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Chairs, carpets and blinds cleared from homes in the wake of deaths, divorces and bankruptcies form the raw material for these stools by Dutch designer Joost Gehem (+ slideshow).

The hundreds of thousands of deaths, divorces, bankruptcies and hospitalisations each year leave many household inventories without a home, says Joost Gehem of the inspiration behind his Transformation and Distribution Centre for Abandoned Household Items.

“You cannot imagine how cheap a complete interior can be and how much of it you can get,” he told Dezeen. “I began to see it as a material and I saw a little factory in my mind.”

Gehem found an advertisement for the clearance of a house owned by an elderly couple – the wife had passed away and the husband was about to go into a nursing home.

He bought up the whole interior and ground up carpets, window blinds, foam, textiles and a rattan chair.

The chipped remnants were then placed in a mould and pressed into stools.

Gehem is currently working on improving the process and a new line of products is planned for later this year.

Last week we featured a project to transform waste plastic picked up by fishing trawlers into chairs, while in 2008, architect Greg Lynn won a Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale for a series of furniture made from recycled children’s toys.

We’ve also published lots of stools, including one inspired by glass beakers used in science experiments and a set of narrow A-shaped stools that fit together to make a bench.

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Here’s some more information from Gehem:

As a consequence of the approximately 135,000 deaths, 32,236 divorces, 10,000 bankruptcies and thousands of cases of hospitalisation that occur each year, many household inventories are left without a home. If heirs and dealers have no interest in the household goods, they usually end up in the local dump. Joost Gehem views these leftover house inventories as raw materials. His Transformation and Distribution Centre for Abandoned Household Items grinds down furniture and turns them into new products. Your old inventory gets a fresh new start, in a new shape: the Centre infuses new life into the cycle of collecting and throwing away.

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Product news: books and magazines slot inside the deep cross-shaped notch in this table by designer Philippe Nigro for Ligne Roset.

Designed by Philippe Nigro for Ligne Roset, the Cuts table is made from moulded polyurethane and reinforced with a steel frame.

Deep folds disrupt the lacquered white surface to create four tabletops at three different heights.

Two years ago in Cologne, Nigro presented interlocking pendant lights and a set of bright yellow divans, tables and a foot stool, both for Ligne Roset – see all designs by Philippe Nigro.

Other Ligne Roset products shown in Cologne this year include a chair inspired by cooked spaghetti and an asymmetric desk with a bright yellow top – see all design from Cologne 2013.

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Here’s some more information from the designers:

Philippe Nigro loves to explore concepts in depth. For years now he has been working with Ligne Roset on the theme of intersections, interweavings and assemblies. He brilliantly demonstrated this with his Confluences settee (2009), and then his indoor/outdoor collections Passio and Résille (2011). In 2010, he blazed a new trail whilst playing with the concept of notches, resulting in the Inséparable footstool/table (2010), a concept which was later masterfully transformed into the Cuts shelving (2011).

In 2013, he develops that same idea of the notch, this time applying it to the low table: a flat surface is ‘disrupted’ by notches to create 4 distinct tops positioned at three different heights. The angulation of the two intersecting notches is 28°.

The irregular architecture of the low table thus obtained contrasts with the slimness (just 8 mm) of the single material and its immaculate whiteness to create a result which is more than appealing: the varying dimensions and differing levels of the tops are practical whilst the notches can be used as magazine storage.

Whichever of its each four sides it is viewed from, its contours are different yet always surprisingly light, like a paper aeroplane.

Low table in 8 mm thick satin white lacquered expanded moulded polyurethane, reinforced with a steel framework.

Width: 100
Depth: 100
Height: 15/23/30

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Product news: Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey have combined a desk, shelves and swivel chair to create a flexible workspace in a single item of furniture.

Designed for Dutch Brand PROOFF, the chair can be spun ninety degrees so the arm can be used as a side table and partition while reading, or a surface for desk-based work.

The seat is raised above the chunky base so it can move independently from the rest of the piece.

A shelving unit propped on two feet sit at one end and extends out past the seat so legs can fit underneath. Surfaces can be mixed and matched with shades of beige and bright blue.

The product was first shown at last year’s Super Brands London event during London Design Festival and has since gone into production.

Other designs by Studio Makkink & Bey on Dezeen include a shoe store full of seemingly infinite staircases and a house built from scaffolding.

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