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July 26, 2006

Technology Changing Shape of Design
(International Herald Tribune, July 16, 2006)

Is shapeless the shape of things to come? Innovations by the Belgian company Materialise.MGX are making their mark on furniture design by combining shifting organic forms with digital-age savvy. New objects like Assa Ashuach's OMI.mgx light utilizes a pliable plastic developed by Materialise that allows the buyer to shape the lamp in a nearly infinite number of ways. Frenchman Patrick Jouin's ribbon-like SOLID chair and a flexible stool (the One_Shot, which proved popular at the Milan Furniture Fair earlier this year) are similarly constructed via computer-guided lasers that carve liquid resin or polyamide powder into creations far more intricate than is possible via conventional manufacturing means.

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