Bentu Design creates Wreck furniture from ceramic waste
Chinese studio Bentu Design aims to highlight the amount of waste produced by the ceramics industry with its Wreck furniture range.
The collection includes side tables, lamp shades and benches, made from a mix of ceramic shards and concrete. Rather than crush the ceramic completely, the shards are visible in the surface of the final products.
To make the furniture, the concrete and ceramic mix is cast into moulds and left to set. A subtle colour is applied to compliment the visible fragments of bowls, cups and even Buddha statues that are visible in the pieces.
The studio, which was founded in 2011, conducted an in-depth investigation into the amount of waste created by the ceramic industry in the town of Chaozhou in eastern China.
Chaozhou is the biggest ceramics production base in the world and creates around 70 per cent of the daily-use ceramic commodities used globally. Bentu noticed that globalisation, and an increased demand for ceramic pieces, had driven a wave of new factories in Chaozhou. Although this growing demand creates jobs and opportunity, it also accelerates the amount of waste produced.
Recycling plants are now replacing some of the city's factories, dealing with ceramic waste not only from China, but from all over the world. The majority becomes mountains of unusable fragments, some of which Bentu has repurposed.
Bentu hopes that by creating its furniture from this discarded material, it can highlight the value that can be found in this waste.
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