What design caught your eye during the London Design Festival this year? Creature-shaped forms are huge now, and we wonder if skeleton shapes are a thing to observe?
Swiss designer Fabio Hendry unveiled a collection of skeletal furniture, drawing inspiration from the reinforcing steel used in construction, at Cromwell Place during the London Design Festival.His design practice lays often on overlooked materials. Hendry shaped the pieces for this project inspired rebar cages sourced from demolition sites, which have inspired artists and designers many times.

Titled Re Bar, this innovative collection was developed by Hendry’s studio, Hot Wire Extensions and created in collaboration with gallerist Max Radford.

The process involves creating solid, bone-like structures by passing an electric current through wires embedded in discarded 3D-printing powder. He embedded copper wires in a bed of waste nylon powder, a byproduct of the 3D-printing process known as selective laser sintering (SLS), before passing an electric current through the metal.

Heating elements inside the pipes cause the SLS powder to melt and fuse with the wire substructure, transforming it into solid, organic, creature and skeleton-like shapes.

Ph: Richard Round-Turner

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