How did a team of Italian designers from 13ricrea produce creature comfort for the living room from old PVC nautical equipment? A German sculptor and his ‘Fat Chair’ were an inspiration.
“Joseph Beuys was a great artist,” says designer Ingrid Taro. ‘”He really pushed through a new concept about materials, the idea that nothing is trash. It’s a simple suggestion that nature gives us every day.”
It took exactly 13 meeting and a lot of talent from Ingrid, Angela Mensi and Cristina Merlo to recreate furnishings from industrial nautical scraps. Thus their company name: 13ricrea.
Rescuing abandoned plastic, latex and felt leftovers, the trio ‘’made the materials talk,’’ as Ingrid says, to create aesthetic and weather-resistant objects.
They ‘talk’ indoors and outdoors as benches, seats, puffs, armchairs, sofas and colourful screens.
This ecologically friendly furniture offers a surprising and creative opportunity to safeguard existing resources, and above all, gives a second life to materials that otherwise would end up being land-filled or incinerated.
“Let’s make dreams out of materials,’’ Ingrid says. ‘’Let’s give a chance for leftovers to live, be useful, even ironic.”
Chapeau, Mr. Beuys
