Sandwich Chair
Chair built from offcuts.
In the UK 1.6 million tonnes of bulky waste – 42% of which is furniture is sent to landfill.
I was keen to experiment with laminating some lower quality woods together to create a strong material, that was also visually striking.
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So the strong but slightly ragged structural ply, and the newly exposed, delicate and brittle rings of the pine boards are fused.
Individual Pine boards where cut so size, and sandwich’d between two sections of 18mm Structural plywood. The original idea was to use a thinner ply, but this is what made itself availiable at the time.
Materials used:
Old Pine Wardrobe
18mm hardwood ply offcuts.