Exhibition finishes soon: check out the ‘Extrusions’ exhibition by British design maverick Thomas Heatherwick. The show boasts “the world’s first single component of metal furniture, extruded by machine” and is showing at Haunch of Venison London until 7th November.

 

‘EXTRUSIONS‘ open until 7th November 2009

HAUNCH OF VENISON

6 Burlington Gardens, London W1S 3ET (020 7495 5050)      

 

The exhibition includes six extruded, mirror polished, aluminium benches made without fixtures or fittings, which have been produced by the world’s largest extrusion machine. 

 

Heatherwick Studio commissioned a specially designed die through which aluminium was ‘squeezed’ into a chair profile, complete with legs, seat and back. The resulting exhibited extrusions are the early prototypes for a final outdoor installation – a metre-long piece that tangles into an extraordinary form, which will be constructed and exhibited in 2010.

 

Images courtesy of Heatherwick Studio.

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