DEC Innovative Designs and New Technologies

MX3D Dragon Bench (prototype)

To make the impressive Dragon Bench, Dutch designer Joris Laarman developed his own 3D-printing robot (the MX3D), which draws molten metal lines in the air to create a form. The specially adapted robotic arm melds and welds the metal (which can be stainless steel, aluminum, copper, or bronze) regardless of orientation and without the need […]

Rocking Chair

Bentwood furniture by European manufacturer Gebrüder Thonet influenced much of twentieth-century European and American furniture design and has become indelibly linked with innovation in nineteenth-century furniture production. Although first created in Austria in the 1840s and ’50s, Thonet bentwood furniture was almost immediately imported, retailed, and widely used in the United States. The rocking chair […]

Hacking Infinity, Shoes

Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen collaborated with Japanese shoe designer Noritaka Tatehana to create a work that challenges and transforms contemporary structure and methods of shoe design. The duo utilized a marriage of traditional handcraft and 3-D printing technology for this strikingly unconventional shoe form. Designed for van Herpen’s 2015 Hacking Infinity collection, the […]

Arch Table (SQN5-T Stainless Steel)

Hybrid Holism

Magnetic Motion

Lightbox Armchair

Spun Chaise (prototype)