Design Lab #12: Metal in flux. From casting to form

As part of the experimental Design Lab series at the Museum of Decorative Arts, students will be devoting themselves to a material and a technique that were among the innovation drivers of production and design in the 19th century: it is about a central material of modernity, namely iron and metal art casting, which could also be described as the precursor of digital 3D printing technology.

Image above: Mittelteil eines Ziergitters