Looking at the history of ornaments they were always added as a visual decorative element to an already fully functioning structure. In our Goo lounge chair the previously futile decorative ornaments gain a structural importance and add to the actual functionality of the object. The internal structure of the chair is constructed from elements of an existing wooden chair. The chair structure is completely covered in a clay-like wood goo which is made from sawdust and wood glue. For us this wood goo, as a material, represents the predecessor of the 3D printing wood filament since it connects material qualities of “ordinary wood” and wood filament. The wood-goo shows wood as very mouldable and flexible. This idea is taken to the next step by the 3D filament which basically is wood fibre heated and then by the 3D printing technology shaped into the desired shape.
We show these steps of material manipulation in the chair as we have the rough Goo running over the whole structure of the chair and then at points morphing into the 3D printed ornaments. The Goo supports the ornaments and vice versa.