The Trash Cube: Making Furniture Out Of Waste
Swiss artist and designer Nicholas Le Moigne has created a remarkable sculptural stool made out of discarded materials used to create roofing tiles. Dezeen explains:
Tons of material produced by Eternit are thrown away every year. The idea of the Trash Cube was to design the most simple object recycling as more scraps as possible. The Trash Cube is made of Eternit (which is the name of the Swiss factory and of the material they produces).
Made of cement and fibers this material is used for moulding tiles for architecture, flowerpots or some outdoor objects. Tons of left over material is thrown away every year and the purpose of the Trash Cube was to find a way to recycle most of it. The idea was to design the most basic mould in which the workers would throw scraps as soon as they have finish to mould the other pieces in production.
[via Dezeen]
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| TOPICS: | Arts & Culture, Design & Architecture, Environmental / Green, Home & Garden |
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