Foreword

John Lee Beatty

As I sit here writing at a borrowed desk, three little Chippendale chairs are scattered under the screen. They seem to be in 1/4” scale, but I know enough to know they might be in most any scale. The fact that they are absolutely identical is no longer noteworthy to me, nor is their existence – casually discarded as they are – especially remarkable. All of which goes to show just how remarkable 3D printing is.

As supposedly “mainstream” or “old school” a designer I might be labeled, I was astonished to find upon examining the production of The Nance, which I designed for Broadway at the Lyceum Theater, that whatever looked the most hand-painted was actually computer-painted and that which might have looked mechanically ...

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