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Art. Nr.: 328
Breeding Tables No. 1172
Entwurf Clemens Weisshaar - Reed Kram, München-Stockholm 2008, Ausführung K. N. AB, Stahl, lasergeschnitten und gekantet, pulverbeschichtet, Prägegravur, Höhe 74 cm, 259 x 95 cm. (DR)
Unikat.
Provenienz: Vom derzeitigen Eigentümer direkt beim Künstler erworben. The break-through for Kram and Weisshaar was the project Breeding Tables. In this body of work their approach towards intelligently interwining product development and media design, while taking advantage of the newest technological possibilities, is paradigmatically outlined. The product of Breeding Tables is tables - not a single one, but an indefinite number of diffenrent tables. With the Breeding Tables KRAM/WEISSHAAR bid farewell the idea of designing one product to be mass manufactured as a reproduction of the original prototype. In fact they have developed a process that allows for the production of a multitude of individually different pieces of furniture - tapping the full potential of current production technologies. Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram have conceived a process hinged upon custom computer code that generates an indefinite number of solid construction surfaces. Taking into account the specifications of parameters like height, depth, width and load capacity, these computer-generated cutting patterns and associated processing informations orchestrate computer controlled laser cutters and bending machines, and seamlessly materialize three-dimensional corpuses. The flexibility of present-day machines allows for the continuous implementation of modifications. The opening now emerges for the constant production of unique pieces under the conditions and within the budget of mass production - a principe extraordinarily adopted by KRAM/WEISSHAAR for the Breeding Tables. As Ronald Jones puts it, they synchronise form, materials, and process in a Prouveian manner.
The Term “breeding”bundles several concepts central to the project. Each of the Breeding Tables is “bred” according to algorithmic presets and stands equal and individual. There is no longer an ultimate product. The issue of the distinction between the original and its copy becomes irrelevant. Each table is representative of an algorithmic model and simultaneously in her uniqueness, a model for further objects of her “species”. In tune with contemporary production facilities and conditions, the Breeding Tables stand for a new form of integrated product and process development – and thus for a new way of thinking design.
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