Jeroen Verhoeven’s graduation project from the Design Academy Eindhoven is considered to be an extremely important example of how technology can be used to create a truly breathtaking spectacle. The result of a study into how high tech machinery could be used in the field of product design, sketches of old furniture were put into a computer that translated them into a drawing that could only be created in the digital world. The Cinderella table morphs the outline of a baroque table on one side into a bombe commode on another at 90 degrees to one another. The original design is made possible through the use of a 5 axis CNC milling machine.
Cinderella is about attention and the possibility to make something unique with an intelligent machine that is normally used for mass production,” explains Jeroen. “I had a labor-intensive decorative table, modelled after seventeenth-century furniture, industrially manufactured. We had to push the machines to their limits to do it. But it’s worth it.”
The Cinderella Table (Carrara Marble), edition of 6, made in Carrara marble exclusively for Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London is a continuation of Jeroen’s plywood version and can be seen as coming full-circle on his initial project ‘From Fantasy to Factory’. Jeroen returns to the artistic by using the medium of marble; emphasised by the fact that staturio marble is one of the purest marbles available and for all sculptors has been the perfect medium to express their art, Jeroen’s rediscovery of craftsmanship within an industrial process has therefore been resolved. The table lines and elegant curves combined with the ductile qualities of the staturio marble make it seem almost organic, as if the stone has a life of its own.”
Permanent Museum Collection/Victoria & Albert Museum, London
