Solid C2 Chair

French industrial designer Patrick Jouin uses the 3-D printing technique known as stereolithography to produce furniture such as this chair. Jouin drew the chair in a computer program which converts the design into a digital 3-D model. The computer files are then connected to a laser that “prints” the chair, layer by layer, in liquid resin. Contact between the laser beam and resin cures the resin, hardening it to produce a 3-D object that is built up in strata like a stalagmite. The poetic inspiration for "C2" was nature, the patterns created by criss-crossing blades of grass that bend, twist, fold, and turn corners.