Camo chair UU-Ella-0065
Frame: solid beech wood frame. The legs are covered with elasticated vinyl, sewn to fit like tights. Bottom-legs: glide felt screw
Fabrics: Front body: 'Como Fabric' by Ella Doran Studio, ocean plastics, layout, photographed and printed on Cotton Velvet. Back body: Grape vinyl (60% PL (terylene), 40% Pu) FR treated. Legs in Acid blue vinyl (100% Polyurethane).
Upholstery: the chair has been upholstered with traditional technique. Seat: cotton webbing, hand-tied coil springs, hessian, FR coir fibre and horsehair, wool felt, FR calico. Back: cotton webbing, hessian, recycled layered felt, foam, wool felt, dacron.
Bottom is covered with a plastic heavy duty debris netting.
Finishing: white tack roll, vinyl piping and multi-colour gim pins. Buttons covered with recycled plastic.
Dimensions: W 76cm, L 67cm, H 88cm, Hs 36cm
Price: £ 2,695.50 (10% off from 2,995.00)
Fabrics: Front body: 'Como Fabric' by Ella Doran Studio, ocean plastics, layout, photographed and printed on Cotton Velvet. Back body: Grape vinyl (60% PL (terylene), 40% Pu) FR treated. Legs in Acid blue vinyl (100% Polyurethane).
Upholstery: the chair has been upholstered with traditional technique. Seat: cotton webbing, hand-tied coil springs, hessian, FR coir fibre and horsehair, wool felt, FR calico. Back: cotton webbing, hessian, recycled layered felt, foam, wool felt, dacron.
Bottom is covered with a plastic heavy duty debris netting.
Finishing: white tack roll, vinyl piping and multi-colour gim pins. Buttons covered with recycled plastic.
Dimensions: W 76cm, L 67cm, H 88cm, Hs 36cm
Price: £ 2,695.50 (10% off from 2,995.00)
Designer Ella Doran has collaborated with Urban Upholstery for over 10 years, promoting and celebrating the circular economy and material re-use and re-design. Their latest project is Inspired by #MakePlasticGuiltless, featuring an abandoned chair from the streets of Hackney, it was deconstructed back to its frame and then rebuilt, on show during London Design Festival 2018 in The Old Bank Vault art gallery along-side a group of school children from Shoreditch Park School.
The back of the chair was deliberately left open to reveal and to expose the intricate craft and work involved in making the piece. The chair plays with a traditional Chesterfield buttoned-back feature, though each button is actually hand-made from plastic bags found in the streets. Plastic netting, found in tips was used as bottom layer, plastic tack roll from the old upholstery, has become a visible feature of the chair, and recycled wool was used to stuff some of the inner layers for extra comfort. The chair’s acid-blue-vinyl legs are supremely sewn to fit like tights.
The Upholstery textile design, ‘Ocean Clean-Up Camo’, is born from another collaboration, this time between Ella Doran and communications designer/environmental campaigner Sophie Thomas, which draws attention to the huge quantities of discarded plastic in our oceans, whilst also creating a beautiful, new fabric. Sophie and Ella created artful arrangements of them, which Ella photographed, creating a textile design, whose nature is only revealed under close inspection. The new fabric tells the negative back-story of plastic pollution with a message of re-use and hope.