Nine Stories Makes Furniture From Car Panels
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 07.29.08
In this era where clunkers may be collected and SUVs may go straight off lease to the scrap yards, Furniture designers and manufacturers Nine Stories may be on to something: they make furniture out of car panels. "we are exploring the vast landscape of the american salvage yard to collect textures and colors that ony years of sun and rain can create."
Terrific slide show of how they work below the fold.
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"Each roof and panel is chosen for its unique character, and carefully removed from the unused substructure in such a way as to preserve the original factory finish. Over 70% of each piece in the series is made up of this otherwise wasted material, so it is both for the obvious environmental benefits as well as for aesthetic reasons, that we find the process of "reclaiming" at the center of this new body of work." ::Nine Stories via ::Haute Nature
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Cool. Anything that saves car parts from going into a landfill gets a thumbs up from me.
Merely as an aside: nobody "landfills" a car; the elements they're using would, at least in the US, be recycled as quickly as possible.
http://www.recycle-steel.org/cars.html
The only people who throw away old cars are people who don't know what kind of money they could get for them.
Note: this doesn't mean the tables are a bad thing. I'm simply trying to make a minor side-point.
Nice Tables, I wonder if it is cost-effective to use them for façade cladding?
Mmmm...
Granted those cars would be recycled, however capturing the material and reusing it before its recycled is the better option from an energy use stand point.