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Skin Collection by Pepe Heykoop
Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop has created this collection of furniture by covering an assortment of old chairs in odd scraps of leather.
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The leather offcuts are roughly stitched together, covering each chair entirely.
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Photography by Annemarijne Bax.
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The following is from the designer:
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Furnitures covered up in leather leftovers. The 25-30 percent waste of leather in the furniture industry triggered me to make something beautiful. Covers out of waste.
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This project is fed by leather scrap, turning it into random skin patterns, refering to cell structures and growth in nature.
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The furnitures used are existing, modified and therefore sometimes slightly seem to grow.
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Recycling old furnitures and leatherscrap into fairytale furnitures.
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Designed and executed by: Studio Pepe Heykoop
Materials: mainly existing chairs, wood, metal, foam, glue, leather
Size: different sizes
Year: 2011
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