Trash to Treasure: Rubber Hose Chair

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This rubber hose chair can be made primarily with found or reclaimed materials.
This rubber hose chair can be made primarily with found or reclaimed materials.
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Cutting diagram.
Cutting diagram.
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Side view diagram.
Side view diagram.
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"PlyDesign" by Philip Schmidt offers 73 distinctive and inexpensive DIY designs for all living spaces, ages and levels of craftsmen.

Anyone looking for versatile, modern and inexpensive furniture has to look no further than PlyDesign (Storey Publishing, 2012) by Philip Schmidt. Schmidt, a former carpenter, offers toys, games and furnishings suited for everyone. Each design is crafted using plywood, or a number of other readily available sheet materials. The following excerpt is an upcycle of reclaimed materials into this rubber hose chair.

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Rubber Hose Chair

Designed by Will Holman

This piece comes from an architect and designer who makes a lot of great stuff with junk — things like chairs fashioned from road signs, lighting using traffic cones, and tables constructed with cardboard tubes and greenhouse glazing. All are perfectly functional, human-scaled pieces, but none seems more inviting than the Rubber Hose Chair. “It’s like sitting on a bed of rubber bands,” says its creator. Like many of his other works, this chair can be made primarily with found or reclaimed materials. Just hit up any carpenter, mechanic, or tool hound you know for an old air hose to upcycle, and you’re halfway there.

  • Published on Feb 14, 2014
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