Hasta La Ideas

With all our recent talk of polypropylene composites, we thought we’d show you an interesting application of the stuff that you may recognize: Chris Kabel and Droog’s Seam chair and bench, from way back in 2007, is made out of the Pure stuff produced by Lankhorst.

Kabel, in cooperation with Droog, stitched the material into chair and bench shapes, filled them with sand to give it some body, then baked the whole thing in an oven. Then the sand was removed, as the heat from the oven had “set” the polypropylene into a fixed position.

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