Burn It Down (Then Take a Seat)

Most people who typeset fervor to their work tend to be pretty much , uh , over it . ForKaspar Hamacher , it ’s just the start of a newfangled slice . Hamacher , a 32 - year - sometime Belgian furniture shaper , describes his process of design - by - inferno as “ sculpt with the element . ”

In 2010 , after finding Brussels way too cosmopolitan for his tastes , Hamacher retreat to the Belgian countryside , where he hit his pace making furniture from materials sourced from the nearby woods . His most well - known serial , Ausgebrannt(“burned out ” ) , uses fervidness to sculpt wood into stool . Each composition get as a podium , which Hamacher stuffs with paper and set on fire . Using a long underground to blow line on certain section of the Natalie Wood , he ’s able to control the pattern of the combustion , coaxing the form of a throne from the mess — a piece like a glass blower . Then , he douses the whole matter in water supply and sands down the charred exterior .

Hamacher falls on the folksy ending of the “ aleatoric design ” spectrum , an emerge term that denote to fashion designer who use physical phenomenon — and pure chance — to make up one’s mind the class of an aim . Another great example?Jólan van der Wiel , the Dutch designer who uses gargantuan magnets to sculpt chairs . Or , if you ’re on the pyrotechnic beat , the piece of work ofMaarten Baas — who torches illustrious piece of article of furniture and then sells it .