The O2 rocking chair by Hrvoje Vulama is made from leftover pieces of discarded wood from earlier works.
Brooklyn-based artist Marc Andre Robinson turns discarded furniture into eye-catching sculptural assemblages.
(via My Modern Met)
File under: New uses for old shutters:
Chairs, made by Junktion, whose work we’ve mentioned here.
(photo via Junktion here)
If the raw materials used to create these chairs appear ugly at first blush, well, they’ve earned the right; for all of their useful lives they’ve served as broom, rake or spade handles, helping people keep their floors and yards tidy. Core77 fave Reinier de Jong has turned these cast-off items to the more aesthetically pleasing, if equally ignominious, task of supporting your ass.
(via Reinier de Jong’s Steel Folding Chairs Have a “Handle” on Re-Use - Core77)
German designers Yanik Balzer and Max Kuwertz, who recently sent us an upcycling project in which they transformed a Euro pallet into a set of three chairs “with almost no waste of material.”
(via From Shipping to Seating: Balzer Kuwertz’s Upcycled Pallet Chairs - Core77)
Needless to say, pallet reuse is a favorite notion at Uncon, see here.
The chairs are the culmination of a project which set out to investigate the concept of sustainability and are constructed from four chairs that were previously in a state which rendered them unusable. The shells are polypropylene and the bases are made from beech. They are finished in colour co-ordinated decoupage made from newspaper and magazine cuttings.
The “favela chair,” designed by brothers Fernando and Humberto Campana (mentioned previously here), was inspired by the architecture of shanty towns, a.k.a. favelas, in the Campanas’ native Brazil.
Each chair is hand-glued and nailed together from scrap wood, making each chair unique.
Photo via SFMOMA, which is one of several museums with a favela chair in its permanent collection.
Spotted in the last slide of this post from The New York Times design blog. (In the NYT piece, check out the LOT-EK lamp made from a detergent bottle!)
Design for Disassembly consists of considering the whole life cycle of a product, from cradle to grave. It is about choosing smart materials for the product that can easily be recycled or reused. It is also about considering the form of the product, that it is easy to disassemble and the materials are separate facilitating the recycling process.
A full, and fully considered assessment, here: Design For Disassembly by Andrea Dahlen « Culture of Design
Hmmm, chairs made from crates, or pallets? (Or both?!)
(Chairs pictured made by roughsouthhome on Etsy)
New uses for old crates, continued:
Upcycle them into furniture.
AutumnWorkshop made the items pictured above.
Leo Kempf’s Tired Lounge is a rocking recliner made of FSC certified birch and upholstered with repurposed tires. The tension is provided by a weave of reclaimed tire strips.
(via mocoloco)
Earlier, this noteworthy example of chairs made from bike tires.
Many more Unconsumption posts about reused tires: here.
Kiki van Eijk reuses the obtainable fabric of a chair to create a unique type of fabric. She took the existing material to the Textile Museum’s Textile Lab to experiment with creating a one-and-only drapery for the chair. She further embroidered images of trees and leaves to mimic her chosen charity Bomenstichting, a tree foundation.
