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Numbered Boxes and Printed Chairs

While I can appreciate innovative design I like to have as little "stuff" as possible. A designer friend of mine sent me a picture of these numbered toolbox drawer units by Pietro Arosio adding that he was sure I'd love them. He was right. I do. But of course they're pretty modernist.

Then this weekend I saw the Solid C2 chair by Patrick Jouin in the Financial Times House & Home. Yes, I do browse every page, you never know, there might be something of interest. It's a pretty awesome chair and of course would look best in a mostly empty modernist room. It was created using a technology called rapid manufacturing, which is some sort of 3D printing.

The Solid C2 chair led me on to another chair, the Veryround, designed by Louise Campbell and based on a similar technique. What is most interesting about this technology is that it is equally expensive to create 100 identical products as it is to create 100 completely different ones.