Tektites

Studio Furthermore has developed objects made of porcelain foam.

Furthermore produced samples of different clays such as stoneware, porcelain and recipes containing reactive alumina, sodium feldspar and ball clay before settling on parian. Parian is a variant of bisque porcelain similar in appearance to the ultra fine-textured parian marble found in the mountains to the north of the Aegean island of Paros to which it owes it’s name. The designers tried impregnating various kinds of open celled foams to see how each behaved. It was found that the relatively high viscosity of parian slip was advantages during foam impregnation and once fired to 1200°C and cooled, something quite magical remained. The designers found fragments that resembled meteorites. To the touch these fragments felt warm, hard and stone like but bizarrely they felt near weightless also. Tektites are the first collection of foamed ceramic pieces presented by Studio Furthermore.