Hasta La Ideas

Every woodworker, carpenter or furniture builder has dreamt of making something completely out of wood scraps and cut-offs, even if that stained poplar wouldn’t match the ash board and the birch ply. You just think of how cool it would be, and you wonder what it would look like.

Well, Piet Hein Eek has actually done it. A lot. (See our coverage of his show last year in Milan at Spazio Rosanna Orlandi.)

The Eindhoven-based designer makes chairs, stools, benches, beds, tables, bowls, cupboards and cabinets all from scrap wood (presumably not his own cut-offs, unless he has the world’s largest woodworking shop). The attendant prices do not place these objects within the reach of the common person; I’m posting word of the objects here primarily so you can see what they look like.

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