Projects designed
with schoopwood ©

Since 2016, ARCA has been co-financing thesis on wood at L’école des Mines. This technology consists in depositing at high speed and very high temperature droplets of molten nanometric material on a wood support, using a cold spray or plasma torch. For labo#1, our ideas are oriented towards augmented wooden objects for table art, sanitary, lighting. Quentin Hirsinger of MateriO has named this technique the schoopwood©, allowing to hybridize the wood with: brass, copper, stainless steel, titanium, zinc, aluminium, bronze, gold… All without any polymer.Objects made with one of the best «designer craftsman» of his generation, Alexandre Echasseriau. [Works produced with the support of the association Les Lauréats de l’Intelligence de la Main® as part of the Labo program. The Bettencourt Schueller Foundation is the main sponsor of the Le Labo Project.]