We remember collecting those pull tabs on soda cans when we were younger. Often, they're still collected for fundraisers or charity. Here, we're also seeing them collected into beautiful designs created by Colombia-born industrial designer Carlos Alberto Montana Hoyos:
Carlos Alberto Montana Hoyos created both a chair and a bowl as part of the A la Lata series ("To the Can"). The designs are held together by plastic zip ties, which adds to their appearance as much as the metal tabs themselves.
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Comments (4)
the design is not worth the cost of all that wasted plastic.. you can only really use zip ties once too, so each and every piece used is brand new. then to get all those tabs, he must of bought cases of aluminum canned soda to just pluck that tiny top piece off.
I think this plastic chain-mill, faux shag carpet chair design needs some more consideration.
@quail - That was my immediate thought. It looks kinda cool, but no way could it be an attempt to reuse or repurpose; I'm guessing that wasn't necessarily the idea?
Also, is comfort supposed to be a factor?
Oh! I'm wrong - it *is* supposed to be completely recycled or reused....are they recycled zip ties? (Not reused, but created from recycled plastic?)
As always, applaud the effort.
I'm going to stick with my vote on NOT HOT even with being "recycled" plastic. This is still a huge waste of industrial resources in (re)processing of the plastic. Bottom line is the design is in no way inspiring and continues to look like a huge waste of nonrenewable resources, even in spite of the added tag of "recycled". In most cases the term recycled gives the object an out of jail free card, but in this case just bring the object more shame.
Honestly it just looks like an uncomfortable lawn chair!