Circular Furniture
The Adell chair by Arper
New eco office chairs. With a view to designing those much-needed home offices with soul, here are a couple of worthy candidates to think about.
I’m always on the look out, inspired by any new piece of furniture that manages to succeed in supreme style and eco credentials. These new ideas caught my attention from the latest Virtual Design Festival 2020.
The Arper Italian furniture brand have created the Aston Chair (a play on the ergonomic human form classic, the Arne Jacobsen egg chair) and the Adell, a pleasing pebble-shaped easy chair, both made of post industrial waste plastic with customisable features and main structures made from 88% recycled plastic for a circular zero-waste process.
The Astor by Arper
In ‘Design for the real world’ by Victor Panek, he describes the ‘two pillars of ecological and social responsibility’ that design today must be based around. A circular theory, which means we need to make products that enable us to keep resources in the system as long as possible and at the end of that service make sure they can be re-made.
Most current furniture will not fit through the machinery of incinerators because of complex layers and mixed materials, so as a consequence, 22 million pieces a year in the UK alone end up in landfill.
Adell Chairs with shell terrazzo texture and partial upholstery
These chairs are high on my list of investments and pack punch for any home and office. These chairs are not just heavyweights in the eco friendly category, but because the design has been so thoughtfully considered, from the concentric tree ring texture, to the shell-like terrazzo effect in a range of soft natural colours.
The chairs are customisable too, with optional wood or metal legs, indoor or outdoor flexibility, partially or completely upholstered in Kvadrat Danish recycled textiles. Each component is easily separated into individual parts and recycled at the end of its life because of the absence of glue in the whole process.