Joris Laarman, Bone Furniture, 2006. Cast Aluminum.

The chairs form was influenced by the bone growth influenced optimization software developed by Claus Mattheck in 2004. Nature’s beauty, logic, and strength were tapped to arrive at the form of this piece. However, the software was not used to create the lightest, strongest chair possible, but rather “as a high tech sculpting tool to create elegant shapes with a sort of legitimacy.” Algorithmic software was used to arrive at a form deemed elegant, but not utilized to its full extent. Instead, aesthetics and intention of the designer trumped what could have been a potentially interesting venture. Ultimately, the chair resembles Art Nouveau, but in a new modern aluminum finish.