WertelOberfell

WertelOberfell is a design firm that creates functional and decorative sculptures and housewares using the 3D printing process.  There are a number of designers that are working for the firm currently and they seem to be a leader in the European market of 3D printed consumer goods.  Many of their designs are based on relations to nature—including lights, fixtures, tables, and decorative elements that are based on honeycombs, flowers, trees, and insects.

WertelOberfell was founded in 2007 by Gernot Oberfell and Jan Wertel. Both studied Industrial Design in Stuttgart at the State Academy of Arts.  “Before the founding of their London based practice, they worked for several years in Ross Lovegrove’s Studio X, designing for international clients including: Artemide, Yamagiwa, Louis Poulsen, Moroso, Serralunga, Sony, VitrA/Turkey, Issey Miyake, and Tag Heuer. In 2010, WertelOberfell opened a second studio in Munich.  Their work ranges from furniture, lighting and industrial products, to experimental research pieces.”

Information and galleries of products can be found at http://www.mgxbymaterialise.com/designers/designer/detail/detail/15

Or by visiting their website at

www.werteloberfell.com

The Egg Wave

Also produced by Jan Wertell and Gernot Oberfell is a cool and unique functional sculptural design called the “Egg Wave.”  The Eggwave is a (somewhat) beautiful transformation of the cardboard like containers that hold shelled chicken embryo, aka. the egg.   The EggWave container creates beauty in it’s lustrous finishes or computer generated contours that seem to flow freely over the containers many ovular formations (where eggs are stored).    The container is made of up a two parts, a bottom, and a top, which have clips that adhere the two sections together allowing the fresh storage of up to 8 eggs.   Images and information can be found at

 http://mocoloco.com/fresh2/2012/12/14/eggwave-by-jan-wertel-gernot-oberfell.php

3D Fractal Table

The Fractal.mgx table has been recently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Modern Art section.  It is a European design that was based on fractal Geometry.  The Fractal.MGX, designed in 2007 by Gernot Oberfell, Jan Wertel and Matthias Bar of Germany, combines what seems to be a mathematically generated and natural organic root system with a 3D printed intricately woven table top.  In 2010 they donated the table to Met, where it has been on display ever since.

More images and information can be found at http://fabbaloo.com/blog/2012/12/31/design-of-the-week-fractalmgx-table.html

Or at the design website.

 

Check out more pics of the fractal table by clicking here. 

http://www.designflick.com/2012/05/fractal-table-by-platform-wertel.html