Discarded chairs recall previous recollections in a extra beneficial approach
Seoul-based inventive design studio Chogokri has rejuvenated discarded chairs discovered all through Chogok-ri village in South Korea. The design crew collected items of furnishings that had misplaced their performance over time — a few of them remained in depressing situation, shedding their id fully. Thus, by way of the ‘The Youth’ venture, the designers sought to offer a second life to those chairs, sustaining the traces that testify to the passage of time.
broken chairs earlier than the rejuvenation
all photos by Chogokri
‘The Youth’ was born out of broken chairs
‘The Youth’ is a collection of objects that was reborn out of chairs that had misplaced their authentic perform and had been finally deserted. Their state was both damaged, pale, or rusted to such an extent that use was inconceivable. Apart from performance, Chogokri (see extra right here) aimed to deliver again recollections of those items which were piled up, pale, and rusted like their our bodies.
Accordingly, they eliminated fastidiously solely the elements that didn’t work and changed them with new ones made from coloured resin. This approach, semi-translucent blocks are weaved with the aged skeletons to reattach lacking or damaged seats or frames, while including a vivid trendy contact to the in any other case previous construction. ‘We thought that there might have been a time of glory even for the discarded objects,’ talked about the studio. The result’s a set of chairs that may move from hand at hand with out shedding their function, all of the whereas recalling recollections from the previous.
after regeneration
semi-translucent materials blends with the previous body
resin blocks fill within the lacking elements
serving as body
including performance and vivid contact