WASTE NOT, WANT NOT - THE OPEN CHAIR PROJECT
As part of a sustainability project to reuse waste in the business, Bloomberg enlisted Jay and the team to create a new breakout space entitled The Orphan Chair Project.
This saw the young people involved in each aspect of the project from visiting the Silvertown waste facility, to designing and making the actual pieces. The chairs came from a collection of unwanted broken chairs, many of them originally part of a set of dining chairs or a pair of carvers. Designers James Plumb mentored the young people, getting them to think about ways in which Bloomberg’s waste could be integrated into these existing pieces, how they could mend and add to the damaged chairs. Picking apart cable and finding multiple-coloured strands inside each of them, the team took this as their primary inspiration and revisited traditional techniques of caning and embroidery. Over a 1000 meters of waste cable was used for this project.
“The space is fantastic and a real hub of creativity. The furniture is fun and embedding wires in to the furniture is very clever; out of the 6 projects we did this year, this one was the favourite with the staff, and gets used the most. It just demonstrates how recycling waste and repurposing items destined for landfill can be reimagined into beautiful design.”
ArtsCo - Consultants delivering project
