Chair from skate deck scraps
Stumbled onto this chair built from the remains of manufacturing skateboard decks.
You can get one for a mere $3,500
A September 2008 home feature and video tour of Etnies footwear founder Pierre Andres Senizergues featured cool and clever midcentury modern-inspired furniture created from castoff wheels and decks from skateboard manufacturing. Now it seems that Gil Le Bon De Lapointe, the designer who teamed with Senizergues to produce the collection under the name Skate Study House, is exploring new turf.
Made from 40 recycled skateboard deck frames laminated with water-based glue and hand-sanded, the Cobble chair, shown here, seems to be a 180-degree ollie — leaving the influence of Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson in the sawdust for the more organic modern style of hippie-era California studio woodworkers.
At $3,500 the limited edition piece will either strike consumers as a functional work of art or a well-intentioned green design wipeout.
3 comments
stupid, expensive, and for something that looks uncomfortable….idiots
give it to a bum during the winter so he can stay warm
and let him burn that piece of junk
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