Tenjam’s Baja 3D Lounge is the company’s first fully 3D printed furniture line, but it’s not the first time Tenjam has rebuilt itself around a new way of making things. Founder and CEO Mike Collins launched the company in 2013 by crowdsourcing furniture ideas from outside designers and cutting the pieces from foam, a scrappy start that eventually gave way to rotational molding as the business grew into pool and school furniture.
“That’s our background, pool furniture and outdoor school furniture,” Mike says. More than a decade later, Baja marks a third act, and it started as an experiment aimed squarely at that first market.
Every seam and contour follows the printing process itself, resulting in a silhouette that looks intentionally unfinished rather than machine perfect.
Mike says interest around Baja began piquing after Tenjam brought the collection to a school furniture show last year, and schools started ordering it. Libraries, museums, and cruise ships followed. He credits the design to a longtime collaborator Nikita Bukoros who worked with Tenjam on earlier projects and came back wanting to build something specifically around what 3D printing can do.
“He designed it. It’s all him. I love it,” Mike says.
The production method sets Baja apart from the rest of Tenjam’s lineup. Where most of the company’s furniture is rotationally molded, Baja is made using a zero waste 3D printing process, producing fluid, layered forms rather than a single smooth mold. Every piece is crafted from high performance PETG, waterproof, rust proof and fully recyclable. Mike notes the pieces don’t float. “It’s the bottom,” he says, meaning each one is weighted to sit on the pool floor rather than drift.
Originally designed for the pool market, the Baja Collection has since found its way into homes, schools, libraries, museums, and even cruise ships.
Color is also a big part of the collection’s identity. Some pieces come in translucent finishes that read as solid and sculptural in daylight and glow once submerged. Others are done in what Mike describes as “colors that look streaky.” Both options are part of what’s driven interest from interior designers working outside Tenjam’s usual pool and school clients.
The Baja 3D Lounge Collection was also named an honoree in the Outdoor Furniture Collection category at Interior Design’s 2026 HiP Awards, held during NeoCon in Chicago. Demand has split cleanly along Tenjam’s existing lines of business. On the residential side, Baja is showing up in high end backyards, often moved straight from the patio into the water. On the commercial side, interior designers working on school and institutional spaces are driving a steady stream of orders.
“We’re getting a lot of orders and trying to keep up,” Mike says.
