
Parisian-based designer Yahïa Ouled-Moussa re-uses old canvas belts, weaving them onto discarded wooden chairs. We like these colorful versions, but there's also a military one, incorporating old canvas military belts in green, brown, and beige. (We'd also cut off the loose ends, but that's just us...What do you think?)
Chairs are available by commission, or at his Paris boutique, Yoming Gallery.
Via: The Cool Hunter (who also had the only photos we could track down)
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Comments (19)
Blech. Looks like a student project.
I am amused by the chair choices - I have 10 of almost the exact chair on the left. I am thinking about painting them; I would never consider anything like this.
Not a fan...
Bah.
Who is 'We'?
Siamese twin writers? You'd still have to share one brain to claim 'we'.
my cat would love this chair
hideous
"re-uses" leads me to think the belts were once used and they are now being recycled. I bet those are new, and wasting the materials as opposed to recycling them. You could buy the canvas straps instead of buying new belts.
Designer?
Cut off the ends , it is Really Silly.
It Looks like a Cubscout project gone bad!
That's a whole lotta ugly!
the metal buckles would scratch my floors.
What this immediately brings to my mind is the traditional leatherwork of the countries north and south of the Sahara -- & since the designer is Algerian, this is probably a witty visual reference to work like this:
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/may23/gifs/tuareg_bag.jpg
This would be immediately obvious to people in Paris, given French ties to the Maghreb and Sahel.
I like it, it's fresh, contemporary and evokes Africa.
not hot.
unacceptable
My friend Debbie did this with old leather belts she bought at the Good Will. Her chairs look amazing.
I like these chairs, but I wouldn't recommend them for actual use. A chair like this can become a wonderful piece of art if placed in the right spot, such as a corner of a hallway, or some other area where you might put a sculpture. It becomes a conversation piece. And if it makes the cat happy as well, life is even better.
I'm not a fan either. I like the colors and all, but the hangy things, not as much.
The colors look great together; it would make for an amazing cat toy.
I see the novelty in it, but it is not particularly appealing, and looks really haphazardly put together.
I was thinking of it as a work of art.
If you wear shorts or a skirt, the hanging sections would either scratch or tickle your legs.