Bone Chair (2006) My fascination with the digital era really took off when I saw an animation in a documentary about German Professor Claus Mattheck. To me this was not just an animation of an optimized engine mount, but a visualization of how the industrial era in general is transforming into the digital era. He then cast the chair using a mixture of marble powder and resin. Whereas his first 'Bone Chair' was made with aluminum, the chalky and smooth quality of the marble resin has a bone-like appearance that visually reinforces Laarman's design concept. Joris Laarman 'Bone' armchair, 2008
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Bone Chaise (2006) After seeing the first Bone Chair results, I knew right away that we'd only taken our first steps into an entire world of possibilities just waiting to be discovered. I for one though it would be exciting to develop more design in this manner. That's why for the first time, I began working on a series: the Bone Furniture series. Joris Laarman Bone Chair 2006 Not on view The International Development Center at Adam Opel GmbH, General Motors' German subsidiary, has developed three-dimensional optimization software that mimics biological growth. Originally designed for automotive chassis components, the software has been applied by Laarman to the design of furniture. Written by Luke T. Baker Dutch designer Joris Laarman was only three years out of Design Academy Eindhoven when his 2006 Bone chair became an instantaneous icon portending the formal and technical possibilities of the then‐nascent field of digital design. The "Bone Furniture" series consists of two pieces, a chair and a chaise longue. These were designed in the context of a research and design collaboration with Dutch design foundation Droog sponsored by the Barry Friedman gallery of New York. Displayed here is the first resin prototype of the Lounge Chair, which followed one in wood.
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Dutch designer Joris Laarman describes how he turned an algorithm created for the automotive industry loose on a chunk of material and spawned a chair that m. Dutch designer Joris Laarman has created a new edition to his Bone furniture range. The Bone Armchair, created in a limited edition of 12 and exhibited by New York gallery Friedman Benda,. Joris Laarman - Design London Wednesday, November 2, 2022 | Phillips Evolutionary Design At the inception of Joris Laarman's 'Bone' armchair is the fascinating research on the growth of trees and bones. Both efficiently optimise their mass quantity at specific points, in function of where strength and support are required. A limited set of 12 Bone Chairs by Joris Laarman went on exhibition in the New-York gallery Friedman Benda, the last of a series that is artistic as it is celebratory of the usage of advanced technology in modeling everyday items.
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The "Bone" chair is perhaps the most widely recognizable model from the eponymous series, which also includes designs for an armchair, a chaise, a rocking chair, a bridge table and a bookshelf. The Armchair is part of the permanent collection of the High museum of Art, Atlanta, USA (photocredits: Friedman Benda Gallery, JL, Adriaan de Groot & Joost van Brug)
Joris Laarman 'Bone' chair, 2006 (detail). Very few designs of the 21st century have influenced and inspired furniture practice and design debate as much as Joris Laarman's 'Bone Chair' from the Dutch designer's 2004 'Bone Furniture' series, where computer algorithms are applied to simulate natural growth structures in a variety of furniture designs. Good Bones. With his Bone Chair and other creations, Dutch design hotshot Joris Laarman finds new ways to merge high tech with high style. New faces come and go in the design world, and many of.
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Joris Laarman 'Bone' Armchair photo: phillips In an effort to bring together thinkers and makers from seemingly disparate disciplines, Joris Laarman and Anita Star established Joris Laarman Lab in 2004. The Lab executes works that range in scale from furniture such as the present lot to larger architectural projects. As the designer of the Bone Chair, Joris Laarman, says: "Trees have the ability to add material where strength is needed. But bones also have the ability to take away material where it is not needed."
