Glass and plastic is a common material in the home design, which is often regarded as a relatively
inexpensive material in the home design. This material is easy to get, and looks like the lack of
the kind of advanced texture.
However, if someone used the waste of plexiglass plastic to create a kind of art like a little
luxury chair, the idea becomes bold and interesting.
Kim Markel is a designer from the United States, she used the waste plexiglass made a series called
Glow home. This plexiglass is more precisely divided into plastic on the material - it is a glass
-like plastic, also known as plexiglass plastic.
Markel's Glow series includes a number of products from chair to table, hand mirror, cup and so on.
They are not only good-looking, but also because they are made of waste plastics and have
implications for how to make efficient use of waste resources. Kim Markel in creating "beauty" at
the same time, but also inspire people began to rethink the rich possibilities of furniture design.
Markel's work looks totally natural, the whole is made of plexiglass plastic furniture, it is
difficult to find details of the details of the connection between the details. Markel uses resin
to bond these materials and takes a lot of time to sand them with hand sand and polish to make
these translucent stained glass plastic shiny, and they look like candy as delicious.
The design of household items is not Markel's expertise. Prior to the design of this series of
glass plastic furniture, she worked in Baltimore and Rhode Island in environmental and public
policy work. "I like policy-related work, but I also like the world of art and design," Markel said
in an interview.
Environment-related work experience, to make Markel's ideas and other designers a little different.
She does not start from the ordinary material, but how to waste the material to re-use, to create
a good thing.So, Markel quit her work on the environment and public policy, back to a foundry work.
Where she studied a quick course on practical art from Jeff Koons, Frank Stella and Matthew Barney.
With her experience at the foundry, she returned to the Beacon area of New York, creating her
personal studio and started making household items. Markel spent a year calling an abandoned
plastic dealer and experimenting with a variety of plastic materials until he found the plexiglass
plastic she wanted, from scrap plastic pallets and bottles, and even Glasses of the frame.
Thanks to the experience of the foundry, Markel created a unique work mold for herself, filling the
mold with the waste glass plastic that was cut into small pieces so that they showed the shape of
the household items. Taking into account the different size and function of the furniture in the
structural design of the material requirements are not the same. For the strength and opacity
required for glass plastic, Markel produced a specific proportion of each piece of furniture, which
she changed by adjusting the pigment and the resin binder.
Markel's test results are quite stunning. The Glow home series debuted at New York's Architectural
Digest Design Show, which was well received for their fruit candy. One of the most eye-catching chair series, also won the ICFF New York International Contemporary Furniture Fair design award.
Now you can also buy Glow series products on Kim Markel's official website. It is worth mentioning
that this series is made of waste materials, the price is not cheap, priced from 130 to 1900
dollars range. This is the most popular chair will be 1900 US dollars, is still out of stock status.
