finding a comfortable stone to sit on
2016
Portland cement, acrylic
50.8 × 45.7 × 40.6 cm
20 × 18 × 16 in
Price on requestThis series of seats is an exercise in the idea of creating inseparable objects. I fell in love with castable materials and the ways they could “create” a mold from my surroundings. I was really into this YouTube video of molten pewter being poured into an ant colony’s opening and getting a cast of the whole inner workings of the colony. I played around with cements—some that could be manipulated halfway into their cure, some fiber-reinforced—and even colored my mix with vibrant hues. These seats were created by pouring the cement mix into a weather balloon and then placing that balloon inside the cutout of my acrylic frame. I would then compress the balloon from the top and bottom until it swelled around the edge of the acrylic. Once cured, I would pop the balloon, and the cement was trapped in the frame, creating the seat—a comfy one!
Charlie Wynter
he/him
Stockholm, Sweden
@charlie.wynter
Charlie Wynter is a designer and fabricator at SHoP Architects and a longtime maker of things. Co-managing SHoP’s Brooklyn fabrication space, he has honed his skills in machining, metalworking, woodworking, and robotics, among many others. He received his Bachelor of Industrial Design from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and is a born-and-raised New Yorker. Collaborating with designers and fabricators in Brooklyn and abroad is an ongoing passion that fuels his excitement for the growing community of makers and the blurring of disciplines.