Comments on: Fractal Table by Platform Wertel Oberfell

By: dsgnr

dsgnr — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:28:49 +0000

Is not clear from the article the scale of the table, if you haven’t got the chance to see it live you probably don’t understand this is a coffee table.

By: mauro paparo filomarino

mauro paparo filomarino — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:44:39 +0000

very interesting….yes like it

By: oh, please

oh, please — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:48:23 +0000

Creating something beautiful is not a misuse of technology. Making this table doesn’t mean there’s going to be less rapid prototyping around for other people. I can’t believe you’re getting steamed over someone making a funky piece of furniture – it’s not like it’s carved out of elephant bones or anything unethical. It’s a table.

By: God

God — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:45:22 +0000

Nice work Platform but I will have to say that this is utterly wrong.
Calling this object a table is wrong.
Using this technology to produce such scale object is wrong.
It is not because you can do it that you should do it.
You should not educate people to see such misuse of a technology.
Even if it is for self PRing.
It is as wrong as oversized shoulder-pads were in the late 80’s. Everyone thought it was hot… but Time proved it was just not.

Rapide Prototyping is an interesting technology.
Despite the fact that it is absolutely not cost-efficient, given that it will never be a way to “mass-produce” object, it is a way for the designer to produce scaled models and have a threedimensional visualisation of their project.

I think saying that “in the future” you will have personal 3D printers is stupid and dangerous.
Humans are projecting their dreams of omnipotency.
The world is fucked-up enough without having wannabe creative people adding more useless, poluting objects in the wilderness. Designers are already doing a great job at this.
Such technology will exist but should not be accessible to the mass.

People should learn to cut down on useless things and enjoy simple
pleasures. Technology is not the answeer to lonelyness, Death and will not make you live forever.

By: zuy

zuy — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:41:48 +0000

thanks Marc : is it Ok to put food on it?

By: marc

marc — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:42:48 +0000

This part is produced in 1 element (without cut&glu)
The material is Epoxy from a home-made Materialise SLA machine ( the biggest in the world !)

By: Viktor Mari

Viktor Mari — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:03:58 +0000

WOW….. no chair will look good with it because it would most likely be the most beautiful thing in the home

By: sam

sam — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:32:42 +0000

nice one.
i like a lot.

By: rebecca

rebecca — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:59:11 +0000

I know where Jeff K is coming from-

I love the idea of the technology, but at this point I want to see things that are hot, WET, animal, vital, coming from these machines; and maybe more importantly, from the hands of the designers who control them.

By: zuy

zuy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:04:17 +0000

the future is here and there…In the future as we see it now, the richest could buy many rapid prototyping product.s.. and the poorest not Ikea products