1-to-1 Conversion: Single-Piece, Reused-Wood Pallet Chair Dressing Your Home

August 26th, 2011 by Declan Pottinger

1-to-1 Conversion: Single-Piece, Reused-Wood Pallet Chair

They are so commonplace within industrial districts you almost dont notice them stacks of usable and broken pallets made of plastic, metal and wood, just waiting for someone to program them into something fresh and useful again.

Younger cousins to the increasingly-famous cargo container , the wooden pallet is used to transport things like furniture from place to place via ships, trains, trucks and fork lifts.

Using pieces from precisely one pallet per seat, this design was modeled after careful structural considerations, scale model testing and much thought about how to take the fewest steps possible from old to new uses.

Pierre Vede preserves the appearance of these ubiquitous building-and-transport blocks, modifying them minimally and adding a few off-the-shelf IKEA cushions to the chair as a finishing touch for human comfort.

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