Nature is the perfect system. When one thing dies, it goes back to the earth to make rich sediment for future life.

Circularity. Regeneration. Connection. This is the inspiration for the Endless Loop Monolith – a one-of-a-kind piece designed by fine artist Mike Han.

Here everything comes into balance. Cut from the same locally salvaged ash wood as the counterparts in the Endless Loop Series, we digitally cut each of the artist’s brush strokes into the face of the ash monolith. On its opposing side, a convex mirror image of the brush stroke emerges in a 3D printed object formed with bio-resins made from the sawdust recaptured during the milling and digital cutting steps. An endless loop, waste generated on one side of the monolith regenerates itself in wanted form on its other side.

More than an art piece for collection, the monolith is an emblem of living life in balance with the natural ecosystems that sustain us. In this regard, it is our whole and endless story.

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A metaphor for circularity, the Endless Loop Table - designed by Baillie Mishler and Lauryn Menard of PROWL Studios - borrows its material from an ash tree salvaged by a local mill and transforms it into a meticulously crafted image of its very inspiration – the ash tree.

Deeply rooted, the piece stands upon a stout trunk with digitally fabricated and hand-crafted fluting that echoes the bark of the ash tree and conceals its intricate engineering. The fluting spreads seamlessly into a rounded hand-finished hardwood canopy that forms its tabletop.

Honoring the tree in its final form, and throughout the process of re-creation, this piece is a beacon of possibility showing us that how we make things can be every bit as considerate, impactful, and timeless as the thing we make.

Endless Loop Stools - designed by Baillie Mishler and Lauryn Menard of Prowl Studios – accompany their Endless Loop Table and reinforce the potential of additive manufacturing, technology, and imagination to forge objects that we love without creating more waste.

Here the collaboration team recaptured the sawdust during the milling of the locally salvaged ash wood for the table and upcycled it into proprietary bio-resins that take the form of pellets. These pellets then feed our large format 3D printers which print each of the stools in one printing motion. We then cap each with hand finished bases to create the same stout and seamless footing as the table.

A remarkable meeting of technology, traditional milling, and craftsmanship, the stools echo the table’s aesthetic roots and, at once, stand for the progress that might happen at the confluence of circularity, technology, and our imaginations.

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Transforming plants into powerful sculpture, the one-of-a-kind Endless Loop Light Sculptures designed by the team at Model No. enlighten and resolve the conflicts inherent in design, creation and consumption.

Geometric shapes stand separate but symmetrical through their shared negative space. Ash hardwood and bio-resin upcycled from saw dust fuse by way of a common local origin. Traditional milling and craftsmanship meet 3D printing technology to make something functional and desirable from something left for waste.

Like all pieces in the Endless Loop Series, we make these sculptures from locally indigenous ash wood. The saw dust - recaptured during the milling and fabrication steps – has been upcycled into proprietary bio-resins for 3D printing. Employing 3D printing and digital manufacturing, we then precisely engineer and make its sculptural rings and translucent shells to transmit a steady glow.

More than arresting and functional, these 10’ sculptures cast light on the relationship between the objects that we want and the waste we create in making them.

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