Vintage Furniture by Bokja

Colored upholstered vintage furniture by Bokja. The couch above is dubbed Swivel Talia and is made of some vintage lakii from central Asia mixed with a decorative texture, suzani while Below, the Swivel Chair tries to bring back the 60s with its embroidered vintage fabric from Tajikistan.

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Repurposing Chairs and Fabrics

An upholstery team recycles and reinvents discarded chairs and fabric scraps.

Being green comes naturally to Richard Pariello and Sharlott Lewis—they’ve been upcycling old chairs and fabric scraps for years.

The duo salvages unwanted and discarded chairs and recovers them in patchwork kaleidoscope patterns at Designs by Richard Pariello in Payson, Ariz.

“Richard’s sense of design and upholstery skills, and my patience and sewing skills come together to create our one-of-a-kind Kaleidochairs,” Lewis says of her and Pariello’s creations. “It’s a labor of love with all the time that goes into them.”

The two labor for 80 or 90 hours per chair, to be exact. Most of that time is spent sewing the fabric pieces together. Fabric scraps from previous projects and discarded samples from fabric stores are saved and pieced together in patterns inspired by quilt blocks. Each chair includes more than 100 fabrics sewn together, all topstitched, which adds to appearance and durability. The resulting custom-made, recycled fabric is then used to cover unwanted chairs Pariello and Lewis rework from wherever they can: thrift shops, curbs or third parties.

“A lot of the chairs are pretty bad,” Pariello says. “Some aren’t structurally good, but the foam rubber is good. Everything’s recycled.”

Pariello and Lewis both enjoy working on the Kaleidochairs for the love of the trade and to make good use of materials unwanted by others.

“We’re pleased to know that these chairs have another chance to be enjoyed,” they say. “We’ve been green since before it became necessary.”

(Source: upholsteryjournalmag.com)

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Funky Chairs by Tobias Juretzek

I really think these chairs are funky.I like how in most cases when recycled garments are used they are deconstructed and then used but in this case the garments are used just as they are. I think it creates a great effect and really messes with your mind. You would’t think a chair of clothing would support you.

German designer Tobias Juretzek combines recycled clothing with resin to make his unique and sturdy “Rememberme” chairs, each with its own story to tell.

Each chair is made of 13 pounds of clothing that’s soaked in resin and then pressed into a mold, resulting in the final form. Playing on the element of nostalgia, the clothing is taken from friends, second-hand stores and even from Juretzek’s own wardrobe

The concept behind the chairs: “What often intends to be forgotten in wardrobes and boxes, now is brought to light again. Worn-out clothes, still kept for emotional reasons, here draw a characteristic marking on the chairs. Like a kind of message in a bottle the furniture contains memories and a sense for stories revives in us. The chairs create a conceptual frame, lead the message to a new expression and present themselves in a particular way, giving another perspective to things in general.

rememberme chair wants to achieve more than pure functionality. Instead of being a dumb servant, it tells an individual story. Every chair is unique through its material and gets its own expression. The characteristics of the clothes thereby convert to a language. Clothes carry numerous adventures and stories. The chair transports these to a new expression. This illustrative exposition invites the spectator to exciting stories”.

(Source: treehugger.com)