Buckminster Fuller once said, "The difference between now & then when it comes to sourcing materials for building, is now they are on a higher concentration above the earth's surface than below." I am looking into a different approach to how we manufacture the items we use, buy, and consume. To me design is about having constraints & parameters, these are worked around to meet the end goal & function. The parameters I'm working with to design furniture are; Using already made items as the "raw material" by which through manipulation turning them into another item. That the process of manipulation is such, that the integrity of the original items material is maintained. And finally that the end result of the manipulation renders the original item no longer recognizable.
It seems that a big part of our inherent nature as humans is a desire for new visual stimulation in our physical environment….. It has less to do with the items we acquire being new in material as much as it has to do with them being new to us.

……The legs that are attached to one side of the bench and make up the shelf are composed of residential aluminum venetian window blinds. I have taken these window blinds, stripped them down to just the shade portion. The shades are then laminated and molded into shape using a similar process of how thin ply's of wood are taken and laminated together to make plywood.
The incorporation of these legs into the Chaboo bench is to exemplify the possibilities of taking the things that we have already made (window blinds in this case) and manipulate them into another item making them contemporary again.