Rubber Stool by h220430 Design Studio

Rubber Stool is a stool with a unique design and made of rubber, created by Japanese design studio h220430.

Rubber Stool by h220430 Design Studio

The following is a description from the designer, “Regarding the rubber, which has been widely used for a long time, a research and development of rubber is moving forward with a progress of the material science. Now, the artificial synthetic rubber becomes popular and plays an active part in this field. On the other hand, a demand of natural rubber keeps expanding since natural rubber is better than synthetic rubber in terms of its physicality and cost. This enlarges a large scale of rubber tree planting, and environmental destruction due to a deforestation become worse mainly in Southeast Asia. Although to use recycled rubber is proposed as one approach to improve this situation, this approach is not developed. We designed a bench created by the recycled rubber to take this situation into consideration. Although a framework of this stool is simple with just bending one piece of rubber plate and holding legs with bolts, a form of this stool is unimaginably elegant and comfortably cushioned with elasticity of rubber. This stool can be stored in a small space by rolling up when it is not in use. We hope that this Rubber Stool is widely used as one of the usage of recycled rubber and it would be a trigger that people realize the circumstance of deforestation for making rubber.”  Via[...]

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Photography by Ikunori Yamamoto

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