Cross-sections of teapots embedded in cement blocks

Dutch designer Rolf (no last name, apparently) created a series of cool cross-sections of "teapots and kitschy vases" by embedding them in cement blocks and then sawing them in half: "By cutting the same type of teapot in half, in two different ways, two totally different shapes emerge that are both very characteristic and to a certain, but different degree, recognizable for the shape of a classic teapot."

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SomeGuyNamedMark

Reminds me of the medical displays with the human body parts frozen in Lucite and sawed into sections.
Maarten Tromp

His last name is Bruggink.
mguffin

..and I nitpickingly say that’s a coffee-pot, dammit. But a very cool Pompeii-like iteration of one…
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/L2ZN6W5WHYVOAWIAIRYFOJPJZE Jayarava

The picture is a classic coffee pot surely?
mguffin

Jinx.
SamSam

Dutch designer Rolf (no last name, apparently)

I assume that he was born in Dusseldorf, and that is why they call him Rolf?
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Want “Skull”.
GeekMan

“Rolf; like the muppet.”
ry4n3v4n5

“recognizable for the shape of a classic teapot.” because it is!
andrew cooper

Er, in what way are they ‘totally different’? Perhaps he actually meant ‘almost exactly the same’.
- http://stephan-zielinski.com/ Stephan Zielinski
  
  “By cutting the same type of teapot in half, in two different ways . . .”– so for instance, vertical cut versus horizontal cut. (The web site has an example of a horizontal cut; it’s image 9 of 11.)
  
  Note that even with the “single” cut illustrated, there are differences. In the image above, of the two cross-sections, only the one on the right has handle. Okay, that’s probably because it wasn’t a single cut– there’s a slice a few millimeters thick that’s simply gone– but hey. It’s art. This gives one an excuse to respond to “That’s a coffee pot cut in half” by saying “Is it?”, and looking smug.
cellocgw

And if he embeds a couple hundred teapots and cuts them at a full range of angles, I bet we could come up with some algorithm that recreates the original object based on Bayesian statistics! We could call it “Computer-Aided Concrete Saw Technology”
rabidpotatochip

Well, I was in the mood for just half a pot today.
Greg Webster

While interesting to look at, I’m much more interested in the tools he used to do this. His website doesn’t appear to detail any of that; can someone with knowledge add more info here?
phuzz

He would have got bonus geek points for using the Utah teapot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot