002 | PRODUCT DESIGN
Material: iron
Size: 20 x 10 cm
Process: iron art casting, 3D scanning, 3D printing
Design: Hannah Friederike Fischer, Milan Friedrich
Realization: Art Foundry Lauchhammer
DNA
A flower vase made of iron
The Vase DNA is an exploration of the craft of iron casting and the preservation of craft and tradition in a digitally influenced present. The project focuses on the digital transformation of a historical reference into a contemporary design language. The starting point for the design is the Lauchhammer Kunstgiesserei, which continues the tradition of Prussian iron casting to this day. The design for DNA is based on the “Fruit Plate with Seahorse” (1830) by the classicist architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The plate was digitally captured using 3D scanning, and sections of the original were transformed into a vase. Schinkel’s signature classicist ornamentation served as reference points for the digital processing, which was deformed, alienated, and transferred to a vase true to scale.
The precision of digital technologies and the element of chance in shaping and alienating combine digital modernity with the analog process of casting. DNA is an innovative approach to making the traces of the past visible in a contemporary object while preserving the original.
Design in collaboration with Milan Friedrich, supported and realized by Kunstgießerei Lauchhammer.
photos: Hannah friederike fischer, milan friedrich, bernd hiepe