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We fell HARD for artist Max Lamb<\/a>‘s work after we sat on a Lamb stool owned by our friend A.S.C. (Sandy) Rower, President of the Calder Foundation<\/a> (more on that big adventure soon). The stool was beautiful and comfortable and made by an ancient process of sand casting: Lamb goes to the beach and makes a mould in the wet sand, then pours molten pewter (heated on a camping stove) into it, waits for it to set, then digs out the strangely elegant stool with its\u00a0roughly granulated legs.<\/p>\n

Lamb embarked on his ad hoc method of sand-casting after he was unable to afford to have a professional foundry do the casting process for him. He remembered building sand castles as a kid, and knew he could figure out <\/strong>sand casting himself. He publishes videos of his work process, because he wants other people to know how he does it. Watch \u00a0him\u00a0sand-casting pewter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then Sandy showed us a picture of some incredible library shelves he’d commissioned Lamb to make for him (below). They were based on another classic Lamb technique:\u00a0carving polystyrene<\/a> (think packing materials and take-out coffee cups) into a usable form (like the chair, above), then spraying it with a polyurethane rubber finish. We love it because, as Lamb says:\u00a0\u00a0“A variety of simple tools and a reasonable amount of energy is all that is required…”<\/em> He makes us believe WE could do something like that,<\/strong>because once you know how something works – the mechanics or internal structure – you can apply that knowledge to improvise; it becomes a foundation for your ideas. We instantly started researching “polyurethane rubber spray” and curiously, kept seeing references to PlastiDip<\/a>, which we’ve already been deep into.<\/p>\n

Says Lamb about his chair: “A process of destruction is used to construct a bombproof chair. By making furniture by hand the unique is achieved and individual beauty inevitable.<\/strong>“<\/em> Which is what A.S.C. Rower got in these amazing library shelves…<\/p>\n

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A.S.C. Rower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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here’s a Lamb Poly table and chair we found…<\/p>\n

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…we discovered all this by sitting on that Max Lamb stool…<\/p>\n

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For more on Max Lamb, check out American Craft Magazine’s illuminating article.<\/a><\/p>\n

Video link: Max Lamb making the Poly Chair.<\/a><\/p>\n

Related posts: \u00a0cool material: rubber paint (+ oscar diaz\u2019 strap bag)<\/a><\/p>\n

more pascal anson: re-imagined silverware<\/a><\/p>\n

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