14 DAY TRIAL // Most efforts aimed at making the furniture in our homes more environmentally-friendly typically center around promoting the use of wood coming from sustainable forests.
However, one designer came up with a rather innovative idea: using textile leftovers to make green-oriented stools, which both provide people with a comfortable resting place, and promote recycling.
Apparently, Bernardita Marambio B. Pecas developed these rather funny looking stools by taking pieces of cloth from several factories in Santiago, Chile, and making them bind together with the help of a biodegradable adhesive.
There is no need to worry, as the salvaged textiles this designer used in order to make these stools would have been thrown away anyways by said factories, so no precious shirt or skirt had to be sacrificed in the process of manufacturing these new seating options.
Inhabitat even reports that the Chilean clothes industry is to be held responsible for producing significant amounts of textile leftovers, which is why it comes as good news indeed that someone finally came up with a way of minimizing the losses and putting these pieces of cloth to a better use.
According to the same source, Bernardita Marambio B. Pecas explained her work on these stools as follows: “The high percentage cotton mix is blended together with a biodegradable adhesive where it maintains high structural strength after being sealed with greenwash.”
As was to be expected, the fact that textile leftovers are used in the making of these stools allows manufacturers to really play with colors and patterns, much in the same way in which fashion designers do when creating their outfits.
Truth be told, it can be argued that these new pieces of furniture look a tad like something taken out of “The Flintstones” cartoon, but as long as their making revolves around recycling and safeguarding the natural world, odds are that many green-heads will seriously consider purchasing one.