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VENEER BLEED

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Plywood hot bending is one of the most common processes in furniture production. After the plywood is hot pressed into shape with a mould, the size of thin layers of wood is often larger than the actual size needed, and the extra parts will be cut off and sanded after the moulding is completed. 

This is like bleeding in the printing industry. (Bleed refers to the part reserved for easy cutting when printing to retain the effective content of the screen). Therefore, the original size of the production process is always larger than the finished product size. The longer part has to be cut off after printing.

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Plywood after hot pressing, ready for edge trimming

If the retention of the 'bleeding' of the plywood is seen as tolerance of “faults', can the thin layers of wood be seen as a

spontaneous aesthetic in production, with the layers of wood crossing each other to form the texture?

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Work in Progress for Veneer Bleed

Zhekai Zhang is constantly looking for suitable methods to make the production process have new uses. This texture, formed naturally based on the production process rather than the designer’s intervention, can spontaneously produce a new set of design languages.

Emphasize the surprise at the end of the material with a simple U-shaped combination of a single chair and a side table. White wax oil for wood keeps traces of artificial smearing.

In the mass production system, the possibility of "fault tolerance" is expanded by reconstructing specific production stages, which may soften the industrial production of objects and add individual charm and originality to furniture. In the interpretation of Zhekai Zhang's design, uniqueness may be the footnote of "fault tolerance".

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