite of that it somehow vaguely reminds you that it is, in fact, a chair.
The structure seems quite spindly, and from several viewing angles it appears so different that it’s hard to believe it’s the same object.
Yet it is a chair, and you can actually sit on it.
Donders designed the chair as a 3D model, which was then 3D printed. The print was then used to create a mold, into which strong resin was poured. After curing, the chair was finished with red lacquer.
Here you can see the chair being 3D printed in an SLA machine. It’s from this print that the mold was created.
As for the name of the chair, I’m not sure what “Alu” means, but “Vines” is clear: the chair seems to be a tangle of vines that somehow becomes a chair.
Via Peter Donders
