Matthias Pliessnig
Pliessnig is an industrial designer who specializes in making boats, wall panels and benches by steam bending wood. Pliessnig's market includes business lobbies, schools, hospitals and hotels. Steam bending requires many years of experimentation and testing to perfect. I was very impressed with his persistence with experimentation with such a tedious thing to work with throughout the years. He uses light oak wood as his primary wood to do this. This wood is cut, bent, sanded and put together using copper rivets and many clamps. It is then sanded and polished.
This was definitely one of my favorite speakers at Hallmark Symposium. I found his forms and use of steam bending really interesting and also inspirational. It was great to see a unique use of material and process in industrial design. This was the first time I have seen something like this and I'm excited to see what he will take on in the future.
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