GoKawiilDanish studio Oberdoerfer & Krebs debuts 3D-printed chairs finished by hand-bending
At Copenhagen's 3daysofdesign exhibition, design duo Jasper Krebs and Bruno Oberdoerfer showed a Bend Chair and Bend Stool made via large-scale 3D printing. Rather than treating the printed object as finished, the pieces contain pre-programmed zones that are reheated after printing and manually bent into their final shape.
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The approach suggests a way to push 3D-printed furniture beyond the fixed, slab-like side-profile shape that has become a common look in the field, by building a manual step into the digital toolpath itself. It points to a hybrid production model where machine output and human craft intervention are planned together rather than treated as separate stages, which could influence how other designers approach large-scale printed furniture.
- Bend Chair and Bend Stool were shown at Ukurant during Copenhagen's 3daysofdesign event
- The furniture is 3D-printed with built-in bend zones, then reheated and shaped by hand
- The project reframes 3D printing as a process that continues after the machine stops, blending digital and manual making
Source: designboom.com — Kat Barandy I Designboom, 2026-10-20
Published there as: “Hand-bent after 3D printing, Oberdoerfer and Krebs' Bend chair”
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