Joachim Froment

Joachim Froment is a Belgian designer whose work focuses on furniture and objects produced using large-scale additive manufacturing. His practice is centered on the use of recycled plastics, digital fabrication, and circular production models.

Education

Froment was trained in industrial and product design in Belgium. His academic background emphasized design engineering, digital manufacturing, and material experimentation, which later informed his interest in additive manufacturing and sustainable production methods. He also has a master's degree from the Royal College of Art in London.

Career

Froment began his professional career working with 3D printing technologies, initially exploring their application beyond prototyping and into functional, full-scale furniture. He became known for experimenting with recycled plastic waste, particularly post-consumer and industrial plastics, which he transformed into usable raw material for large-format 3D printers.

He developed a series of 3D-printed furniture pieces produced from recycled plastic, including seating and structural objects. One of these works, the 0.6 Chair, was presented as an example of monolithic furniture fabricated through extrusion-based 3D printing. His designs typically retain visible layer patterns resulting from the printing process and are produced with limited post-processing. worked on projects that involve local production systems in which plastic waste is collected, recycled, and reused for furniture manufacturing.