With SOLID, Patrick Jouin makes us aware of stereolithography’s great potential, perhaps inaugurating a new age for design creation made possible by this remarkable manufacturing technique. The possibilities and advantages of an industrial-scale tool that produces infinite quantities of identical objects with maximum simplicity and without additional costs are clearly palpable. Furthermore, pieces previously impossible to fabricate with a mold can now take form. This form is based upon establishing a new approach to the creation of the object. Thus, SOLID is about inventing a process. Patrick Jouin first focused exclusively on the material. Once shaped, the issue of how this material may then evolve and grow into the object itself was considered. The material forms of the table base, SOLID T1, and chair, SOLID C2, are reminiscent of blades of grass or ribbons waving in the wind and weaving together. These structural objects have a transcendental quality of being caught in motion, as if alive in spite of their solidity. Paradoxically, it is only for a technical and structural purpose that the forms have the illusion of continuously evolving.

The Solid C2 chair is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, St. Louis Art Museum (St Louis), the Pinakoteck Art Museum in Munich and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

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