Chris Hardy's 'Re-loved' Cesca Chair

Thanks Shapeways. I wouldn't have been able to do this without you guys!


In situ at the Powerhouse Museum Sydney.

This response to Powerhouse Museum's Re-loved exhibition arose from looking at modernist attitudes to adopting new technologies in the early part of last century. Just like Breuer's Cesca chair, one of the first cantilevered chairs brought about by the use of new fabrication techniques, this reinterpretation of the Cesca chair (a modernist classic) uses contemporary generative techniques and rapid prototyping technology as an homage to modernism.

The generative method used is voronoi subdivision of a point cloud. This enabled further meaning to be built into the chair by using an image of the chair's creator to influence the point cloud - Breuer becomes a ghost in the chair. The technology used to build the chair was selective laser sintering (Shapeways). This was used based on its strength characteristics and its ability to be formed quickly and easily based on the quite complex geometry.


Modelled in Rhino & Alibre, rendered with VRay for Rhiho




Construction images

Cheers,
Chris Hardy

Very cool

Great to see a larger scale project on Shapeways.

well done

Was this on show at the Powerhouse in Sydney?

Thanks drscott, it was really great to work at this scale. I enjoyed it heaps.

That's right, the chair is being exhibited at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney until mid October as part of their 'Re-loved' exhibition.

cool,

shoot me an email at duann(at)shapeways.com

cheers

Duann

WOW amazing

that would have costet you a lot of money?
i say 1500dollar?

wow! a large scale print!
that first photo made me sit up and look closer!

That's absolutely incredible. WSF, I assume?

Andy

Love this... Fantastic job...

Todd
www.4m3D.com

Thanks everyone, really cool to hear that people like my work!

Jettuh: yep, it was expensive about $1060 (not as expensive as it would been without Shapeways).

Drawn-Steel Hero: that's right, WSF. Such awesome material properties and really cheap as well.