As my prior post suggest, Rodrigo Alonso's Ewaste stools are too big for Brooklyn. And that's a good thing because in Williamsburg he'd be considered a hipster doofus. At first, we applaud a fashion-forward piece of furniture for geeky homes. Albeit, it will never reach the pages of the brooklyn heights blog. And indeed, you can get your own stool as a special order and you'll have to pay quite a sum of money for it. But were this to be a real sustainable product, we would be encapsulating e-waste in resin and making it virtually impossible to recycle, ever. Not a smart idea. "Epoxy resin is the single biggest industrial use of Bisphenol A. So the artist is taking stuff that is probably by now recyclable and making it unrecyclable by encasing it in poison plastic." Again, not great.
From the Chilean designer..."The idea behind N+EW isn’t the creation of a recyclable object, but the way to immortalize and to give a last use to objects that their only destination is contamination."
From the Chilean designer..."The idea behind N+EW isn’t the creation of a recyclable object, but the way to immortalize and to give a last use to objects that their only destination is contamination."
