Gregorian, an Israeli design student took her wonky dean washing machine and uses the components as building blocks to create new products. She took a collection of sheet metal, steel bars, and stamped parts provided enough raw materials to produce three new chairs.
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The designer follows form for eco-friendly chairs’ design—the treatment of each chair was according to the opportunities that the material offered. The designs are aggressive, and maybe not the coziest, but many contemporary furniture designs aren’t.
Grigorian disassembled her broken washer and with the collection of sheet metal, steel bars, and stamped parts provided enough raw material to produce three new chairs. Function before form looks to be the main guideline and treatment of each chair.
- The Dramms Stool uses the machine’s central rotor as its base.
- The Buddy Armchair uses the washers enameled metal frame to make a wing chair.
- The Dorry Chair uses the front face of the washer and its distinctive porthole door as a backrest.
Approximately 60,000,000 washing machines are sold in the world, providing free materials that can be used to create forward furniture. Projects like this will require basic tools and metal working skills and her step-by-step video instructions can help anyone become a designer.
