PATCHWORK

The challenge: Design a chair. Use a minimum of 50% from a worn out piece of furniture that is not a chair. No materials used can be virgin. A table transforms into a chair – an easy chair.

Patchwork to stay is a commentary on our ‘to go’ and ‘on the go’ culture. Designed as an easy chair for stay and focus. A hang out, pull up your legs, be in the chair’s space with its high back creating a space in space of its own. A space for immersion, supported by the colors and textiles that promote mental well-being, daydreams, conversations and soothing the nervous system.

To see opportunities and beauty in worn out furniture, in things that are on their way out or onward. To stage a new and still recognize the old in the new, to preserve the former furniture, keep the memories, the nostalgia.

My Process

The metal frame is from a used IKEA table (Moment, 1985). It becomes the foundation of the chair. Everything is re-used except a few grams of metal and the glass table top. Patchwork in textiles – old industry textiles, tablecloths and napkins – plant colors with cochineal, walnut leaves. This encounter brought back memories of my childhood with my handicraft mother who plant dyed and sewed everything herself throughout my childhood.

The armrest is in Kvadrat Really 100% recycled and circular material made of cotton and wool – it can even be recycled 100% again.
A used foam mattress 80×200 – it fits perfectly into the table frame. The height and comfort of the chair depend on the foam mattress – foam is one of the hardest things to get rid of, as a rule, it is sent as small combustible. In Europe alone, 20-30 million mattresses are discarded every year – 2/3 are burned. Terrible when 80-90% of their constituents can be recycled.

“I didn’t want to find a worn-out piece of furniture and granulate it into oblivion. I wanted to preserve part of the furniture’s narrative and design.”

The metal frame is from a used IKEA table (Moment, 1985). It becomes the foundation of the chair. Everything is re-used except a few grams of metal and the glass table top.

I tråd med Verden, the amazing people; Liv, Olena and Melissa who embraced my idea and contributed with their expertise and execution. Women in a social-economic sewing workshop with seamstresses from very different backgrounds but common love for textiles and sewing.

Credits: I tråd med Verden, Morten Lyhne, Martin Hertz, UpCycl