daniel widrig 3D prints chair using plaster, sugar + sake, via Designboom.com:

designed and built by london based designer/artist daniel widrig, the ‘degenerate chair’ is part of a set of experimental seating objects produced for frac center’s naturalizing architecture exhibition in orleans, france. using sculpting techniques usually employed in the creation of digital maquettes for movies and computer games, the chair is built up of roughly 3 billion three-dimensional pixels (voxels), which are baked into one super high-resolution, structural skin. the geometry was then materialized through a custom, low-cost 3D printing process, binding together micro layers of a mixture of plaster and sugar with sake (japanese rice wine). this precise, DIY method allowed the artist to bypass typical constraints in the technology (such as inflated production cost and timing) when producing larger scale objects. the stools have been acquired by frac center and are part of its permanent collection.

• the 3D printed geometry is bound together using a mixture of plaster and sugar with sake.
• the chair is built using sculpting techniques usually employed for movies and computer games.
• roughly 3 billion three-dimensional pixels (voxels) are baked into a high-resolution, structural skin
• the DIY method allowed the artist to bypass typical constraints in 3D printing technology
• the stool is materialized through a custom, low-cost process….

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