Quite often I get asked if there is monobloc chairs made from recycled plastics. To my best knowledge the answer is: No, not exactly. To make a sturdy monobloc chair you would need high-quality polypropylene, the very thin piece would all too easy break if material is not exactly and consistently specified. However, those chunky Adirondack-chairs and some benches could be made of recycled material, since the parts are many times thicker than the rather airy mono.
The issue is the legs. With shorter, appropriately designed legs, one could reckon, you …

Danish artist´s Jens Haaning´s (*1965) work is not exactly much about Monobloc chairs, still it may tell one or two things about the object. Haaning has worked extensively on globalization related issues. For his work “Chair Exchange” (2004) he swapped all the chairs from the café terrace of Sydney´s Museum of Contemporary Art for those from the restaurant Phuong Thao on Do Son, Hai Phong in Vietnam. The Vietnamese got some ..

I just don´t get it. Israeli designer Tal Gur showed this (what? prototype, conceptual, esoteric, provocative?) chair/object/work recently and writes ..

Three outdoor installations, using though not necessarily endorsing the Monobloc; from Seoul, Montreal and Melbourne.

While it is ever getting harder to make original and innovative statements with and about the plastic chair, it makes ever less sense since most everything is said and done. You may risk failure – or you may just copy..

This post is bit for the records – since many of these works are well-publicized elsewhere -, but not only. There´s something definitely new here even for the Mono-cognoscenti among us, scroll down.
The common denominator, in any case, is material: All below works do not alter the Monobloc´s shape, but use off the shelve original non-designs. Most are made from one single new material, which would be boring – if it wasn´t for various twists being applied to ..