Dutch designer Joost Gehem has found a different resource of material to create stools—dead people’s belongings.
Gehem’s collection comes from many places: estates of the deceased, repossessed homes and places with unwanted belongings.
“Many household inventories are left without a home. If heirs and dealers have no interest in the household goods, they usually end up in the local dump.” Said Gehem.
Instead of the local dump, Gehem buys the unwanted items and takes them to his studio called the Transformation and Distribution Centre for Abandoned Household Items.
Gehem first grinds or stuff the materials to fill a simple three-legged stool mold, then use an industrial achine to apply pressure until they take form of the mold.
Some may see such process as a green effort but Gehem simply turns things you aren’t ready to throw into something more useful.
"The process comes from some pretty intense life events. Things that happen all over the world. What I find important is that I can relieve the owner of an object in a fitting way and create a new, usable product. [It’s] a life cycle. That’s my first priority."
[via Joost Gehem Design]