Meet Your Maker
Ever wanted to be a designer? One of the biggest parts of the job is working with your manufacturer to turn a concept into a real product. Dwell asked several designers to share their favorite manufacturing experiences.
Patricia Urquiola on the T-Table by Kartell
T-Table stands for transgenic table.It is an object that seems to have grown naturally in plastic while acquiring some alien genes. It is a technological fossil. The design is in a direct contrast with the usually clean-edged plastic objects that we know. The nature-inspired design, together with the crisp transparency and soft colors of the plastic, create a dialogue between natural and artificial reality.
The decoration of the table is not superficial but becomes clearly structural. The T-Table is a hybrid between a molded and an extruded product. The main technical challenge consisted in the fact that the top and the legs had to come out of a single mold, which greatly determined the design.
What most struck me in the process of developing the T-Table together with Kartell was the beauty of the steel mold, the tool that allows the injection of the table. It is a piece of art of its own, shiny and of an extreme precision. It is the negative of the object in which the emptiness generates fullness. It calls back the sensations of my childhood on the beach, building sand castles with a simple plastic bucket. The industrial context is completely different, but I like to think of my professional reality in a playful way.
Chris Kabel on The Shady Lace Parasol
In early 2003 Droog Design invited me and several other Dutch designers to collaborate with the local industries around Lille to design products for the Lille 2004 Cultural Capital of Europe festival. I chose a lace factory.
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