FutureFactories is about the digital generation of one-off products. It explores some nether ground between the hand crafted (digitally) and the industrially produced. In Holy Ghost Lionel has taken Philippe Stark’s iconic Louis Ghost chair and fitted an alternative back and arms, “I’m not suggesting that the design needs improving” states Dean, “I am pointing out the creative possibilities for adaptation and personalisation that digital technologies offer”.

The starting point for each new back is a virtual design template that is constantly rebuilding itself in real-time. No two iterations are the same and every hybrid chair manufactured is unique. The chair back, resembling an alien, organic, button-leather, acts like a sprung mattress with an interconnect network of nylon springs. Two chairs have been commissioned by Fast-UK and Folly for the exhibition ‘Perimeters, Boundaries, and Borders’.

Produced in partnership with 3T RPD Ltd, their manufacture demanded some of the largest machines laser sintering available.

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