Comments on: Skin Collection by Pepe Heykoop http://www.dezeen.com/2011/05/19/skin-collection-by-pepe-heykoop/ architecture and design magazine Mon, 20 May 2013 12:02:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Joe http://www.dezeen.com/2011/05/19/skin-collection-by-pepe-heykoop/comment-page-1/#comment-791924 Joe Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:29:18 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/?p=129030#comment-791924 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 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

]]> By: qwerty http://www.dezeen.com/2011/05/19/skin-collection-by-pepe-heykoop/comment-page-1/#comment-768488 qwerty Mon, 23 May 2011 13:35:35 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/?p=129030#comment-768488 getting tired of this guy.... getting tired of this guy….

]]> By: polly http://www.dezeen.com/2011/05/19/skin-collection-by-pepe-heykoop/comment-page-1/#comment-768401 polly Mon, 23 May 2011 10:34:49 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/?p=129030#comment-768401 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. 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.

]]> By: dan http://www.dezeen.com/2011/05/19/skin-collection-by-pepe-heykoop/comment-page-1/#comment-767976 dan Sun, 22 May 2011 17:30:56 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/?p=129030#comment-767976 FABULOUS! Why not re-invent / re - design disused furniture and scrap materials ? FABULOUS! Why not re-invent / re – design disused furniture and scrap materials ?

]]> By: Vincent http://www.dezeen.com/2011/05/19/skin-collection-by-pepe-heykoop/comment-page-1/#comment-767004 Vincent Sat, 21 May 2011 11:13:28 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/?p=129030#comment-767004 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! 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!

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