Forget CAD software. When it comes to making furniture, design collective Front opts for the same motion-capture technology used to animate Hollywood heavies like King Kong. But instead of donning sensor-studded suits, the Scandinavian quartet wields similarly trackable pens. A 10-camera array records their gestures as they draw chairs, tables, and lamps. The resulting 3-D patterns are output digitally to a laser sintering machine, which over several days produces each object by shaping and hardening 0.1-mm layers of liquid plastic. Sketch Furniture is on view and on sale (about $10,500 per piece) at Barry Friedman Gallery in New York.
- Todd Jatras
credit Anna Lönnerstam and Katja K.
A motion-capture system records the designs sketched by Charlotte von der Lancken (left) and Anna Lindgren.
credit Anna Lönnerstam and Katja K.
The system traces a fly’s path to produce a lamp.
credit Anna Lönnerstam and Katja K.
The system traces a fly’s path to produce a lamp.
credit Anna Lönnerstam and Katja K.
The system traces a fly’s path to produce a lamp.
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