“The flexibility of our Application Launch Program (ALP) provided the freedom to brainstorm and try new design ideas for the SILQ. For a design-driven company like Steelcase, this was crucial,” explained Lou Rassey, the CEO of Fast Radius. Together, the companies designed, engineered, and produced a custom arm cap for the chair, which was 3D printed at the newly opened headquarters of Fast Radius in Chicago’s West Loop. With this in mind, Fast Radius and Carbon used their respective 3D printing processes to more closely align the design of the SILQ chair with human physiology. Steelcase’s vision for its SILQ office chair is consumer personalization. “Ever since SILQ first debuted, we have continued to experiment with enhancements to the chair’s design, living up to our reputation of pursuing innovation. The additive manufacturing processes from Fast Radius and Carbon enabled us to streamline the already-unique aesthetics of the chair with a lattice structure that also condensed three parts into one,” said Bruce Smith, Steelcase Director of Global Design.įast Radius and Carbon were brought on board to help Steelcase explore how 3D printing could be used to make its product development process better, as well as lower the time it took to bring products to market and differentiate them from the rest of the pack. Now, the company has teamed up with 3D printing companies Carbon and Fast Radius to redesign its award-winning SILQ office chair. Last spring, Michigan-based office furniture manufacturer Steelcase worked with the MIT Self-Assembly Lab to develop an experimental new 3D printing method called Rapid Liquid Printing (RLP) that was used to make furniture, such as Steelcase’s Turnstone Bassline Table.

From chairs and tables to sofas and stools, we here at love a good piece of 3D printed furniture, and many furniture companies all around the world are on board as well.

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