These amazing grass armchairs will transform your landscape design
These amazing grass armchairs will transform your landscape design
This “living furniture” kit will allow you to grow your own garden furniture
Looking for a unique and sustainable addition to your landscape design?
A Kickstarter campaign for a company that wants to sell natural structures to make armchairs made from earth and grass, is in its final days.
TERRA! has already exceeded its EUR15,000 (USD16,800) investment goal on the crowdfunding platform, which means the company will receive all the donated funds required to start the business.
The company will offer biodegradable structures made from cardboard which enable users to create a chair that grows with the natural environment. When the cardboard structure is covered with soil and grass seed, over time it will grow to become a grass-covered armchair.
The creators explain on Kickstarter:
“TERRA! is not a finished product, is an idea; we provide the cardboard frame, the main ingredient, the dirt can be found everywhere on our planet. The armchair will be born in your garden and becomes part of your landscape.”
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The structures are not new. The designers work initially appeared in 2000 at the Milan Salone Satellite and was subsequently selected for the XIX Compasso d’Oro as a ‘Product for the Community’ Award in 2001. They were also shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Triennale in Milan, and then in 2012 at Biennal of Belo Horizonte, Brasil.
Despite this initial success the designers decided the product was not sustainable as a business and abandoned it, however after receiving some latent demand they have renewed it with the help of Kickstarter.
“Why now? Why re-produce the TERRA! project in 2016?” the campaign reads. “Because the world has changed, because we believe that now more than ever, design production needs a sustainable approach.”
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Source: Property Report