Ring Around the Lounger
While the papa-san chair adds little to an interior besides nostalgic references to college crashpads, it's still a comfortable place to curl up. Designer Camilla Hounsell Halvorsen, a recent graduate of the Oslo National Academy of Arts, made a chair that turns the tiltable bowl-shape of the papa-san style into something worthy of a well-considered room.
The Drops Chair is a reused inner tube wrapped in recycled upholstery strips, modeled on the process of making pom-poms with yarn. The mummified rubber ring is not attached to its four-legged base so it can be adjusted to suit the user's position. Halvorsen keeps a sparse blog tracking her work, and one of her other designs—a bowl made from a lampshade wrapped in yarn—can be found at etsy.
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I particularly like the idea — suggested by the top photo — that when our cities crumble, this is the chair that we'll have left. In case we need to unspool it to make tourniquets or use the inner tube to cross a toxic river. That's creative reuse.
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Awesome!
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If the above chair is available, I want one so bad!
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great start. i cant' wait to see her blog grow. and by the way, etsy is the collest website out there as far as i'm concerned. (except for dwell...:) Anyway i did all my christmas shopping on etsy and everyone got a unique and fun gift. GO GREEN!
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