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Jeroen Verhoeven’s graduation project from
the Design Academy Eindhoven is considered
to be an extremely important example
of how technology can be used to create a
truly breathtaking spectacle. The result of a
study into how high tech machinery could be
used in the field of product design, sketches
of old furniture were put into a computer that
translated them into a drawing that could
only be created in the digital world. The Cinderella
table morphs the outline of a baroque
table on one side into a bombe commode on
another at 90 degrees to one another. The
original design is made possible through the
use of a 5 axis CNC milling machine.
Cinderella is about attention and the possibility
to make something unique with an
intelligent machine that is normally used for
mass production,” explains Jeroen. “I had a
labor-intensive decorative table, modelled after
seventeenth-century furniture, industrially
manufactured. We had to push the machines
to their limits to do it. But it’s worth it.”
The Cinderella Table (Carrara Marble), edition
of 6, made in Carrara marble exclusively
for Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London is
a continuation of Jeroen’s plywood version
and can be seen as coming full-circle on his
initial project ‘From Fantasy to Factory’. Jeroen
returns to the artistic by using the medium
of marble; emphasised by the fact that
staturio marble is one of the purest marbles
available and for all sculptors has been the
perfect medium to express their art, Jeroen’s
rediscovery of craftsmanship within an industrial
process has therefore been resolved.
The table lines and elegant curves combined
with the ductile qualities of the staturio marble
make it seem almost organic, as if the
stone has a life of its own.”
Permanent Museum Collection/
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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