You can find this chair not that hype. But that’s not the point, would tell you Chris Burton, a MFA student at Savannah College of Art and Design. He sure will be a great designer. Why? Because his creativity lies into the art of turning trash into classy, usable pieces of furnitures. His Repose Lounge chair, in picture, combines plywood with PVC piping cut-offs, which form the slats of the seat and back. Despite the discarded materials, the products are like anew.
“What I’m doing is going beyond sustainability, and thinking about what the future will hold, the thing about recycling is that if we don’t start thinking about what we are throwing away it will eventually affect future generations for good,” Burton explains to the South Magazine (via inhabitat). He recently showcase his works at Savannah’s Red Kite Studio, and if you have the chance to visit it, you would want to turn your house into a repository of former debris.
A thought: On a business scale, the future decade would open a lot of opportunities for designers. Materials become cheap, most of them are free, but their form are already shaped. Designers who show a special ability to think out of the box, out of the original form, should be received extra points for their work.
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