TO BE CONTINUED

source: juliencarretero

To be continued deals with creating a real and recognizable uniqueness within serial production. Instead of leaving randomness manage the differences, it uses the repetitive actions existing within the production process as a tool for differentiation. Each piece produced comes as a result of a process applied on the piece that came before. Each piece is then existing because of the others and couldn’t have been designed without the others.
Each layer is casted on top of the one casted before following the exact outline of it. Because of the imperfection of the cast, the object slowly mutates and start designing itself.
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source: dailymodalisboablogspot

“To Be Continued”, o mais recente projecto do jovem designer francês Julien Carretero, apresenta peças de mobiliário únicas que resultam de um método de produção repetitivo e em série.

Na música, uma variante é um elemento perturbador que é aplicado a um tema de modo a modificá-lo. Cada vez que o tema é repetido, é adicionada uma variante. Deste processo resultam vários temas, todos diferentes uns dos outros, mas ainda assim pertencentes a um todo homogéneo.

Inspirado neste princípio, Julien Carretero criou um processo de produção em série no qual a variante faz parte do próprio tema. Assim, ao repetir sistematicamente o tema, são criados vários elementos sequenciais, em que cada um resulta do elemento anterior e dá origem ao posterior. A série de móveis “To Be Continued” nasce da sobreposição de várias camadas coloridas de resina de poliuretano, sendo que cada camada é uma réplica da imediatamente anterior. A variante é uma consequência da imperfeição oculta dessa cópia. As camadas são moldadas a partir de um molde de malha de polietileno, que assume as imperfeições da camada anterior e as adiciona à camada seguinte, resultando num extravasamento que se prolonga por todo o comprimento da peça.

Julien Carretero corta estas formas para criar peças de mobiliário únicas, mas que nascem do mesmo processo repetitivo.
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source: designacademynl

Julien Carretero investigated how the design proces influences and changes the final result. Ever since his graduation his main interest deals with considering the production of objects as a growing process : alive and unpredictable. By often creating his own manufacturing processes he aims at bluring the border between serial and handmade production.
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source: dezeen
French designer Julien Carretero presented his To Be Continued series at the Design Factory Brainport Eindhoven in Zona Tortona last month.

The series of furniture is cast from polyurethane resin one coloured layer at a time. The mould is made from woven polyethylene mesh which takes on the imperfections of the previous casting and adds these inaccuracies to the next layer, resulting in n extrusion which alters along its length.

Carretero then cuts these forms to make pieces of furniture which are unique but came from the same repetitive process.

The project is a development of Themes & Variations, Carretero’s Design Academy Eindhoven graduation project.

The following text is from Carretero:

To be continued deals with a new view on production. It aims at creating unique pieces from a serial and repetitive production method.

In music, a variation is a disturbing element which is applied on a theme in order to modify it. Each time the theme is repeated, a variation is added to it. As a result of this process, different themes are created, all different from each other but nevertheless part of a homogeneous whole.

Inspired by this process, I created a production method in which the variation is part of the theme itself. So, by repeating the theme over and over within a serial production process, each element created results from the one before and leads to the one after. The objects produced are then becoming the complementary and consecutive chapters of a same story.

This collection is made by using a production method in which a theme including a variation is serially repeated. The repeated theme is to cast layers of material on top of each other, each layer being a copy of the layer cast just before. The variation results from the inner imperfection of this copy. Because of this process, the objects are transforming during their own production and are therefore generating their own design.

The systematic repetition of the theme is then creating an object in which its repetitive production method can be read. Then, an irregular extrusion starts to grow which, once cut into pieces, gives birth to a series of objects that are all different from each other but still linked by a shared origin.

The material used is a composite made from a polyurethane resin specifically created for this manufacturing process. The material is dyed in the mass in order to highlight the different steps of the production. The layers are cast in a supple mould made out of a woven polyethylene mesh which perfectly adapts itself to the outline of the existing layers.