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\"emiliano<\/a><\/p>\n

Harriet Bell <\/a>alerted us to this beautiful candy wrapper chair and the story of how she found it…one thing leading to another in the course of a few minutes:<\/p>\n

Our friend Peter Davis just returned from San Miguel de Allende; knowing that I love handbags made from Mexican candy wrappers, he brought me three! \u00a0One candy wrapper in the bags looked weird, so we started poking around the web to identify it. And we found this amazing candy wrapper chair.Thought you’d get an improvised kick out of it.<\/em><\/p>\n

The gorgeous chair <\/a>designed by Mexican designer\u00a0Emiliano Godoy<\/a>\u00a0takes a very old and simple idea – weaving candy wrappers (which we remember doing as kids) into a strong “textile”, and EXPANDS it, literally. The large size squares and monochrome palette gives it a definite chic. We found a step-by-step how-to here<\/a>, and a video (below). We’re imagining scaling up the method to larger sheets of whatever cool paper-like material we find (magazines, high-end paper shopping bags…?…It might even be done with leather or some of the out-there synthetic materials you can find at fabric and art stores these days. You can drap and stitch it…Think of the possibilities for using this strong geometric weaving as furniture covering (of an ordinary wooden Ikea chair, perhaps), rug, tablecloth, satchel, room screen!!!!???<\/p>\n

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(Video link here?)<\/a><\/object><\/p>\n

via Harriet Bell<\/a> via Unconsumption<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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