PlasticNature
16Jul08
This is a great example of someone who is breaking the mold to come up with some great new design. It seems like these days it’s hard to get an angle on furniture design that hasn’t already been done. Alexander Pelikan has combined wood and plastic in a very dramatic way. By using molded plastic for all the joinery it gives the chair an organic look that you would expect to find in classic danish design, but achieved with modern manufacturing practices. What’s best of all is that Alexander has been gracious enough to share exactly how he does it. Check out the video below….I’ve been anxious to play with some resins lately, any idea what he is using?
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oh my God, its so hardworking job
I realize that my job is so easy compared to it after watching that video !!
The trick is not in the resin, but the molds. There’s very little finishing needed for the resin because the molds are so nice.
Yup, he’s clearly a genius. What do you think he makes the molds out of? What would that process be? So much to learn.
I say he makes the original shape he wants out of something moldable (clay?) then makes his molds out of fiberglass. Once you get one good set of fiberglass molds your good to go.
In general using malleble materials for making the first piece -the ‘positive’- is possible but I am not very good in doing that…so what I do is to rapid prototype a 3D file and then make fibreglass molds from there…