Round-Back Chair, from the "Sketch Furniture" series
Front Design, Swedish, established 2003, designer and maker

Details
Title
Round-Back Chair, from the "Sketch Furniture" series
Artist/Maker
Front Design, Swedish, established 2003, designer and maker
Date
2005
Medium
Thermoplastic powder and lacquer
Dimensions
30 11/16 x 18 7/8 x 20 7/8 inches
Credit
Purchase through funds provided by patrons of Collectors Evening 2010
Accession #
2010.6
The Swedish design collective FRONT’s imaginative, playful works address the process of creation, often include an element of performance, and question the conventional role of the product designer in today’s world. Their Sketch Furniture series captures the dynamic quality of freehand drawings by using computer-aided design (CAD) technology. The designers sketch the form in the air and their gestures are recorded by cameras and mapped as a 3-D digital model. Through rapid prototyping, the data is sent to a 3-D printer, which builds the form layer by layer until a full-scale design is realized directly from the sketch.