The Thread Wrapping Machine - Anton Alvarez MilanDesignWeek starting from the photographer’s choice

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The Thread Wrapping Machine - Anton Alvarez MilanDesignWeek starting from the photographer’s choiceAnton Alvarez has spent two years developing a machine that spins thousands of metres of brightly coloured thread around pieces of wood and metal to join them, producing solid benches, stools and lamps without traditional joints of any kind. The thread acts as an joining element, allowing the raw material being wrapped to be extremely elaborate without appearing so. Alvarezs work has been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum and is represented by