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News: the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam has acquired Solid C2 by Patrick Jouin, the first item of furniture to be 3D-printed in one piece.

Created in 2004 by French designer Patrick Jouin in collaboration with digital manufacturers .MGX by Materialise, the Solid C2 chair was made from intersecting ribbons of material that ignored furniture-making traditions in favour of the freeform shapes that 3D printing allows.

“The Solid chair was the first furniture piece made with the SLS [selective laser sintering] technique in one piece,” says the museum’s curator of industrial design Ingeborg de Roode. “It clearly shows the possibilities of this technique to make very complicated structures.”

This is the first 3D-printed chair in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum – whose bathtub-like extension we featured last autumn – and the curators have chosen to buy it in red.

The museum also holds two One_Shot.MGX stools by Jouin from 2006, five Snotty Vases by Marcel Wanders from 2001 and a Miss Piggy ring by Ted Noten from 2009.

We visited Materialise Leuven, Belgium, as part of our road trip for Print Shift, our one-off magazine about additive manufacturing.

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Here’s some more information from .MGX by Materialise:

.MGX is thrilled to announce that a red Solid C2 chair by Patrick Jouin has been selected to join the permanent collection of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Patrick Jouin is one of the major protagonists of contemporary design on the French and international scene. In 2004, Jouin first became aware of 3D Printing which until then, had only been used for small ‘scale models’ in plastic. Together with .MGX, Jouin took the entire process to a previously unheard of level, creating forms that were once thought impossible to produce. The Solid C2 chair was among these first designs and is reminiscent of blades of grass waving in the wind and weaving together.

Founded in 1874, the Stedelijk Museum is a leading modern and contemporary art museum with a collection featuring some of the greatest artists of this century and the last, including: Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollack, and Vincent van Gogh.

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These inflatable chairs by Chinese designers Ray Jiao and Yi Wang integrate vacuum compression systems that mould the seats to the shape of each sitter (+ movie).

The seat of each chair in the Holding-Breath collection is a detachable bag, filled with foam particles and fitted with a valve that allows air in and out.

To mould the chair, the sitter connects a hand pump to the inflated bag and uses it to exhaust some of the air.

This process also allows the foam particles to bind themselves around the sitter’s back and hips, holding the seat in place.

Storage pockets are included behind the backrest for hiding the pump and storing other items.

Air can be simply pumped back into the valves to rebuild the chair for a new sitter.

The collection includes a rocking chair, a bar stool and a sofa. Each has a wooden frame that is attached to the bag with nylon strings and plastic plugs.

Other unusual seating design we’ve featured includes a cocoon felt pod and a chair that wraps up around the sitter. See more chair design »

Here’s some more information from the designers:

The Holding-breath Chair is aimed at making a chair for every unique person. The collection includes a rocking chair, a bar stool and a sofa.

The working principle is vacuum compression for shaping. It is made up of two parts, one is the wood base which supplies different using methods, the other one is the sealing bag filled of foam particles and a air valve installed with the function of letting air in and out and keeping itself in vacuum.

They are connected by the nylon strings and plastic plugs. The using process is that when you sit on the assembled chair, exhaust the air use the air pump by hand, then the bag gets harder and harder with the shape of your back and, at last, a made-just-for-you chair comes to life.

Letting the air in is the easy way to rebuild the chair. As the shape of seating is totally decided by the users, we can explore quite numbers of using methods. The project is inspired by the research of the truth- “A part of people with autism like to be squeezed”.

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Furniture made of guns by Mozambican designer Gonçalo Mabunda will be on show in London next week.

Gonçalo Mabunda works with weapons that were recovered at the end of the civil war in Mozambique, which divided the country for sixteen years until 1992.

Deactivated rocket launchers, rifles and pistols are welded together to create a range of thrones and African-influenced masks.

The collection will be on show at Jack Bell Gallery in London from 12 July to 10 August.

Other stories about weaponry on Dezeen include the addition of the AK-47 rifle to the Design Museum’s collection and the struggle over plans to distribute blueprints for 3D-printed guns.

Photographs are courtesy of Jack Bell Gallery.

Here ‘s some more information from the curators:

Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Gonçalo Mabunda, in his second solo show with the gallery. Mabunda is interested in the collective memory of his country, Mozambique, which has only recently emerged from a long and terrible civil war. He works with arms recovered in 1992 at the end of the sixteen-year conflict that divided the region.

In his sculpture, he gives anthropomorphic forms to AK47s, rocket launchers, pistols and other objects of destruction. While the masks could be said to draw on a local history of traditional African art, Mabunda’s work takes on a striking Modernist edge akin to imagery by Braque and Picasso. The deactivated weapons of war carry strong political connotations, yet the beautiful objects he creates also convey a positive reflection on the transformative power of art and the resilience and creativity of African civilian societies.

Mabunda is most well known for his thrones. According to the artist, the thrones function as attributes of power, tribal symbols and traditional pieces of ethnic African art. They are without a doubt an ironic way of commenting on his childhood experience of violence and absurdity and the civil war in Mozambique that isolated his country for a long period.

Mabunda was born in 1975, in Maputo, Mozambique. Having trained in Mozambique and South Africa, he has been working full time as an artist since 1997. His work has been exhibited at Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Hayward Gallery, London, Pompidou, Paris, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo and the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg among others. His work was included in Caught in the Crossfire, a recent group exhibition at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, UK.

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Design student Matthias Brandmaier spent three days in the woods carving a replica Verner Panton chair out of a tree trunk using a chainsaw.

The chair, which weights 30 kilograms, is carved from a single piece of beechwood, but Brandmaier claims it is comfortable to sit on: “Most time was spent on carving the seat and the backrest to guarantee a comfortable chair,” he says.

Reproducing the form of the classic moulded-plastic Panton Chair in solid wood “seemed a stupid and very uneconomic idea at first,” Brandmaier admits, but he did it in order to explore what would happen when a product is reproduced in a different material.

“It was meant to be a unique piece of furniture and I planned in advance how to use the rest of the wood in other objects and sculptures,” Brandmaier says, adding that the copyright of the original chair was not a concern to him. “The translation to the material wood is of course very opposite to the thin plastic shells of the 60s and required a very different structural form, from where a new chair evolved. Therefore I did not worry about the copyright.”

“As this approach seems pretty wasteful on the material, this method of production is of course only possible in a small scale manufacturing, where the redundant wood was used for other objects and sculptures,” adds Brandmaier, who is a student of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. “The Wooden Panton is a single object, which explores the change of forms according to different materials.”

The classic S-shaped Panton Chair, designed by Danish designer Verner Panton, went into production with Vitra in 1967. The chair, featuring a cantilevered seat and made from a single moulded component, has been made of various plastics over the years. It was originally made of fibreglass-reinforced polyester, then from polystyrene and later polyurethane. Today the chair is moulded in polypropylene.

Besides his architectural studies, Brandmaier produces unique pieces of furniture from found objects combined with wood, steel and concrete. See more of his work on his website: www.matthiasbrandmaier.de

A couple of years ago designer Peter Jakubik also used a chainsaw to carve the rough shape of the same Panton chair. See all our stories about chair design »

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Song Seung-Yong imagine de superbes chaises au design singulier faisant office aussi d’échelle ou encore d’étagère. En réinterprétant et en repoussant l’utilité de la chaise, le designer coréen propose de merveilleux objets appelés « Object-E », « Object-B» ou «Object-O ». A découvrir dans l’article.