Moving to a smaller house often means having to
discard old furniture and getting new ones that fit the current space.
Not exact matches
Volunteers did a lot of painting, waxing, cleaning, and
discarding of
old equipment and
furniture.
In the Remake Lab, students and teachers upcycle
furniture,
old tires, and other
discarded materials, transforming
old dresser drawers into pet beds and selling them to raise more funds for supplies.
Whether created with scrap metal,
old furniture or
discarded paint, sustainable art has environmental, economic and social implications — even if, for the artist in question, the choice of materials is more of a practical one than one driven by a spirit of environmental awareness.
The artworks — known as Capharnaum — are painted on anything that has been found
discarded in the apartment's rooms, including disused pallets, cardboard and
old pieces of
furniture.
In sculptures made out of an array of
discarded factory materials and
old office
furniture, the Portuguese artist Nuno Sousa Vieira explores opposites: consumption and usefulness versus refuse and obsolescence; the mass - produced versus the handmade; function over form versus form over function.
Apart from
old furniture found in the streets of Barcelona, the group had
discarded materials from Camper to work with:
old signboards, shoe laces, and leather offcuts were turned into wall coverings, curtains, lampshades and seats.