Furniture
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Swedish furniture giant IKEA has recognized the benefits of 3D printing, launching limited 3D printed collections and exploring the technology with partners such as UNYQ. Most recently, the company released a series of DIY 3D printed add-ons to make its existing products more accessible to those with special needs. The…
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Plastic consumption and plastic pollution are key contributors to the globe’s climate crisis. A non-renewable material, plastic has become a ubiquitous part of our day-to-day lives, as we buy products made of it and too frequently throw it away. As plastic continues to take its toll on our environment, it…
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Though we often write about how 3D printing is impacting automotive design, we don’t often see the technology being used to augment the display of a vehicle. As BMW recently demonstrated, however, 3D printing can be used to take an automotive unveiling to a whole new level. Earlier today, the…
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Consumer 3D printing is an interesting sector at the moment. While some areas, like 3D printed eyewear, may feel a bit saturated, others are almost completely untapped. German company Sandhelden is a good example of a company seeking to leverage 3D printing in a pretty unique way: by offering a…
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Since as early as 2014, Dutch designer Lilian van Daal has sought to combine digital manufacturing practices, such as 3D printing, with bioinspired design to create stunningly complex and original pieces of furniture and art. The Arnhem-based designer recently presented her latest project: a 3D printed chair called Radiolaria #1,…
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Furniture company Steelcase recently enlisted the help of 3D printing companies Fast Radius and Carbon to redesign and upgrade its award-winning SILQ office chair using additive manufacturing. Working together, the partners designed, engineered and 3D printed an arm cap for the chair which can be customized to the user’s body.…
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Chimak3D, a leading Argentinian manufacturer of professional grade 3D printers, presented life-size a tribute sculpture of Lionel Messi at the Fimaqh exhibition, an international machine fair that takes place in Tecnópolis, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The sculpture, measuring 1.70 meters in height, is a tribute to Argentina’s top football player – one…
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Webert is an Italian high end bathroom products design studio and, like other high-end design companies, has begun toying around with metal AM for production. The revolutionary and unique One Series is the new Webert 3D printed faucet collection that leverages stainless steel 316 to integrate the extraordinary geometric potential of…
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Steelcase, founded in 1912, is the largest global B2B contract furniture company in the world. In a competitive, innovation-driven market, Steelcase designers have to work quickly and efficiently in order to develop winning products. A key process in furniture design is the testing of new ideas through model-making. Accurate models…
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BigRep‘s Head of Vertical Marketing Gil Lavi visits the Keter Plastics factory in Israel to show how the company is able to save thousands of dollars on real-size prototypes of its plastic furniture items. Keter uses BigRep’s large-scale industrial 3D printing technology to produce fast prototypes for its new industrial designs. This…
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