Favorite Repurposed Furniture
I love repurposed furniture, there are so many unique pieces that are so creative, here I want to showcase the best repurposed furniture on the web.
I saw this on this great blog I found on Google - hautenature.blogspot.com It’s made from pennies, It would be cool to use all different kinds of coins from different countries, you could also use coins of different sizes. I love the big generous shape of the chair, it makes you just want to drape yourself on it. The patterns the coins form are also really interesting. Because the chair is so curvy you get these really nice patterns forming on the chair arms.
The fact that there really are not any pronounced chair legs make your eyes focus on the top half of the chair, it almost gives the felling that the chair is floating or hovering. This also helps to emphasis th dramatic organic shape of the chair.
Using coins that have some shine still left on them makes interesting shapes where the light hits the chair.
It’s a really smart use of materials as the chair has been repurposed from coins. I think using different coins would create different patterns but they would have there own interesting shape. I wonder what other furnature could be made out of coins? as coins are relatively small they lend themselves to large curvy shapes.
Check out this cool Hose chair, a classic idea for repurposed furniture from www.chasedeforest.com There modern, sleek, colourful and totally repurposed. Because the garden hose is made from rubber they have a little give in them which make them ideal material for a chair as when you sit in them this chair will fold slightly beneath you for better comfort.
You could also create different and new patterns without having to buy a new chair, just take off the hose and re wire it to suite. You could also use two hoses with different colour rubber to get a collection of colours.
The solid stainless steel frame can be used for out door furniture or indoor.
This artist also makes some great hose baskets, all with bright different colours that really inspire you to take out the washing! These colours could also be used on this chair.
After sleeping oe this for a night I’ve also had another thought, what about coloured hoses that have additional colours lines going through them, I’ll have to try and find an example.
Also by the same artist as above - www.chasedeforest.com I love repurposed furniture but when there done with vintage pieces it takes the design to a whole new level. I guess it’s because these skis have a former life that a lot of materials would envy. Speeding over perfect glass water causing spills and thrills all day long. Just looking at these vintage skis makes you smile. Each ski is unique and has groovy vintage writing on them and some designed patterns and shapes.
The ski shapes make for the perft back rest, arms and legs, so not only is it highly functional it also looks damn cool.
I especially like how you can see the wood grain in the skis, there’s no plastic fantastic of other new age materials that are used today, these are just old school skis with a lot of flavor.
It looks like only a few bolts were used to actually put the ski’s together, maybe some glue as well.
The is called a mag table and is by a Mexican designer by the name of fco.cantu - that looks quite suspect but it’s all I could find on his website at www.coroflot.com It looks very strong as the designer has kept the thinness quite limited and has made it very compressed.
One of the best things I like about this piece of repurposed recycled furniture is that it has such a modern shape, I love the gentle curve of the legs of the table up to the surface of the table, it’s gentle and by doing this there is no need for any extra reenforcement of another type of material or brace. I wonder if there is any wood used for the table top, although these is no appearance of it sloping away.
