'Chinese manufacturing is usually famous for large quantity, low quality and very limited new material and technology. So for Chinese designers, creating low quantity products with high quality in both design and manufacturing has always been a tougher task than it is in most other places. I have been trying to create high specification products with typical Chinese industrial materials and basic technics, through unusual design and engineering, and these tables are the first prototypes in this direction – which I believe could be another route for “Chinese design” aside from reinterpreting the traditional decorative elements.
The exposed sunken screws bolt together the table top with all the “branches” of table legs, forming dozens of stable triangles, which make the table top part of the frame to share the stress in the legs, thus material needed to make a table is minimized. the 2-metre dining table has a top with 6mm even thickness, from edge to centre, without any space technology or exotic material, just thin steel rods, aluminium sheet and a roadside workshop, and the randomnly spreaded fastening screws also become the decorative elements here. Cut, bent, welded and powder coated.'
See more at Zhili Liu' s web site.. Nice work but not sure about the Cornflake packet welding mask though...
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Don't mean to be rude but that Chinese worker you have depicted in that photo is by western safety standards a complete joke, what kind of face mask is that? Is he tig welding with that thing on!!??
If consumers wish to buy your products they choose to support a safety standard which we in the west would have a stop work strike over! Realize when you venture into Chinese manufacturing you undermine the very society that we in the west live in. Our forefathers fought for over a century to free us from that abuse. Now you, the very same people spit in the face of Chinese by exploiting them like you yourself were.
Set a new challenge....see if you can successfully design for a western standard of manufacturing.
Regards - Andrew
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