About this artwork
Marcel Wanders’s Airborne Snotty Vase is a compelling and humorous example of the creative possibilities enabled by digital fabrication methods, such as high-tech scanning and printing techniques. Here Wanders endeavored to create beauty out of the grotesque by giving visual form to the shape of a human sneeze. Made from an enlarged three-dimensional digital recording of the microscopic mucus particles emitted during a sneeze, this vase was constructed from layers of polyamide powder fused together by heat from a laser beam using rapid prototyping technology. Holes to hold flowers were added to the design during the digital editing stage to transform this biological process into a functional vase.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Architecture and Design
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Artist
- Marcel Wanders
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Title
- Airborne Snotty Vase: Influenza
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Place
- Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Designed 2001
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Medium
- Polyamide
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Dimensions
- 15 × 15 × 15 cm (5 7/8 × 5 7/8 × 5 7/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Architecture & Design Society
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Reference Number
- 2007.61
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