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Fabulous chair from waste trimmings

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Ever wonder what you could do with your old jeans? This ingenious design has been created by Scrap Lab.

Their mission is to use materials which are other’s ‘left overs’. The off-cuts and scrap can be wood, metal, nylon, plastics, paper, foam and fabrics and are obtained mainly from industrial sources.

Scrap Lab have clear aims and missions which focus on both global and economic concerns as well as using environmental issues regarding using sustainable sources, by working closely with manufacturers to rejuvenate and re-use their scarp materials to create positive and dynamic designs. They believe their sources will provide them with a continuous supply of materials for them to continue their design activities.

This denim chair cover can also be unbuttoned and used as a wrap round blanket or folded into a neat square floor mat. Easy to remove from the frame and transport makes this design very practical.

As the country’s economic downturn continues we are seeing designers create the most ingenious and innovative design styles. Great ways of using unwanted materials and fabrics.

This denim chair cover look so comfortable and would make the ideal inexpensive seating to charm any modern homes interior space. Team it with dark blue curtains and a floor rug and you have a low cost, yet stylish and effective room style.

I admire Scrap Lab and other creative designers who have taken principles such as patchwork from the past, as seen in this chair design, and brought it into the 21st century with panache and confidence.

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Green design, environmentally-conscious design, sustainable design; whichever you choose to call it, it is at the forefront of the design world and the larger world alike. Government money and that from corporations is being allocated to finding new energy solutions.   Nearly every architect or designer’s website includes a description of their commitment to sustainability.  Although the terminology has reached main-stream media somewhat recently, the practice of sustainability has been around for some time. 

Re-use and re-purposing are the original green movement and the ultimate in sustainability. Scrap Lab, part of the architecture department at Kasetsart University in Thailand, has taken this belief to a new level, stating that “there’s no such thing as waste.”  Scrap Lab is utilizing leftover materials from industrial processes to create new products. Scrap Lab has designed and produced a chair of denim scraps, sewn together in a quilt-like fashion and assembled into a sling-back chair. The chair looks entirely comfortable and inviting, in both its form and materiality. “Through the recirculation of wasted materials such as scraps and off-cuts, energy and labor time will be saved and regained into the economic circuit. Renewed resources and valuable products induced and managed by Scrap Lab will increase economic return, continual employment and environmental benefits.” In a time where economic and sustainability issues are at the forefront of society, this is a chair you won’t feel guilt investing in.

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Scrap Lab (Sucata Lab) é uma equipe coligada ao departamento de arquitetura da Universidade Kasetsart, na Tailândia, que pesquisa e realiza experimentações, para descobrir como utilizar restos de materiais dos processos industriais para criar novos produtos.

São novas peças, de plástico, de madeira, metal e tecidos, como a peça aqui apresentada, fruto da utilização de sucata de denim (o conhecido jeans).

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It’s always better to craft something useful out of scrap and leftovers rather adding to these. None would ever appreciate it if these simply keep on piling up. Scrap Lab is such green scrap-art company that believes in recirculating the industrial waste. Based at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand, the designer firm blends professional research with deep analysis in suitably selecting material for re-fabrication. Majorly hitting an ecological plan to revive leftovers and fight environmental pollution, it indirectly has come up with unprecedented job opportunities as well.

What goes into the making?

Scrap Lab instills off-cut wood, steel, paper, foam, plastic and metals with succor and life. What separates this venture from other recycling undertakings is a direct relation to the manufacturers. It keeps a regular tab on the generated wastes out of various developments and ultimately comes up with some accurate and artful renditions. So, the artwork becomes aesthetic and functional too.

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while most designers are creating waste with their products,
scraplab is a collective of designers working to turn waste into products.
the initiative is based at kasetsart university in bangkok, thailand and works
with manufacturers and designers to reactivate manufacturing waste such as off-cuts and left-overs.

a key element of their process is their database of industrial waste that catalogs information on waste materials.
scraplab has an ecological mindset but also firmly believes in creating employment opportunities and creating valuable products through their process. here is a selection of products created by member’s of the scraplab.

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“Most industrial processes produce a crapload of scraps. Sometimes, like with metal and plastic, the dross can be re-smelted; in other instances, as with fabric, the cut-offs just go in the trash.

A company called Scrap Lab is making it their mission to alleviate that latter problem:

Scrap lab will be the driving force in reactivating and reanimating left over’s, off-cut and any kind of solid waste. The focus of Scrap Lap lays on the innovative recirculation of industrial produced waste. Scrap Lab’s concept contains the following advantages in terms of sustainability, economy, ecology and innovation:

Scrap lab operates a professional research and analysis database of industrial waste. It contains essential information for Scrap labs mission, such as properties, shapes, materials and compatibility to other materials.

Scrap lab guides manufacturers and designers by creating valuable products out of waste such as:

1. off-cut descending from traditional manufacturing process (wood, steel, paper)
2. waste of material caused by the imprecise production of material (foam, plastic)
3. moulds, utilized up to their lifespan (gypsum, steel, wood)
4. sawdust, descending from cutting and sawing (wood, plastic, metal)

The industrial sources of this kind of waste guarantee a continuous supply chain for any further activities of Scrap Lab.

Above is their chair made from denim scraps. Learn more about the company here.

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“Bangkok-based company Scrap Lab transforms manufacturing leftovers, off-cut and any other kind of solid industrial waste into these unique pieces of sustainable seating. 

The materials they work with include wood, paper, steel, foam, plastic, and various other metals.

With the recent rise in popularity of discarded clothing being refashioned into couture pieces and artwork created using found objects, furniture made from industrial waste is another excellent example of our global pursuit to become ecological combatants and ensure that as little as possible goes to waste.”