There have been quite a few 3D printed chairs on 3DPI: the Solid C2 chair that was added to the Stedelijk Museum, the ergonomical cellular loop chair, the redesigned Eames chair, and the Diavolo chair, just to name a few. Daniel Widrig’s “The Degenerate Chair”, however, is the first 3D printed chair to be made from plaster, sugar and sake. Using a low-cost 3D printing method, the artist was able to take his original CAD design for a gnarly looking stool and print it with a combination of plaster, sugar and rice wine. The materials he chose ultimately cut down on cost, compared with other large-scale 3D printing methods, according to design boom. The Degenerate Chair was commissioned by the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) Center’s Naturalizing Architecture exhibition in Orleans, France.…
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