Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop has created this collection of furniture by covering an assortment of old chairs in odd scraps of leather.
The leather offcuts are roughly stitched together, covering each chair entirely.
Photography by Annemarijne Bax.
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The following is from the designer:
Skin_collection
Furnitures covered up in leather leftovers. The 25-30 percent waste of leather in the furniture industry triggered me to make something beautiful. Covers out of waste.
This project is fed by leather scrap, turning it into random skin patterns, refering to cell structures and growth in nature.
The furnitures used are existing, modified and therefore sometimes slightly seem to grow.
Recycling old furnitures and leatherscrap into fairytale furnitures.
Designed and executed by: Studio Pepe Heykoop
Materials: mainly existing chairs, wood, metal, foam, glue, leather
Size: different sizes
Year: 2011
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looks like grasping at straws
he is very original!
I have never been a big fan of Pepe's work, but for some reason I tend to like this project. Nice.
Does the office chair still go up and down? Otherwise you have taken the function out of it.
'refering to cell structures and growth in nature'
Give me a break. I want to see the designers studies that support this description. I doubt very much that this idea rose from a study of cell structure.
Its just furniture covered in leather pieces.
there is only one piece of furniture interesting here.
Nice textures and interesting materials use. It's a shame he only uses it to cover an exciting chair. Wondering to see what happens if he designed the chair himself!
FABULOUS! Why not re-invent / re – design disused furniture and scrap materials ?
Well nothing has been redesigned or reinvented here. It is just some furniture that has been covered in leather scrap.
Also i'm not sure whether scraps are the case. If you look at the two chairs with logs connecting them and the first image of the chair, it looks as though there are quite large pieces of leather used. This makes me think that these are not scraps and are just cut up to make it look this way.
If the pieces were not cut up and joined in this fashion you may be able to use the scraps for something a little more usefull. The excessive seams only perpetuate waste.
This sort of work that claims to be saving/reusing materials but ultimately creates useless objects, can be quite irritating.
getting tired of this guy….
This is NOT leather scrap! He cuts up whole skin into little pieces. I've seen him doing it. Maybe he got inspired by the numbers of scrap, but he is definitely not using it. This project lacks integrity