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Hand-bent after 3D printing, Oberdoerfer and Krebs' Bend chair


& krebs’ seating rethinks digital fabrication the danish design duo reheats flat 3D-prints and bends them along programmed toolpaths to craft hand-shaped furniture.prefer designboom on google [FEATURED] 3D-prints become hand-bent furniture in copenhagen During 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen, among the emerging designers gathered at Ukurant, Oberdoerfer & Krebs presented 3D-printed seating that leaves the machine unfinished, with heat and hand-bending completing each piece after printing. The Danish studio’s Bend Chair and Bend Stool begin with the familiar language of large-scale extrusion, then shift away from the fixed profile that has come to define much of the field.

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