Design Secrets: Furniture

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“A few years ago, Moroso furniture celebrated their 50th anniver-

sary by inviting fifty designers and architects to submit ideas

about furniture linked to rapid prototyping. All we had to do was

send digital data, and they’d create 3D images and put the design

ideas into an exhibition,” he recalls. “This intrigued me because I

thought, we design a beautiful thing, and send to them, and don’t

concern ourselves with how it’s made.” Grcic glibly describes the

result of this exercise as a “squashed piece of a round thing with

holes in it. I saw it as a seating island for public spaces, where

comfort ...