Laser-cut book is a scale model of artist's house

Your House is a beautiful, laser-cut book sculpture by Olafur Eliasson, a rendering of his house in 1:85 scale. As Eric Gjerde notes on Origami Tessellations, this is beautiful in and of itself, but more interesting in terms of what it portends for a future of widespread laser-cutter use.

It’s made of 454 slices, bound together in a book. Apparently it was quite a difficult process to put together, due to the complex constraints that were put upon the paper. From what I understand it was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.

The folks that produced the book are a laser-cutting house that specializes in paper-cutting, called Visionen in Papier (Visions in Paper). I’m actually even more interested in what they are capable of doing, and the kinds of services they provide- check out some of their other examples of their work.

Link to German story, Link to English story (via Cribcandy)

[#1 posted by Eric Gjerde , January 23, 2008 4:45 PM]

I'm a little bit embarrassed that this is being picked up here - I knew very little about this project, or for that matter Eliasson himself, but I was really interested in the laser cutting!

After this post and several emails from readers, I learned that a copy of this book was on display at the Walker Art Center here in my hometown of Minneapolis, just blocks from my office. Quite serendipitous.