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Recycled Clothes Furniture
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The Meltdown Fleece Chair[Edit]
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Designer Tom Price created the Meltdown Fleece Chair from polyester fleece clothing. What a a unique way to use thrown out polyester! His chairs are part of this years Art Co’s, From Here to Eternity, exhibition. According to the Tom Price website: The seat area is created by placing layers of polyester clothing onto a hot steel seat-shaped former. As it heats, the fabric begins to melt, exposing and integrating colours and patterns of the various layers. When cooled the surface is transformed into a rigid, shiny, colourful display of dissolved pattern and colour. Though I certainly find creative ways to use recyclables admirable, the Meltdown Fleece Chair looks to me like my son’s bedroom floor after a week of not giving me his laundry—which has caused me to have several meltdowns over the years.  Plastic is with us virtually from now to eternity: impervious to bacteria, acid, salt, rust, breakage and, in some cases, able to withstand heat, plastic is something of a miracle substance. One hundred years ago, when it was first invented, no one could have anticipated that plastic would present one of our biggest recycling challenges.
(designklub.blogspot)Source: tom-price Via: designklub.blogspot |
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