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It’s Sunday. You won’t yell at us for this art/DIY design chair, will ya?

TrashFormaciones is a Spanish collective lead by the Montoya brothers. Their approach? “We think, like Beaudelaire, that the modern artist is one who gathers the term of his art between trash and rubbism,” they explained.

One of the past creations struck our attention. In short: it’s a bathtub, that you cut in the middle, and stake both parts to make it a cool armchair. Of course, it’s not the lightest armchair that we can show you, but this wouldn’t cost you a lot.

A variant is to cut the bathtub on its other direction. The result is a two-person sofa or a park bench with this big advantage: Rain drops won’t rotten its materials.


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