As Abby noted, we noticed a lot of designers producing pieces that were made of recycled or repurposed materials at this year's ICFF. One piece at the show garnered some attention. It was a prototype designed by Nick Demarco, a student, called the "XS chair." (Video and survey after the jump...)
Interestingly enough, none of us AT:LA editors really had any comment on it when we saw it (we noticed it but sort of just kept walking...) However, over at the Freshhome blog, they described it as "...the most stupid piece of Eco Friendly Furniture..." (Ouch!) Read what they had to say about it here. What do you guys think of it?
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could be cool filled with something else. But still only cool in a kids room/ dorm kind of way. Its chunky and would be sticky to sit on. Who wants to sit on a pile of rubbish?
That is terrible
That looks comfortable *insert sarcasm
I think it's great! It's exciting to see some new ideas injected into the design world instead of the same old shit. This one is filled with trash... but what if it was filled with bright pink fabric scraps? I would buy one!
If it was filled with bright pink fabric scraps, the whole room would vibrate. Lame-o.
i think eco friendly furniture has moved away from this aesthetic a long time ago. it seems old fashioned.
It's just a pile of trash.
Wow... Amazingly ugly.
eek! It looks like a really bad student project. IMO, not aesthetically pleasing and not so creative. ok idea poor execution.
You're missing the point here-- this is the XS chair. Art maybe, furniture, no. He's more interested in making a point about our repulsive consumer culture than making furniture. Which is fine. But it's not great design.
This chair reminds me of an installation I saw at the Art Institute of Chicago where the artist had hacked open a stuffed animal and spilled its "guts," which were comprised of other stuffed animals, across the floor. Great art, bad toy.
I like the idea but the execution is bad: ugly and uncomfortable-looking. It looks like a pile of trash...
It reminds me of that car ad where the guy throws trash out his car window and the guy next to him collects it all and then creates a giant trash tree made out of all the collected trash and leaves it on his car.
The tree is cooler.
Seems like a publicity stunt to me. Everyone is so appalled by it they talk about it. This guy is just hoping to get his name remembered. Nice try, Nick Demarco.
You people are a bunch of boring yuppies. It's not a perfect project, but I admire it for at least attempting to set a different curve than the your average dime a dozen green-washed product.