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.MGX is excited to announce that the Damned.MGX chandelier will be on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London from July 14 until October 18. As part of the “Telling Tales” Exhibition, the now iconic chandelier will support the museum’s exploration of Heaven and Hell and the narrative potential of objects.

Designed by Dutch architect Luc Merx, the Damned.MGX chandelier was produced using 3D printing as one piece, without joints or seams, and would be impossible to produce using other manufacturing methods. It appears as a hovering mass of writhing nudes – opulent and bombastic – and recalls the classical motif of the fall of the damned.

Founded in 1857 with the aim of collecting works that could teach the principles of good design, the Victoria & Albert Museum is often regarded as the world's greatest museum of art and design, with collections spanning 3000 years of history.

Telling Tales
Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road, London
July 14 to October 18, 2009
For further details, visit www.vam.ac.uk 

About .MGX by Materialise

As the design division of Materialise, .MGX works with innovative 3D printing techniques and some of the top designers, architects and artists from around the world to produce architectural models, art pieces and other custom projects, as well as a range of exceptional lighting objects, furniture, interior goods and accessories – all with a degree of detail, complexity and speed that cannot be offered by other production techniques.


Through the specific technologies of stereolithography and selective laser sintering, objects are brought to life primarily as single pieces, without joints or seams, through the principle of ‘additive fabrication’, whereby material is transformed from one state to another (liquid to solid or welding of material particles by laser beam). In most cases, .MGX creations would be impossible to produce using other manufacturing methods.

Recent .MGX collaborations have included projects with artists such as Frank Stella and Peter Jansen, as well as Asymptote, Future Systems, SOM, Foster & Partners, UN Studio and other leading architectural and design firms.


The .MGX line of design products is currently exported to over 20 countries worldwide; has received many awards, including two Red Dot Design Awards; is featured in numerous international museums, including the MoMA in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris; and regularly appears in top design and decor publications such as: Icon, Surface Magazine, Elle Decor and Vogue Living.