Win a Limited Edition Translation Armchair made out of recycled PE.
A good example that with some fine tuning, normally wasted materials can be transformed into fully functional furniture that does not have to hide its origins.
Recycled plastic bottle caps that have first been shredded into smaller pieces (70% of the finished product, and also made out of PE) are mixed with some neutral PE (30%). This makes the seat not only recyclable, but largely made out of a recycled product.
For the first time, a rotomolded piece of furniture in production is made with a very high recycled content.
In this very case, the reuse of the bottle caps serve a second purpose. These are collected by a Non-Profit Organisation ( “Les bouchons d’amour”, litteraly translated “the caps of love”) that uses a 100% of its revenues earned from reselling the caps to buy material for disabled people in France and abroad.
The transformation process makes it visually slightly reminiscent of the graphic work done by designers like Allessandro Mendini on the Proust Armchair and Mirror (1978) or some of Ettore Sottsass work in the early 1980s.
Register in order to participate in this unique draw to win one Free Limited Edition of the Translation Armchair designed by Alain Gilles for Qui est Paul?, a value of 580 euros (+/- USD 900), a limited edition of 100 pieces.
You can either register through the website by clicking on the following link until September 2nd: Qui est Paul?
or while on the stand of "Qui est Paul?" during the "Maison et Objet" fair in Paris from September 5 to 9.
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It is too bad that it is a limited edition. It is one of the most acceptable direct re-cyclings I have seen for a long long time. It actually looks better than the plain roto-moulded colours. This is the way to go...let's collect caps!