Here's a frame made to display the wood waste generated during its own production, created by Japanese designer Hironobu Yamabe.
The product is part of Tokyo brand E&Y's new Edition Horizontal collection - see Max Lamb's chair for the range in our earlier story.
Here are some more details from the designer:
[short by short] design by Hironobu Yamabe
For edition HORIZONTAL / E&Y
Space and objects: when you start thinking of these two it is surprisingly interesting... And when those objects are unleashed from function and utility the atmosphere and your imagination shall be freed.
It contains the sawn wood which is produced when the frame was manufactured. Consumer can display or use as an instrument of something.
Material: wood
Size: W.317 x H.386, t=30
Manufacturer: E&Y (http://www.eandy.com/)
Release: winter, 2010
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| Scrap wood furniture by Amy Hunting |
A limited edition of one million by Sighn |
Framed by Stuart Haygarth |
It's PHENOMENAL! It's ASTONISHING! It's STUPENDOUS!
Mind-boggling genius
Where is the rest of the tree ?
A visionary.
Where is the hamster?
Where is the design?
This is terrible. It's a conceptual plagiarism of the artist Ashley Bickerton's work, in which he created a large raft with a metal compartment made only so that it would store all the waste generated during its own manufacturing process.