Jólan van der Wiel

Jólan van der Wiel creates a novel method of manufacturing and designing a Gravity Stool nominated in the furniture category. Jolan van der Wiel has designed a medieval looking yet highly modern 'magnet machine' that can make stools from recycled metal shavings. The way it works is that he positions magnetic fields above and below a container of polarised material containing metal shavings embedded into a plastic material. In order to form and determine the shapes of his furniture pieces, the hanging units are pulled down and then released apart, in which the substance follows, draw upwards by varying magnetic forces, letting gravity and magnetism determine the shape of the stool. It is magical because each Stool produced by his machine is always unique in shape. Shad Thames, London, UK, 19th March 2013

Location: Shad Thames, London, UK

Photographer: Richard Keith Wolff

Jólan van der Wiel

Jólan van der Wiel creates a novel method of manufacturing and designing a Gravity Stool nominated in the furniture category. Jolan van der Wiel has designed a medieval looking yet highly modern 'magnet machine' that can make stools from recycled metal shavings. The way it works is that he positions magnetic fields above and below a container of polarised material containing metal shavings embedded into a plastic material. In order to form and determine the shapes of his furniture pieces, the hanging units are pulled down and then released apart, in which the substance follows, draw upwards by varying magnetic forces, letting gravity and magnetism determine the shape of the stool. It is magical because each Stool produced by his machine is always unique in shape. Shad Thames, London, UK, 19th March 2013

Location: Shad Thames, London, UK

Photographer: Richard Keith Wolff