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Actually, I am not sure anymore about “vinyl records on stools” as announced in the introductory post, I am not sure about much in any case when it comes to this model:
Do the arrows indicate, the seat is rotatable? Which would make sense, why else would the seat panel be made from another material than the rest of the stool. Here´s the thing in Korean (the only country where it appears to be big) habitat:
No vinyl in this one. Here goes another image though that looks much like the guys …
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In the West, 95% of broken Monoblocs end up in the trash, which isn´t the worst thing: Polypropylene is a thermoplast and can be recycled easily if the trash is properly sorted. In other regions of the world, the price of a plastic chair often equals a day´s work salary or more, and people go to great lengths trying to keep the furniture. Below a short richly illustrated look at different approaches.
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More monobloc plastic chairs in, on top or some other way fixed to various motorized vehicles..
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An image (click to enlarge) Christian Y. Schmidt took in June 2007, when he traveled from Shanghai to Kathmandu along China´s equivalent to the US Route 66 – the national road 318. In the photo the bank of the Three Gorges Reservoir in Wanzhou, a city that largely descended into the reservoir when the water level rose. In Christian´s book “Allein unter 1,3 Milliarden” he describes the place and the atmosphere half-way through the process quite poignantly.
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I am not much into “funny pictures” of the slipping polar bear variety. There is however a few monobloc shots that would be entirely inconspicuous but gain subtly with a sign or writing. Click the preview image to see all seven photos. And do scroll down – I saved the best for last.
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You rarely see the monobloc plastic chairs in photo collections of urban decay. It is just too little a surprise to find it in abandoned homes, amusement parks et al. The mono´s natural expression of abandonment seems rather to be be overgrown with various organisms. Click on the image for a few unexpected examples.
