Marcel Wanders (Dutch, born 1963)
Manufactured by Cappellini S.p.A. (Italian, founded 1946)
Airborne Snotty Vase: Influenza
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Marcel Wanders (Dutch, born 1963)
Manufactured by Cappellini S.p.A. (Italian, founded 1946)2001
Airborne Snotty Vase: Influenza
Marcel Wanders (Dutch, born 1963) Manufactured by Cappellini S.p.A. (Italian, founded 1946) →21st Centurydesign
Date
2001
Medium
Polyamide
Dimensions
15 × 15 × 15 cm (5 7/8 × 5 7/8 × 5 7/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by the Architecture & Design Society
Marcel Wanders’s Airborne Snotty Vase is a compelling and humorous example of the creative possibilities enabled by digital fabrication methods, such as high-tech scanning and printing techniques. Here Wanders endeavored to create beauty out of the grotesque by giving visual form to the shape of a human sneeze. Made from an enlarged three-dimensional digital recording of the microscopic mucus particles emitted during a sneeze, this vase was constructed from layers of polyamide powder fused together by heat from a laser beam using rapid prototyping technology. Holes to hold flowers were added to the design during the digital editing stage to transform this biological process into a functional vase.
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